After removing the hard drive cage I am faced with the lower rail it was sitting on. Luckily it was easy to remove with a few turns of the screwdriver.
One of the two radiators. Yes. It's like a car. I know.
Radiator with fans underneath it (I'm holding it upside down).
Well, shit. This little metal piece in the center here (circled in red; click on the picture to blow it up) won't let me slide the radiator into position for the screw holes beneath. Unfortunately I can't remove this with a screwdriver, so I'll have to go out and borrow a dremel tool from Home Depot, tomorrow, and show it who's boss.
It's just the lower mount for the lower front fan, which makes it useless to me, since that is where the bottom radiator is going to be, so permanently removing it won't be any loss.
I went to work on the top radiator, but I ran into problems up there, too. I planned to put fans on both the top and bottom, since there is a separate compartment for the upper fans (later pictures will reveal). However, the bottom fans touch the motherboard, so they aren't going in. I'll be moving them into the bottom radiator (which originally was only going to have two of four possible fans attached to it.
Watercooling is definitely moving into mainstream, but these two issues I've had with mine show that it's still not quite there. Which is fine. I enjoy puzzles.
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