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Installing Maze 3 Waterblock?

Gunslinger08

Gunslinger08

Lifer
Does anyone know where I can get some instructions for installing a Maze 3 waterblock? Dangerden sucks for customer service (real bad), and I can't seem to find anything on google. I'd greatly appreciate any help.

Note: They also sent me a Geforce 4 block, when I specified a Geforce 2/3 block.. therefore making me wait another week (took them 5 days to ship my order in the first place).

Thanks,
Josh
 
Just follow the Maze 2 Instructions. I would suggest tightening the nuts diagonally, two at a time, alternating to the other two.

As to the customer service, I have always been very pleased. Perhaps they are experiencing growing pains.
 
Originally posted by: joshsquall
So the block is suppoed to sit on the socket? It looks like it's impossible for it not to.

Josh
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Huh? It sits on top of the CPU.


<--- Has a flare for the obvious.
 
be very carful, one side of the block is a little bigger, i ran into this problem, the edge of it was sitting on the socket lip and the temps hit 82C !!!!!!! cpu still works fine, so i took it off, and switched it around, installed winxp fine and ran usdm monitor, says everything checks out fine, so it sits right on the cpu with nothing sitting over the lip and now it idles it sits at 38-40 depending on room temp.

btw i also replaced the plastic screws and nuts with metal ones so that there is no give to it, and it always sits in the right spot- just take the mounting stuff to a local hardware store and have them find you the stuff.

i'd suggest doing this also, i found when using vinyl coverd tubing, that it has a tendency to slightly bend the screws and the threads on the screws.

so this is how the screws are set up

from bottom to top

locking nut at bottom, then a rubber washer then it passes throught the motherboard, then the block, then another rubber washer, then the plastic one they give you then a spring, then another plastic washer, then a metal nut

do that for each screw
 
I've got it running nicely now (not with the system up, just the watercooling). I had a leak in my radiator (poor drilling skills to blame), but I fixed that with 2 coats of JB Weld. I had 2 small leaks (about a drop every 5 minutes), but they seem to be going away with some adjustments of the hose clamps. Now I just need to run it for a few hours to get all of the air out, and then install all of my stuff into the case.

Josh
 
Originally posted by: joshsquall
I've got it running nicely now (not with the system up, just the watercooling). I had a leak in my radiator (poor drilling skills to blame), but I fixed that with 2 coats of JB Weld. I had 2 small leaks (about a drop every 5 minutes), but they seem to be going away with some adjustments of the hose clamps. Now I just need to run it for a few hours to get all of the air out, and then install all of my stuff into the case.
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If you do not have a resovior (sp?) then the air has no where to go. It will never leave the cooling system.

 
I have an air trap that I built in.. the highest point in the system. I'm not dumb enough to think air just disappears. 🙂

Josh
 
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