[Guide] Go Custom With The Cooler Master Eisberg Prestige!

Usually when you go custom liquid cooled you need a pump, reservoir, radiator, block, fittings, tubing and screws but with the Eisberg you only actually need tubing, 4 fittings and a radiator for a basic loop because the pump, reservoir and cooling block are an integrated unit. What I am doing differently is adding a reservoir into the loop gaining me more liquid volume and of course, better looks. You could go and do it differently after reading this guide. You could for instance use 2 radiators, a reservoir and add a gpu block. The pump on the Eisberg has 2.2 meters of head pressure and can churn out 400 litres an hour so you could in theory add quite a lot to your system before requiring another pump, not a bad unit indeed.

The Plan

How do I plan out my system? I hear this a lot from the guys who ask me on facebook every day and the first thing I ask is what case do you have?

Here with me today I have a LD Cooling PC V7 case. By no means a cheap case but the spec for water cooling is very desirable. I chose the 280mm/420mm radiator version because I like lots of liquid in my systems and large fans. Reason being that the more liquid you have the longer it takes for the liquid to get warm and allows me to use large fans at low rpm to give me a silent but very efficient cooling system, simple. The first thing I do when planning a loop is finding a nice reference picture (or do my own) of the blank insides of the case. From there I draw out a simple loop adding a few notes here and there, like this.

From this picture we learn a lot. I can see some steep angles here so I know I will not only need compression fittings I will need angled 45 degree and 90 degree fittings. From sight I can see I need

• 3 x 45 degree fittings
• 3 x 90 degree fittings
• 6 x compression fittings
• 2 x blanking plugs

Also in this picture and noting the size specifications on the website I can see I need a 250mm reservoir for a great fit. Also while I was playing with the picture I noticed for a cleaner loop using less tubing and since I’m only cooling my cpu I can opt for a 280mm radiator on the top instead of a full size 420mm radiator. This method of planning really works for me so now all I need to do now is find the parts that will make me get what is in this picture.

Lets move to the next phase, buying the parts