CoolIT Systems

I don't mean to be harsh, but maybe you should stick to aircooling if simply adding a reservoir to one of the biggest
cases on the market seems like rocket sciense. You shouldn't even try plumming a custom Boreas + Koolance Exos
loop if you managed to fry your PSU by simply trying to hook up a MTEC controller. Save yourself from alot of headache
and let somebody else do it for you.

I have just over 3" between the ends of the GTX295 cards and the front of the Boreas, and 2" between the tops of the cards and the side wall. I have no bays available. The supplied "new" pump fits between the Boreas and the video cards, leaving me ~2"x2" for a rez. I haven't found one that fits there, nor above the MB unless I remove the 2 top fans. To use that space means also removing the fan retaining grill, leaving me with a large hole to fill. Ok, I can cut a piece of acrylic or metal to go there and mount to that. The 3 available drive bays are full. Do note that CoolIT don't put a rez in their setup either, and most of the pictures I've seen of modded rigs end up with the Boreas outside the case. Rez or Rez/Pump suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

As far as frying the PSU, it isn't fried, and the shorting didn't occur while connecting the MTEC. The short occured when trying to connect pins from the pump to the MTEC's pump power connector. Since the pump's power connector was a 6-pin connector with 2 wires, 2 blanks, then 2 wires...clearly only 2 wires are being used to power the pump. No combination of 2 wires caused it to start, and some combinations shorted the PSU. The Silverstone SST-1000 I am using is very forgiving that way and continues to work just fine.

Perhaps I used the wrong phrase when I said "rocket science", but trying to figure out which 2 of 4 wires on the pump should make it run without any documentation and no way to open the case of the pump does seem harder than it should be. I don't see how anyone else is going to be able to do anything but trial and error.

If this isn't the forum to come to in order to learn how to do it right, then where would you suggest?

Cheers,
Russ

I have the boreas setup in my Lian-Li case but its the 2010 case and i still had to mount my reservoirs on the back of my case. At this point i am actually happy with the location because it makes adding fluid easy. here is a link to my photobucket with some good pictures to give you an idea of my setup. Also i got my reservoir from www.frozencpu.com

smg.photobucket.com/albums/v41/liquiddragon/computer/

Mike

Could you add a picture of your setup, might help with giving advise ? Im by no means a pro in these matters
though I have been into watercooling for quite a while. I myself use a single slot reservoir in my Lian Li V-2000.
Meaning it only takes a one 5.2 slot and doesn't protrude far out of the slots, Swiftec micro res is easy to tuck away even into mATX cases etc.
This forum isn't the best place to ask advice in my opinion, too little viewers and kinda slow paced. Good non the less.

PS. excuse my english, it's not my native language.

Link to Swiftec's microres

www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.ph...mp;products_id=24649

Link to the one im using.

www.aquatuning.de/product_info.php/info/...g-Slot-In-Black.html

Thanks Hewi. Kinda fun trying to find the actual size of that Swiftec Microres...everywhere just says its the same size as the original, and with that discontinued, its hard to fine that size. I did, eventually, and its 4"x3"x1.5". I could find a space in my case for it, but only near the bottom of the loop. I figured if I went that route I could just leave extra tubing on it and lift it out and place it on top of the box when filling. So thanks again, that one would work.

Meanwhile, thanks to CoolIT I have a fully functional original Boreas. While I want to get a rez in it so I can have an easy way to replace the pump, I've decided to put off my water cooling exercise until after the GeForce 300's are available. Thanks again.

Cheers,
Russ

Good to see it fits, there are even smaller ones out there but im not sure they are availablein the US. It's gonna be more dificult to bleed your loop with the
reservoir in the bottom. I'd try to squeese the res so that it's before the pump in the loop and higher makes life way easier, but the method you described will work aswell. If you go with the Koolance Exos unit later on I'd suggest using quick disconnect fittings and using some sort of splitter to add the Exos into your current loop. The possibilties are endless I just changed from my boreas back to a 480GTX radiator...and now im pondering if I'll hook up my Boreas to that....

Edit. a quick pic showing my old waterloop & a Boreas with quick disconnects, just vision the boreas to where the 480GTX radiator is
loop order is the same.