Thermaltake Symphony Mini Water Cooling Kit

The Mini?

The Thermaltake marketing people prove they have an excellent sense of humor.  Sure, the Symphony Mini is a smaller version of the Symphony but putting “Mini” anywhere in the name of a product that is two and a half feet tall is both accurate in direct comparison with the predecessor while being comical at the same time.  Check out the pics below for a closer look at the tower and its labeling on the very top.  That small orange square you see in the first photo below is an 80mm case fan to give you an idea of scale with the one next to that being my four year old son.  The third photo is the Mini alongside it's big brother, the original Tt Symphony.  As far as the Mini goes, large size fortunately doesn’t mean overly heavy.  Even with the reservoir being pre-filled at the Thermaltake factory, the Symphony Mini weighs in at 8.4 kgs.

The tower has a screen mesh on either side that you saw in the previous pictures.  This mesh conceals three 120mm case fans mounted onto a matching 360 x 120mm radiator.  As with the original Symphony Water Cooling Kit, I could not figure out how to remove the protective screens.  The only way I could get any kind of picture was by shining a LED flashlight on the assembly.

Access to the workings of the Thermaltake Symphony Mini’s pumps and reservoir is via a rectangular door on the lower rear of the unit.  Held in place by four oversized head standard screws, this aluminum plate is easily removed showing the Mini’s insides.

Under the cover is a large reservoir that came pre-filled from Thermaltake.  This is an important point you need to remember.  I'll get to why shortly.  Immediately under this are two 12v 90L/hr pumps.  The thinking behind having dual pumps is twofold; the large amount of fluid in the system that needs to be circulated quickly and for redundancy.  The pumps are rated for 90 L/hr as we said, so flow should not be a problem.  The third pic below is of the water inlet and outlets.  These hoses mate up to the water block on the processor via Thermaltake's quick connect hoses.

Thermaltake's quick connect hoses rock pretty hard.  They are designed so that both sides are closed and sealed except when mated together.  This makes moving your system with the Mini installed much easier.  With the very practical quick connect hoses you can disconnect your system and move things around as needed without having to uninstall just to move across the room.  Remember how I mentioned that the Symphony Mini came shipped to us pre-filled?  The only thing between a liter or so of coolant and the FedEx box were these quick connect seals.  The hoses were not connected during packaging or shipping.  If Thermaltake puts this much faith in a quick connect seal, I think that speaks volumes of how good it is.

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