Installation

Let's get the Symphony Mini up and running.

The Symphony Mini isn't hard to install, I didn't have to connect a pump to a radiator and figure the best way to put everything away in my case. Most of the parts are in the tower.
To get things started I selected a nice system to torture.



After noticing the waterblock could easily be mounted on Socket 604 (Xeon) I decided to be a true fanboy and primarily test with a Xeon 2.8 (Nocona, which is basically a Prescott). Thermaltake doesn't list Socket 604 as supported, though they did make the holes for it. No modding will be needed at all.
The waterblock is connected using two pieces of metal pressing the block onto the CPU. One is placed on the back of the motherboard and one on top of the waterblock. Four long screws go through all of this to sandwich the whole distance. Even though some of the sockets are slightly different, the same principle is used for all of them. The downside of this is that you will have to remove your motherbord to install the waterblock.
Everything goes into place easily though and can be tightened using four thumbscrews. I recommend using a screwdriver to tighten it well though.



Now that the water block is installed, the tubing has to find its way to the tower. There is a simple PCI bracket with two big holes, one for each tube. Simply put the tubes through the holes and make sure it stays there with a bolt. Next to the two holes is a power connector, connecting the internal molex connector to the PSU and the external connector to the Symphony makes sure the symphony doesn't require additional cables. Which I find rather handy, I expected a seperate adapter taking up another power outlet.


So far everything is really easy, everything that could be connected by Thermaltake was connected for me, keeping me extremely lazy.
The only thing I had to connect myself was the tubing on the outside, for some reason this didnt use those "Automatic non-spill valves". The manual describes how to connect everything very well though. So this shouldn't be a problem.


After connecting the tubes and installing the waterblock everything is ready to go. I'm suprised it was that easy. The manual states checking the coolant level first, which was just fine without doing a thing. In six months I'll check again, the manual wants me to.