Water Cooling a NB
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:41 pm
^^ Is it worth it? I'm going to get a AW9D-MAX just as soon as I can get my hands on one. I plan to be overclocking this to at least 400Mhz FSB if I can, and was wondering how benificial active water cooling over the stock passive cooling would be.
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
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