How to care for and maintain liquid-cooled Alienware

[RikuoAmero]

Hey guys,

Next week, I'll hopefully be ordering for myself an Alienware. I'm hoping to get the Geforce GTX 580/590 and if I can squeeze a bit out of my finances, hopefully go dual card and SLI.

What I would like are some guides to taking care of a liquid cooled PC, preferably by people who have Alienware and thus can give that little bit of extra detail.

[† ballard]

Here's a good article I found that explains how to maintain a liquid cooling setup.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/how_to_maintain_your_watercooling_setup

[-Zero-]

I don't really own an Alienware but one of my systems is water cooled. I took a quick look at the Alienware desktops and I noticed that all of the coolers are self contained water coolers of the like of Corsair. If that's the case then the only maintenance you'll have to do is to clean the fans and remove any dust. That's why closed-loop systems are easier to deal with self built systems, because everything is contained in a single loop. I don't want to get too techy here. I bet you understand what I'm talking about. If I'm wrong, and it's not a self contained unit, then here's another guide to self built system maintenance. It's part of a rather large Beginner's Watecooling guide. Scroll down to Periodic Maintenance and Draining.

http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/water-cooling/33772-water-cooling-guide-beginners-2.html

A quick question, are you doing a GTX 590 SLI setup?

[RikuoAmero]

I don't really own an Alienware but one of my systems is water cooled. I took a quick look at the Alienware desktops and I noticed that all of the coolers are self contained water coolers of the like of Corsair. If that's the case then the only maintenance you'll have to do is to clean the fans and remove any dust. That's why closed-loop systems are easier to deal with self built systems, because everything is contained in a single loop. I don't want to get too techy here. I bet you understand what I'm talking about. If I'm wrong, and it's not a self contained unit, then here's another guide to self built system maintenance. It's part of a rather large Beginner's Watecooling guide. Scroll down to Periodic Maintenance and Draining.

http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/water-cooling/33772-water-cooling-guide-beginners-2.html

A quick question, are you doing a GTX 590 SLI setup?

Hopefully I am. The way I'm doing it is, I have to wait for my passport to come in the mail, then go online and get a loan off them through Dell Finance (they'll ask for my passport number). Hopefully they'll loan to me. I can pay it off, depending on what I'll get I'm looking at between €140-€190 per month.

Oh and guys, are there any videos for example? I would prefer videos of an Alienware cooling system, since from what I understand, there's loads of different coolers and its slightly different to maintain each one.