Category5 Technology TV - Installing the Thermaltake Water 2.0 All-in-One LCS

Installing the Thermaltake Water 2.0 All-in-One LCS

S05E39
June 19, 2012

Robbie and Hillary go a little over-time with a realtime installation of the Thermaltake Water 2.0 liquid cooling system in place of a stock CPU fan.

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This episode is sponsored in part by: Eco Alkalines, Garden Gate Farms and Cordery Electric.

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Robbie Ferguson and Hillary Rumball present from the Category5 studios in Barrie, Ontario.
Greetings to new viewers.
Send in your Viewer Postcards.
Hillary was in an all-girl band recently.
{play 10:16}Viewer Questions
Viewer Question: I'd like to be able to control my computer fans in Linux. It's easy in Windows but I can't find the settings in Linux. Any suggestions?
Obtaining lm-sensors' fancontrol and reading up about how to use it in the forums.
Viewer Comment: Thanks for answering my question about having no sound on my Ubuntu system—your answer fixed it for me. I had to reinstall Ubuntu because VirtualBox had all my settings greyed out, but no problem.
VirtualBox prevents hot swapping virtual hardware.
Viewer Question: I created a site using the div tutorial you gave on Episode 245. Is there a way to set that so the text will be scrollable within the div area, and stay within the area?
Grabbing Lorem Ipsum text from lipsum.org.
Making a div support scrolling text using overflow:auto;
{play 22:17}Top Stories from the Category5.TV Newsroom.
Some thoughts about our hydro in the studio and how wonderful it is to have it well done during a power storm.
{play 31:28}Feature: Taking a much closer look at the Thermaltake Water 2.0 all-in-one liquid cooling system with CPU waterblock.
What sets the Water 2.0 apart from other LCS systems - no having to refill. Ever.
Grounding yourself by touching an unpainted area of your "plugged in" (grounded) computer case.
Removing your stock CPU fan to replace it with a more efficient waterblock.
Cleaning the thermal compound from your CPU left over by the old CPU fan.
Replacing your CPU cooler mounting hardware with the Thermaltake Water 2.0 bracket.
Installing the water block on your CPU using the provided mounting hardware.
Robbie missed a step in the instructions. But no big deal; he can fix it.
Take your time, be patient and gentle. that way if things don't work out quite as you'd planned, you can easily fix it.