XSPC Adventure

[Tetters]

All,

 

The very decent and fine Mrs Tetters bought me the XSPC Raystorm 280 kit to replace my faithful old Corsair H75 this Christmas. After a little wait for it to arrive, the installation was eagerly jumped at.

 

http://imgur.com/oYJEfka

 

There are a few things that XSPC do well, product quality and effectiveness and installation instructions being a couple of them. Following their instructions really lead to an easy install,

 

http://imgur.com/F5a2R2W

 

The install went like a dream, way easier than I thought it might be but there was one big issue that I wasn't expecting. The tubing is quite stiff and I kind of messed up the angles its sitting at, so the tubing set-up isn't as neat as I would like it to be. it works fine for now, but I am tempted to replace it in the summer with hard line and make it really neat.

 

The  single bay reservoir is really small, the reason I went with this is because it was on sale and I figured its a great way to get into custom loops. Now its up and running, it does a great job. The pump is a tad loud in that you can hear a faint hum coming from it but the fans are completely silent (currently set up on a pull configuration). My next steps would be to go to a bigger reservoir and better pump, which would solve that issue I am sure. The initial filling was a bit of a pain given it can hold only a teardrop of water but once I got used to cycling the power every one second or so as it drained so fast I got the loop filled. I found that once I got water running through the rad and into the block, the rest of the filling was pretty simple. Now its working really well and it didn't take long for all the air bubbles to work their way out of the loop.

 

http://imgur.com/ZZUrNZf

 

All in all, I am chuffed to bits with the loop, but being me, am already planning on expanding it as soon as I can justify the cash.

 

http://imgur.com/8cMqUld

 

Cheers All

 

T