Quote Originally Posted by charles_h View Post
hmmm... It only takes about 10 mins to fill and fully bleed all the air. How much faster would it be to invert the block do you think? I always thought the in and out designations on the block were more for flow design than trapped air.
Here's what the D-tek manual says
Apply high quality thermal paste such as Artic Silver to the CPU core. Place the water-block down until it rests atop the CPU. Make sure
the waterblock orientation is that in which the outlet barb is placed at the top when the computer is upright to help bleed any air bubbles
in the block when filling. This also positions the “D-TEK” label upright.
But like i said, if you have bled the system correctly, I dont see why there would be a problem. Im going to go out on a limb and say Charles has enough WC experience to fully bleed a loop And I dont see the orientation effecting the flow very much at all either.

Your orientation gives the cleanest look, and i think you should go with that It's a murderbox, amirite


Sorry to hear your troubles with the EK block, Charles... At least your project snag is better than a missing I/O shield!