Installation
I have to say … this isn’t Bitspower finest hour. They’ll need to look into this. Using the backplate provided, which was meant to be compatible for all current/mainstream Intel processors … I found it quite difficult to mount it on the Gigabyte GA-Z270X Ultra Gaming motherboard. There was 1 or 2 resistors on the back of this motherboard that was in the way of the backplate. I had to so some fine cutting on the backplate using a Dremel so that the it wouldn’t foul the resistors on the motherboard. So who’s fault is it … CPU water block or motherboard? I say motherboard!
Apart from that … everything else was plain sailing. Well pretty much … until we had to do some hard tube bending. Those bends were NOT easy to do … let me tell you!
The whole process of installing the hard tubes and compression fittings, was made difficult by adding our GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card with a GPU water block. My fault really. But I really like challenge 😛 Hahaha!
Coolant added to the loop
Now that we’re all set, it’s time to do a quick leak test. See the video above. I love it when everything just works first time!
We complete the loop by adding some UV blue concentrate, to give the coolant a nice blue color.
Not that we’re all good with the fittings, the hard tubes, the coolant and the leak test … it’s time to get some benchmarks done to record some temperature readings.
