Removal and cleaning
Removing all the existing parts from the computer is no particular feat. At best, if I had already had to open this loop for removal, then draining the water would also have required some concentration and muscle work. However, I found something milky in the coolant despite assurances to the contrary from the previous owner of my Polar Bear. The specialist must have had something greenish inside – he didn’t mention anything like that to me when asked.
Nevertheless, I slowly saw more and more cream-green deposits in the water labyrinth of the ice wolf, so that it was clear to me that I have to rinse everything intensively. I would have liked to have completely disassembled the ice grinder and would also have liked to go through it with cotton swabs – but the old version with the many seals is said to be notorious when assembling. For the sake of simplicity, I treated the future internal and external parts separately until the final integration and connected the large pump separately.
For cleaning, I got myself 5 liters of distilled water and have always refilled the existing part in the bathroom and then let rinse so ne half hour. I also heated the water to a good 40 degrees, but that was then cooled down again quite quickly by the two Radis, the 360 and the 420 – the two can do that quite quickly. All the work was done by me alone, because I just had storm free. In some places, however, it would have been noticeably easier with two people.
Reconstruction and assembly
I wanted to be able to place the external radiator about 1 m away from the PC case, which on the one hand makes trips to the balcony easier, but on the other hand also provides a little more room to maneuver in the office. Although I had bought a hose extension set with 3.3 m length, I was aware that it could be tight in the end if I could not use any of the hoses used internally so far. Thus, I have disassembled and rebuilt also carefully made sure that I correctly separate all previously installed hoses and do not destroy. Worked.
I had already taken rough measurements at the beginning, which internal hose lengths I need. The sticking point here, however, was that I remove three existing ALC quick disconnects and then I can still connect everything the way I want. I especially didn’t want to end up not getting anything connected during final assembly and having to buy another 3.3 m of hose because of missing 2 to 3 cm. During the conversion, I also had to consider at which point I would lead the hoses out of the housing and then still have enough length on the outside to bring the hoses together again for the option of the purely internal loop.
However, this is a bit tricky when a purely internal loop goes out once and then goes back into the housing at the same place. But otherwise it is not feasible in a meaningful way, because in an easily accessible place must be the new quick couplings to connect internal and external part – and internally I did not want to have the transition.
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