STEP 3: PREPARING YOUR WATER BLOCK
1. ATTACHING STANDOFFS. Apply small amount of thermal grease around mounting
holes and place acetal standoffs (thickness 2,5 mm) so the holes are concentric.
Thermal paste provides enough adhesive force for standoffs to stay in a place.
2. PLACING BLOCK OVER GPU. Place the motherboard on the inverted water block or
vice versa and attach it with enclosed screws as shown in step 4. Make sure that
mounting holes are aligned.
STEP 4: ATTACHING BLOCK TO MOTHERBOARD STEP 5: ATTACHING BACKPLATE TO MOTHERBOARD
1. MOUNTING THE BLOCK.
Tightening the screws beginning around northbridge (please use
washers). Do not use too much pressure on screws, because
motherboard might bend and either cause bad contact with water
block, or break a connection on the board. Afterwards attach two
standoffs (2,1mm thick) around mosfet area and place thermal pads on
chips.
Use M3x12 DIN965 screws in order to attach backplate to motherboard. Screws go
into full board block. Backplate provides better contact along mosfet chips, thus block
performs better.
6. POSITIONING FITTINGS AND CONNECTING TO WATER CIRCUIT
Attach the liquid cooling tubes and connect the water-block(s) into the cooling circuit. EKWB recommends using high flow fittings with the EK-FB R3Gene series water blocks. To
ensure that the tubes are securely attached to the barb/fittings, please use hose clamps or an appropriate substitute. The use of an algaecide is always recommended for any
liquid cooling system.
You can use any hole as an inlet/outlet hole.
STEP 7: CHECKING FOR CONTACTS
Temporarily remove the water block to check for uniform surface contact between the block and the components. Note the pattern of contact on a piece of paper. Then repeat
steps 3 and 5 to reattach the block applying more or less pressure to the areas where you have found it necessary. Also please note that warranty label on copper side of
block doesn’t void warranty on material if removed. It is simply a proof that block has been leak tested.
Nonetheless EKWB highly recommends 24 hour leak test prior powering up system!
REQUIRED TOOLS AND MOUNTING SCREWS:
scissors
philips screwdriver
2 screws M3x8 DIN7985
2 screws M3x12 DIN965
M3x12 DIN965
Place thermal pad (0,5mm thick) in
order to cover all marked chips.
All
disclosures,
notices
and
warranty
conditions
are
being
written
on
the
back
of
the
box.
Released
on
28
th
of
September,
2010.
2,1 mm standoffs
M3x8 screw
Washer
Fitting/barb
