AMA Aragon 900

Installation

Test Rig:

The first job is to cut the tubing into four lengths and to do this you really need to look at your case and see how much length is needed for each part. I chose to use all the tubing as I was installing most of the setup externally.

I also chose to set the kit up before attaching the water block to the motherboard and CPU in order to make sure there were no leaks beforehand.

For the connections, once the nozzle is screwed in, the tubing needs to be pushed over it – I found that this was quite tough and so dipping the ends of the tubing into a little warm water made it much easier to push them on. Once this is done, a clamp needs to be pushed over the nozzle too in order to hold the tubing in place and prevent any leaks.

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To do this the clamps need to be widened in order to move them up and down the tubing – for me pliers seemed the easiest way for this particular process.
Overall, I would say that the connection process is pretty good and not overly complicated.

Ok, so the kit is now all connected up and it’s time to leak test – I recommend putting a towel down first! Pouring the coolant in is easy but you need to make sure that it at least goes through the pump or else once you turn the power on, nothing will happen as the pump will just be pumping air.

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You will also need to keep adding coolant once the power is on until the entire loop is full and then leave it for a few hours to see if there are any leaks and to also let the air bubbles out.

Then just take out the motherboard and put the backplate behind and screw the water block into place (make sure to use some thermal paste of course).

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In the P183, the radiator was too wide to be installed internally and so I chose to mount the radiator and reservoir on top of the case as there was plenty of tubing to allow for this. I would have cut them shorter as they are clearly longer than necessary, but I plan to incorporate the reservoir and radiator inside at some point – with a bit of modification, so wanted to leave as is for now; who knows how much I might need.

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