Koolance ICM-505 User Manual

Superior Liquid Cooling Systems

ICM-505

User’s Manual

English v1.00

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This User Manual is updated regularly. Please be sure to check our support page for a newer version of this guide: www.koolance.com/support

GENERAL PRECAUTION

Please read this manual carefully before beginning the installation of your Koolance system. This manual assumes the user has basic experience in building and conﬁ guring computer systems. Information referring to traditional hardware assembly is intentionally brief.

ABOUT SIGNS

Throughout this document, critical information is highlighted in gray-colored boxes. The following symbols are intended to prevent you from any situation which may cause personal injury and/or damage to equipment:

WARNING: Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided,

could result in personal injury or be life-threatening.

CAUTION: Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, may result in damage to equipment.

PROHIBITED: Indicates a prohibited action.

PROHIBITED USE

This product is designed, developed and manufactured as contemplated for general use, including without limitation: general ofﬁ ce use, personal use and household use, but is not designed, developed and manufactured as contemplated for use accompanying fatal risks or dangers that, unless extremely high safety is secured, could lead directly to death, personal injury, severe physical damage or other loss, including without limitation: nuclear power core control, airplane control, air trafﬁ c control, mass transport operation control, life support, or weapon launching control. If these products are used in such hazardous environments, Koolance Incorporated does not warrant them.

TRADEMARKS

The Koolance name and logo, and the Exos name and logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Koolance, Inc. Other company and product names used in this publication are for identiﬁ cation purposes only and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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WARNING: The Koolance liquid & coolant pack contain chemicals

which may be harmful or fatal if swallowed. KEEP THIS AND ALL DANGEROUS CHEMICALS OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN. If ingestion has occurred, seek medical attention immediately. Give two glasses of water. Do not induce vomiting. In the case of eye contact, ﬂ ush eyes immediately with water for 15 minutes. Remove contact lenses. Call a physician if irritation persists. Some individuals may have an allergic skin reaction with the solution, although generally mild. Avoid contact as much as possible, and wash exposed area with soap and water for at least 15 minutes. If irritation persists, or if contact has been prolonged, get medical help. For further information, please visit our website at: www.koolance.com

CAUTION: Koolance Incorporated can not be held responsible for any damage to your system due to misconﬁ guration or incorrect installation. If there is any point of installation that you do not understand, please contact our Technical Support Staff at: tech@koolance.com, or visit our website at: www.koolance.com/support

CAUTION: Liquid cooling systems are not yet universally supported by hardware manufacturers. In some situations, adding liquid coolers and other components to computer hardware might void the manufacturer’s original warranty. Installation of the device is ultimately done at the user’s own risk. If you have any speciﬁ c questions on warranty coverage, please contact your component or computer manufacturer.

KOOLANCE CONTACT INFORMATION

Koolance Inc. (USA)

Address: 2840 W. Valley Hwy. N., Auburn, WA, USA 98001 Telephone: +01-253-893-7551 Sales Email: sales@koolance.com Tech Email: tech@koolance.com Web: www.koolance.com

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

ICM-505 Overview .......................................................................................... 4

System Settings ..............................................................................................5

LED Display Panel (Optional) ......................................................................... 5

Installing the ICM-505 7

Mounting the ICM-505 ....................................................................................8

Wire Connections ............................................................................................ 9

Connecting Hoses ......................................................................................... 11

Hose Lengths ................................................................................................ 12

Installing the CPU Cooler 13

Temperature Sensor .....................................................................................14

Tension Screw ...............................................................................................15

AMD Socket 462 (“A”), Intel Socket 478 Processors .................................... 17

AMD Socket 939, 754, & 940 Processors ..................................................... 18

Intel Socket LGA-775 (“T”) Processors ......................................................... 21

Filling & Maintenance 23

Testing & Filling ............................................................................................. 24

Draining & Maintenance ................................................................................ 26

Troubleshooting ............................................................................................27

Limited Warranty ........................................................................................... 30

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Included Hardware

ICM-505 Series Systems:

- CPU Cooler

- ATX power jumper wire

- reﬁ ll funnel

- liquid coolant mixture

- liquid tubing

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Required Tools

During installation, you may need the following tools:

ﬂ at-head screw driver

phillips-head screw driver

pliers

long-nose pliers

scissors

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Introduction

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Congratulations on your purchase of a Koolance system!

