Installing the head

Right, time to install the head. This was very simple.  I added an armaflex ring to the head that was supplied and pushed it onto the cpu with the mounting bracket going through the 4 bolts that hold on the back plate, adding a spring and butterfly nut to each bolt to secure it down. Once in the right place the armaflex ring is squashed down onto the board insulation making an airtight seal.

Powering the unit up was very simple, a kettle lead in the back and a Molex to power the rear fan of the unit then flick a switch, waiting till the unit hit -10 before turning on my pc, this took about 15-20 seconds. After hearing a lot of people saying phase is very loud I was surprised by the units silence; no louder than the 3 80mm antec fans I use to cool my motherboard with.

Let's do a little overclocking

I started over clocking my cpu to the most I could get and running 1mb pi runs to add to hwbot later, peaking with my E8500 @ 9.00 seconds.  I did well for my first attempt at phase cooling so I decided to change cpu's to do this.  I had to wait for the cpu to hit room temperature to avoid condensation in the socket area.

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Unbolting the hold down and lifting off the head of the unit I removed the chip by pushing over the armaflex  and inserted the 2nd chip making sure all insulation was kept intact, then adding some Ceramique to the new chip re-fitting the head then  was off on my benching again.