First timer Fathom cooler advice

Shrikeh · 19 Oct 2013 at 21:13

Hi,

So I took the jump and ordered my components, including the Fathom all in one cooler. Having unpacked it, it looks great but I have a couple of questions

1) The sticky plastic on the bottom of the block has been removed. Wh would this be ? I thought it was there to protect the bottom plate

2) I can see some very large airbubbles in the tubes. What is the best way to remove them ?

Thanks in advance for your help

Bart_Hunt · 19 Oct 2013 at 23:00

About air bubbles.
As far as I know Fathom package includes spare cooling fluid, so you can add it to the loop.
There is a stop fitting on top which you can use for that.
You will need to have the fathom runing on power from psu and not mobo tho, read watercooling guide here on forums about removing air bubbles - it have great tips on that and there isn't much difference between fathom and custom loops. Just treat it as pump/block/res combo.

Avenged7Fold · 19 Oct 2013 at 23:09

It is like any custom loop but easier, since it is fairly compact.

Have the pump running and tilt the radiator into different positions to make sure air has escaped the radiator. When you see the reservoir at the CPU block emptying due to air finding its way there from other parts of the loop, turn the pump off and top up the loop using the fill port. Repeat as needed.

To get the pump working without all your components being powered on as well, short the green cable with any black cable in the 24pin motherboard connection, using a bit of wire or a paperclip. Then just switch the PSU on to get things running!

Shrikeh · 20 Oct 2013 at 09:59

Thank you for the advice .. I really appreciate it.

Re: shorting the green and black in the mobo connector. Can it be any black or does it have to be a specific one ?

Also, I can see the connector for the pump/block is a small 3 pin. I can't see a connector like that on the PSU (Corsair 1000w) so is my only option to power up the mobo after all and then connect it to the fan connector on the mobo ?

*Edit*
I found the adapter in the link below. I can use this to power the fan directly from the PSU? Once it has been tested would I continue to power it using this connector or do I plug the connector from the block into the mobo instead ?

http://i40.tinypic.com/2ykc386.jpg

thanks

Avenged7Fold · 20 Oct 2013 at 11:14

Have never used a connector like that. you can short the green wire with ANY of the black wires either side of it.

StonedPenguin · 20 Oct 2013 at 11:16

Or use 1 of these

Shrikeh · 22 Oct 2013 at 13:36

Just wanted to say thanks for the help

I shorted the green and black pins on the mobo ATX connector and then used the attached adapter to power the pump outside the case.

The adapter comes with the Eisberg block and has a 5V 7V and 9V choice of leads. I am using the 7V at the moment. This is a good compromise between noise (I can't hear the pump now) and performance (1 degree difference compared to running at 12v).

FYI - If anyone else has this adapter. You only need it if you don't want to plug the block directly onto a 12V mobo fan socket.

All running nicely now at 30 degrees idle and 58 degrees load (i7 4770K clocked to 4.3 ... for now)