Thursday, 6 October 2011

Problems Installing the Corsair H100 in an NZXT Phantom Case


When I installed my H100, I ran into a few problems that I thought I should post.

The first issue was securing the bracket to the back of my already installed motherboard, I have the Asus Rampage III motherboard and attaching the backplate wasn't as easy as NZXT try to make it. There is a hole in the back of the case but 3 screw holes are still covered, to get over this I loosened off the board and put the plate in place.





The second issue is with the ajustable screw slots on the plate. When the double ended screws are in it is not a tight fit, the screws hit a brass ring that comes out further than my board and this means the back plate is loose. This could have ment that pump would not be sucure to CPU. To get over this I used 4mm washers at the back of my board so it is sucure. He is an image to explain;




So the washers push the plate back and secure the screws and the pump tightly.

The next problem was with the radiator, in the Phantom case there is a 200mm top fan that can be removed to mount double raditors or left in which there are brackets to mount the radiator below this 200mm fan. Because of the depth of the radiator and the fans with the radiator my Ram was obstructing one 120mm fan. My Ram is 53mm tall, so with the top fan, rad and rad fans there is not enough room. I saw a video in which someone cut some of the cooling fins from their Ram so it fitted. To get over this my self I more simply bent the brackets for mounting the radiator to a diagonal to clear the Ram;