As the most sophisticated product of its kind, Koolance offers many unique features found nowhere else in the realm of computer cooling. In addition, you can expect to enjoy all of the advantages that water-cooling technology brings with it.

Advantages of Water Cooling

Water transfers 30 times faster, and holds over 4 times more heat than air.

With this thermal conductivity and speciﬁ c heat capacity, it’s easy to see why liquid cooling is getting a lot of attention from hardware manufacturers.

Heat-producing devices in a typical computer are cooled by air. Generally, this involves mounting a heat sink and fan to each component. For example, heat generated from your CPU (or other heat source) is transferred into a metal heat sink, where a fan blows air across its wide surface area.

While altering a heat sink’s size and makeup can improve the effectiveness, it is still limited because air absorbs and transfers heat very slowly. To help compensate for this, the fan is often run at a higher speed. Many people have therefore come to equate high performance with high noise. As systems continued to be upgraded, the required heat sinks simply got larger and louder.

Liquid cooling greatly reduces the noise issue. A larger amount of heat is withdrawn from the components more quickly, and less airﬂ ow is required to cool them.

The heat exchanger is also located remotely from heat-producing devices, so airﬂ ow can be controlled. This considerably reduces dust accumulation on sensitive hardware and can result in a cleaner overall system.

Advantages of Koolance Systems

Koolance was the ﬁ rst company to offer fully-integrated, consumer-level PC liquid cooling systems to the world-wide market. Our products are designed and built to look and operate professionally. You will not need power tools or a tape measure to install your Koolance system, and it should even be less difﬁ cult than assembling your own computer.

Koolance offers liquid coolers for every major hardware device. Providing enormous ﬂ exibility, you can customize your system to ﬁ t your speciﬁ c needs— cool dual processors in a server, multiple hard drives in a RAID conﬁ guration, or add video cooling to a gaming rig.

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The heart of a liquid cooling system is the pump. This device pushes liquid through each cooler and into the heat exchanger. Koolance systems use dual pumps to increase reliability and liquid pressure. If one pump should fail, the second can help prevent potential damage caused by heat increase.

Every Koolance system includes built-in hardware safety features. Our proprietary power control board constantly monitors liquid temperature, sounding an alarm if it should get too high, and even turning-off your computer if you are not there to do so.

But Koolance’s innovations extend beyond just cooling features. Our safe, patent-pending CPU Retention Clip places even pressure across the CPU, protecting the chip and simplifying installation. There’s even a ratcheting tension screw for precise contact pressure.

Finally, Koolance systems allow coolers to be easily exchanged and upgraded to address future hardware compatibility.

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ICM-505 Overview

Reservoir & Pumps

Radiator Window

Reservoir Reﬁ ll Plug

Coolant Level

Coolant Inlet / Outlet

Window

Nozzles

Power Circuit

Connections

Radiator (Primary Heat Exchanger)

Radiator Cooling Fan

Reservoir & Pumps - The coolant tank is translucent for easy liquid-level monitoring.

Dual pumps help to provide higher system reliability; if one pump should fail, the other can maintain ﬂ ow, gradually bringing the system to shut itself down (see LED Display Panel).

Power Circuit Board - The Power Circuit is responsible for a number of tasks,

including: powering the pumps, LED display (sold separately), heat exchanger fans, and operating the audio alarm and shutdown modes.

Radiator - The primary heat exchanger is located beneath the fan cooling module.

This is the main cooling element, and provides high thermal dissipation in a relatively small area. Inside, an aluminum mesh (Louver ﬁ n) is webbed between 13 horizontal liquid paths.

