It Didn't Fifty-fifty Leak One time!

For our build we ditched the hardware nosotros typically use for testing calculator cases equally information technology wouldn't have worked in the Core P5. Moreover, testing the Core P5 is a little pointless as the example comes with zero cooling out of the box, plus it's an open-air chassis. Therefore, cooling operation and operating book are going to be entirely dictated by your hardware choices.

It would be an injustice to exam a case so heavily focused on liquid-cooling without such a setup and Thermaltake agreed, thus supplying its RL140 D5 liquid cooling kit, which was subsidized with the RL420 radiator and three 140mm blue LED 'Riing' fans.

For the sake of the photos nosotros started with a blackness/crimson themed build by installing the MSI Z170A Gaming M7 motherboard alongside the Core i7-6700K, 32GBs of G.Skill'due south Ripjaws 5 DDR4-3000 retentivity, and the Asus Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II. As well installed was the WD Carmine Pro 4TB hard drive and so the Thermaltake liquid-cooling system of course.

With the carmine/black build done nosotros moved on for a blue/black theme using the three 140mm blue LED Riing fans.

This time we installed the Asrock Z97 Extreme6 motherboard with the Cadre i7-4790K, 16GBs of G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3-2400 retentivity, the Gigabyte WindForce R9 290X and the BitFenix Fury 750 watt ability supply, which measures simply 160mm long.

Installing the liquid-cooling system proved how the Core P5 has been designed with this type of cooling in mind. There's a great petty represent the pump, though the pump tin can also be clipped on to the Core P5 using arms that hold the reservoir. Behind the pump is a pocket-size hole that lets yous neatly run the power cable through so information technology can't be seen.

The installation process went well with the only hiccup existence the fact that the three rear-mounted drive cages need to be removed forth with the back up bracket to access the rear side of the motherboard properly and much of the cable direction. This was made more annoying by the fact that the three.5" drive cage on the front end side too needed to be removed to unscrew the panel on the contrary side.

The acrylic window looks nice enough, though we did often find it hard to remove. The thumbscrews can't be tightened using screwdrivers and bluntly don't demand to be. Withal, we establish multiple times that despite doing them upwards without tools, getting them undone again was extremely difficult. This is due to the fact that the chrome stand up-offs don't perfectly line upwards and have to exist ever so slightly forced into place, this added friction makes unscrewing the stand-off caps extremely difficult.