Cooling

Thermaltake Water 2.0 Performer Review

 

Photos Part Three: Installation I

We’ll start off with the mounting kit:

water2Pro-cooler-mounts-Bagged

 

water2Pro-cooler-mounts-unbagged

Confused yet? There are a good number of parts, but the actual process is pretty straight forward.

 

First you take the little metal nubs and put them in the bracket, the holes are clearly marked for which socket they’re for.

water2pro-mounting-pegs1

 

water2pro-mounting-pegs2

 

water2pro-mounting-pegs3fullyInserted

The white bits are the backing for double sided tape that will hold the bracket to the motherboard if you want it to. Personally I don’t, as I expect to be testing other coolers on this motherboard and could do without having to remove the tape.

 

Not using the stickytape makes installing the cooler trickier as you need to hold the backplate on, the pump in position and start a screw at the same time. Speaking of the screws, they’re next.

water2pro-mounting-backplatInstalled

The black plastic screw holders snap onto the upper bracket in one of two positions, depending on whether you’re using the Performer on a 775/1155/1156 setup or a 1366/2011 setup. Again, they’re marked. Then you push the thumbscrews through, there is one set of screws for LGA2011 that screw directly into the mounts built into the CPU socket (nice!), and another set of screws for all other sockets. They aren’t marked, but it’s obvious and the instructions explain it. You can see the instructions for assembling the parts I just described in the picture above.

Once you have all that, the bracket clips to the pump and you’re ready to install!

water2pro-mounting-screwsReady

 

water2pro-mounting-mountsOnPump1

 

water2pro-mounting-mountsOnPump2

The intake fan screws to the radiator with one set of long screws (and no washers), the other set of long screws (with the washers) is used to screw the radiator to the exhaust opening of the case, with the exhaust fan sandwiched in between.

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