CoolIT ECO Liquid Cooling System Review
Installation
Contents
Installing ECO is as simple as the installation of most air coolers. You just need to put the appropriate backplate on the solder side of the motherboard, put the block on the CPU and fasten the four thumbscrews. Unfortunately, CoolIT ECO didn’t come with any thermal compound. During our benchmarking we used Zalman ZM-STG2 thermal paste. In Figure 8, you can see the block installed on our motherboard.
Figure 8: Block installed on the motheboard.
After installing the block, you just have to put the motherboard back to the case and then attach the radiator and its fan on the rear part of the case. Note that this is a very simple task if your case has a space for a 120 mm fan on its rear panel, but if it doesn’t you can’t install it properly. In our test system the radiator was touching the block, but we could see it was not forcing the block.
Figure 9: Installed in our case.