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System Settings

By default, the ICM-505 automatically adjusts fan speeds based on the liquid temperature at the CPU (see CPU Cooler for sensor placement). For actual CPU temperatures, please refer to your motherboard’s BIOS, or 3rd-party software.

The Koolance system alarm will sound if the sensor gets too high (55ºC / 131ºF). At that point, the radiator fans will increase to 100% power. Should the system

heating (to 58ºC / 136ºF), the computer will automatically shutdown. At this level,

the processor may be nearing critical temperatures.

CAUTION: If activated, the shutdown feature of your Koolance system

will automatically turn off power to the entire computer. Unsaved ﬁ les and documents may be lost. Always make regular backups of your ﬁ les to an external device or medium.

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LED Display Panel (Optional)

The ICM-505 features an expansion connection for an optional LED Display Panel (sold separately). The display mounts in a

3.5” drive bay, or a 5.25” drive bay with 3rd-party adapter.

The LED Display allows visual monitoring of the Koolance sensor temperature, adjustment of the alarm and shutdown mode, and adds 10 manual fan speeds to the default automatic setting.

Decrease Fan Speed

Temperature Value

LED Display - Fan Speed

This option adjusts the radiator fan speed. Higher speeds can improve performance, but will produce more noise. There is 1 automatic and 10 manual fan settings (1-10). Press the ▲ or ▼ buttons to cycle through these settings, or hold down

an arrow to skip to the highest or lowest mode directly.

Automatic mode will adjust the fans for you based on temperature values from the primary sensor. This is the only mode available when using the ICM-505 without the LED Display Panel. With the display, automatic mode is reached by lowering the fan setting to “0” (Aut / A1 will be displayed).

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Increase Fan Speed

Display in ºC or ºF

Details on ICM-505 fan modes are as follows:

Auto Mode Manual Mode Fan Power % Total CFM Fan RPM

0 - 35ºC (32 - 95ºF) 1 30 28 720

36 - 37ºC (97 - 99ºF) 2 35 33 840

38 - 39ºC (100 - 102ºF) 3 40 38 960

40 - 41ºC (104 - 106ºF) 4 45 43 1080

42 - 43ºC (108 - 109ºF) 5 50 47 1200

44 - 45ºC (111 - 113ºF) 6 60 57 1440

46 - 47ºC (115 - 117ºF) 7 70 66 1680

48 - 49ºC (118 - 120ºF) 8 80 75 1920

50 - 51ºC (122 - 124ºF) 9 90 85 2160

52 - 99ºC (126 - 210ºF) 10 100 94 2400

LED Display - Alarm Settings

By default, the Koolance audio alarm will sound if the primary sensor reaches 55ºC (131ºF). When the system alarm sounds, the LED temperature will ﬂ ash in the display and the radiator fans will increase to 100% power.

To change this setting with the LED Display, press and hold ▲ + ▼ together for

3 seconds. The alarm temperature will begin ﬂ ashing. You may change this value from 0ºC (32ºF) up to 99ºC (210ºF). The normal temperature reading will resume if you do not press any buttons for 4 seconds.

To reset the temperature alarm to the default (55ºC / 131ºF) setting, press and hold the ºC/F button until “dEF” ﬂ ashes in the display. NOTE: This will also reset the fan speed mode to “auto”.

LED Display - Safety Shutdown

If the temperature value of the primary sensor reaches 3ºC (5ºF) above the alarm temperature, the system will shutdown power to the computer. With default alarm settings, this means the system will shutdown if the sensor reaches 58ºC (136ºF).

CAUTION: The Koolance system shutdown mode is linked to the alarm

setting. If the alarm temperature is set too high above default (55ºC / 131ºF), the system may lose its ability to help prevent hardware damage in the event of cooling system failure. Remember, the LED displays the liquid temperature; actual CPU temperatures will be higher.

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