PROGRESS! I didn’t get the Thermochill radiator that I was planning to use for this build, but what I was able to get was a Feser X-changer 360 radiator, which is marketed as a “Thermochill Killer”. What better way to test this claim than to put it up against the Skulltrail system.

Here\'s the Feser One X-changer 360 rad installed.

Here you can see it installed in the bottom. The cabling has also been tidied up substantially down there now that I have a radiator in. Everything needs to be tucked away perfectly to keep the cables out of the fans.

Cable management from the back.

Here’s the cable management from the back. You can see the both of these Noctua fans have a clear path to the other side of the case. The 3rd fan is exhausting right into the intake of the power supply, then directly out of the case. I thought there might be cause for concern having the hot radiator air going into the power supply, but the exhaust from the power supply is quite cool, even under full load.

All water tubes filled, but still needs some finishnig touches

All of the Tygon tubing is full of Feser One black fluid and green UV reactive zip ties are being used on all the tubes to ensure that they do not slip off. There is still some fine work to be done, such as splicing the power cords for the two cathode kits so that they will both turn on and off with the same switch.

I also need to go get some blue UV SATA cables from home. Intel, in their infinite wisdom only included 4 SATA cables with the Skulltrail motherboard when there are 6 ports, all of which are being used in this system. Fortunately I have some extras at home that I’m willing to part with for the sake of my customer. Otherwise he’d end up with mismatched cables, and in a system like that, that kind of thing is unacceptable.

I also still need a RAM cooler for the FB-DIMM memory. I had a CoolIT one on there before, and it works great, but I took it off out of curiosity to see how hot the memory would run.