Now that the mother-board and the thermoelectric cooler are sitting pretty in our Thermaltake Armor case, I stuffed some Mushkin DDR400 Redline series into our nF4. On the other side of things, I like the fact that the thermoelectric cooler was a bolt in solution. A no brainer to install, took all of about a minute.

Here we get a glimpse of the configuration and what its going to be the start of a kick ass cooling system. Once we installed the mother-board, I stopped and sat in the office chair starring at the case and new thermoelectric cooler and decided this case is going to get drilled and tapped to accept the RadBox and radiator assembly.

The 120 mm fan with the mirror skull shroud is going to be part of the RadBox and radiator assembly. I am going to drill out two 0.500" (1/2")  pass through holes, to allow the copper pass-thru pipes to run through the case allowing us to installed the RadBox and the radiator on the back of the Armor chassis.

I essentially measured the distance from center to center of the radiator spigots and then inserted the radiator on into the RadBox and penciled in the drill points, then I just fired up the Makita with a 0.500" (1/2") carbide bit for steel and managed to get some decent holes for the task.

Well the holes aren't the roundest I have seen, none-the-less, I cleaned them up with a 10 mm round file and deburred (filled down rough edges) the holes, making them a little more round than what we see above, those are roughed in.

Now that I am confident the holes are matched up properly I assembled the radiator with the pass-thru connectors and used two pieces of 1-5/8" ClearFlex 60 I cut with a very sharp pair of household scissors made by Fiskar, after sizing the tubes, I added the worm clamps to finish off the installation.

This is the RadBox, radiator, the copper pass-thru connectors and the custom length tubing I cut to make this a more personal configuration. Once I got the radiator secured to the RadBox, I worm clamped the pass-thru assembly and proceeded to knock this portion of the install right out.

Here you have it, the external radiator assembly is ready for the rest of the tube circuits. The copper pass-thru connectors are lined up under the 120 mm fan. The external radiator, RadBox, and 120 mm blue LED fan are all part of the assembly which fastens the entire kit as we have here.

Starting the tube circuit at the radiator pass-thru connection and the inlet spigot of the thermelectric cooler, I measured the proper length of ClearFlex 60 for this connection and cut off a section and made our first connection.

I decided at this time to figure out where we are going to plant the MCP655 pump assembly and we decided on this location. Thanks to the pre-drilled floor of the Thermaltake Armor case I was able to bolt this directly into place with out having to drill the holes, they lined up perfectly.

The next circuit will be to the second radiator that is part of this kit, I took a six foot length and attached it to the remaining copper pass-thru connection and measured off by eye-balling the length needed. I decided to give this cut a little extra length so we can curve the tubing into a position that will best suite our circuit configuration. The second rad is going to be located at the front of the drive bay area and two secure the radiator I will just pressure fit some left over styrofoam and pack the radiator into place.

Now the second part of the tube circuit is complete and right about this time you can see why we installed the pump when we did, this helped us get a better idea of left over space and allowed us to wrap the tubing to suite our goals.

Since we got the pump installation out of the way, its time for the third part of the circuit to be integrated into the system. I will now measure a length of circuit that will loop back to the second radiator that is stashed inside the front drive bay area as shown above.

Moving right along after I connected the loop back to the second radiator, I found a home for the Switech 5.25" drive bay reservoir. Now that we have the reservoir in place I measured out the tube circuit length that will connect the loop running from the thermoelectric cooler to the reservoir. The tube configuration is looking real nice and is easy to install once you put things into perspective.

Now the last circuit to complete the entire loop is the pump to reservoir connection. I cut the last piece of ClearFlex 60 and completed the entire watercooling circuit as suggested by Swiftech.

Once the tubing circuit was complete, I installed the worm clamps to position and tightened them with a flat head screw driver and went over every connection several times making sure every clamp was safe and secure. Now we are done, this is the entire water cooling circuit installed and configured to our liking. We can now move onto the next phase of installation - The Meanwell dedicated 320 watt power supply unit.