Impressions:

   The Stingray comes with a single 12cm radiator which is about 1.5 inches thick and appears to have quite a few fins for dissipating heat. The mounting kit comes with various standoffs to put space between your radiator and back of the case. If you have an internal 12cm fan connected, you will have to remove it to attach the radiator. Can you guess who makes the 12cm fan? Yep, you guessed it, Vantec. It's specifications rate it to be a very quiet fan.

Radiator Front

Radiator Back

Standoff Kit Bag

   The pump and reservoir assembly are attached to a black satin plastic platform that has four suction style feet. The cylindrical reservoir is made with clear acrylic and nicely built with a few features. The inlet and outlet are at the base of the reservoir, with the outlet to the pump pre-attached. The pump is a Hydor L20-II series and comes with a power connector that plugs in to your power supply with female out to plug your direct power cord in to. The four foot power cord makes it easy to place the pump assembly anywhere you want which also happens to power on the LEDs that are mounted inside the platform beneath the reservoir. The red and blue LEDs are intended to appeal and give the kit a modded appearance by lighting up the water while operating.

Hydor Pump

Round Reservoir

Ring Nut Barb

Hand Tighten Only

   The accessories consist of mounting kits, the manual, and the AC adapter/coupler power cord. Instead of a power cord needing to be run to any multi-taps or wall sockets, you can plug this in on your AC power cord on the back of your power supply. Then your power cord will plug in to this coupler negating extra running wires.

System Coolant

Very Nice Manual

Tubing

Adapter

Installation:

   Performing the ritual motherboard removal, the back plate and CPU mounting bracket STAY! That's right, this time you can leave that part of the motherboard as is. After applying fresh thermal paste, the CPU water block is attached to the existing motherboard bracket using the provided AMD or Intel mounting clips which mounts easily and doesn't need any tools to do so. This whole process required approximately 5 minutes to read, attach, and double check.

Selecting Bracket

Bracket Stays

Locking Clamp Down

Very Secure

   The only thing you need to remove is any north and/or south bridge heat sinks. After that, the Chipset block mounts using the mounting plate which is attached to the bottom of the water block, via the block's assembly screws. There are three to four screws that have to be removed with a little caution. Once the screws are removed, the bottom copper base can easily fall off exposing the water block's internal copper base fins and rubber ring.

Kit Selected

Block Selected

Mounting Ring On

Mounted NB Block

   The mounting plate that applies to my Nvidia chipset was used and pre-attached the two white silicone chipset style spring pins, such as is used on regular chipset heat sink fans. Then the plate was placed over the bottom of the water block base and reattached the screws. Again, some thermal paste was applied to the chipset. The water block was placed over the chipset die and then very carefully, keeping the block perfectly stable, pressed the standoff through the motherboard. It's as easy as that!

Kit Selection

Removing Screws

Top and Base

Internal Block

Bracket Mounted

Standoffs Pushed In

Ready for Tubing

The VGA block attaches in the same way as the chipset block. The base gets removed and then the mounting plate is attached. After applying some thermal paste to the GPU, the white silicone standoffs again are very carefully pushed through the video card PCB so that no damage is done to the GPU. The standoffs make installing these blocks very, very easy.