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Installation
The installation was pretty simple. The one juggling act was with the temporary removal of the motherboard in order to install the back plate which resides underneath CPU. Once the back plate and water block was installed, the rest of the installation was a snap. Of course with our case the 80mm fan mounts located on the back of the case were specific to this case as the had a bracket snapped the fan into place.
Before the installation of the Mini Aquagate 80 showing your run of the mill
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After the installation of the Mini Aquagate 80.
Here is a nice close up of the radiator and water block in the background.
Testing
After the installation we ran the machine through a few benchmarks. We played a hours of Counter Strike and Battlefield 2 and all the while check the temp and the pipes running between the block and the radiator didn't go over 87 degrees F. I did over clock our P4 3.0GHz to 3.4 GHz and did notice radiator or pipe temp to change even the slightest. Though the pipes running between the two seem to have a pretty thick wall, so how accurate of a reading we were getting is questionable, but on the other note the machine is still running today w/o any issue.
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