Wrapping it Up

The picture on the left shows the door on the right flank of the case, which makes a good area for wire management. You'll notice I used tie bands which are not included in the supplied hardware. Thermaltake does give you two small tie bands and a stick-on wire strap. With the door on this side of the case it makes it very easy to take care of your wire management offering plenty of room. I installed the Thermaltake TWV 500 Watt for my power supply, which I already had on hand.


I took the time to take off the reservoir to fix the mishap during shipping. As you can see it wasn't any problem and looks as good as new.


Now in the red box you see a male Molex connector which is coming from the combination of dual 120 cm fans and pump. Unfortunately you can not plug a male Molex into the end of the PSU male Molex, so I had to go through the wires and switch some plugs around to get a female Molex to run to the PSU. So once that was taken care of, we can start with the cooling system by first taking off the nut and sliding the tube over the fitting and tightening the nut back down snuggly.


Above is a page scanned from the user's manual of the Tai-Chi, now it was something I had mentioned before about the fan not having a grill. Thermaltake does show the path of the tubing going across the front of the fan once the door opens. However when you go to close the door I would suspect you would need to be constantly aware of making sure the tubing stayed above the fan. Not wanting to be worried about this on a regular bases, I chose to rig up my loop differently. As you may want to as well.


I used a tie band to keep the tubing together above the radiator, not pulling it too tight. I then used a strong but pliable wire to create a hook to hold up the tubing, running the length of tubing long enough to allow it to rise towards the top of the case. I did try to find some PVC coil which would have worked better, but I could not find any that would fit 1/4" ID tubing.