Stealing Coolaler's pictures off of XS show's the cooling setup of the board:
Here is the heatpipe arrangement.
The board without it on
The mofset's (or whatever
)My real question is this, If I do take off the passive heatsink assembly, the heatsink from the top and southbridge will also be removed. What can I use to cool these? An extreme option could possibly to remove the NB heatpipe and try and put the assembly back on minus that, I'm not sure if I want to break it though. This leads me to wonder if it is worth water cooling the NB. But eva has said before (albet on a different motherboard) that passively cooling an overclocked northbridge did get very hot to touch.
Sorry if i havent worded my questions very clearly, but I hope you get the gist of what I'm trying to get at and can help me out.
Dan
