Installation/Setup

There are two parts to the installation of the Seidon 240M, the waterblock/pump and the radiator. I should point out that unlike all of the competition the Seidon is a little different. Everyone else is working with Cool It or Asetek as an OEM, that makes the installation of each of them to be about the same typically. From what we can tell Cooler Master went their own route here, or had a completely custom design made for them. That means that the Seidon uses a mounting system much like what we have seen from all of their heatsinks. For our testing we installed the Seidon 240M on our test bench, but to get an idea of the installation of the radiator we also played around with it in a few cases sitting around the office.

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Installing the Seidon meant sorting through the mount collection to find the parts needed for our installation. In our case, we are installing onto a 2011 socket cpu so the backplate wasn’t needed for example. With everything picked out, I installed the Intel mount onto the pump/water block itself and was ready to go. From there It was just a matter of attaching the adapters to the motherboard, putting thermal paste on our cpu, and screwing down the pump/ water block. It was a little weird not having thermal paste pre applied to the pump, we normally see that in this situation, but we were able to go with the paste of our choice. Cooler Master also includes their own paste as well, and you get more than enough for multiple installs.

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Installing the radiator was just about as simple. You have to line up the two fans and then run the long screws through your case, the fans, and into the radiator to hold everything together. We did try out installing the radiator in the Fractal Design R4, its top panel had mounting holes for a top radiator mount already so installation went smooth.

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Overall I wasn’t sure what to expect because of the unique mounting design compared to Cool It and Asetek systems, but it went better than expected. My biggest complaint is actually with the full chrome hardware with the rest of the pump being all blacked out. The hardware almost looks like an afterthought when I know that wasn’t the case.

 

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