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What is the best chipset cooler on the market today?
I am watercooling, but don't really want to split the line for cooling the chipset. How good are the active cooling that motherboards are coming with?
I currently have,
Aquacoil radiator
waterblock (homemade but nice):)
Watertank & magdrive Pump
Just wating for new motherboards to come out.
but want to have all the cooling supplies ready to go.
Thanks for any replies
William
07-06-01, 01:36 PM
get the blorb and lap it. It gives really good results. There really is no reason to water cool a chipset, they don't get that hot yet.
Yeah and a chipset block will add some heat to the water and your CPU. If it will fit on your board, try a 50mm wide Coolermaster Socket A HS. They cost less and cool better than the Blorb. You may have to grind a little of it or turn it a bit. On the KTY series boards it needs to be rotated about 10 degrees clockwise to fit,
Colin (Jul 06, 2001 01:42 p.m.):
Yeah and a chipset block will add some heat to the water and your CPU. If it will fit on your board, try a 50mm wide Coolermaster Socket A HS. They cost less and cool better than the Blorb. You may have to grind a little of it or turn it a bit. On the KTY series boards it needs to be rotated about 10 degrees clockwise to fit,
That's why I didn't want to use a chipset waterblock
every Degree counts when you live in the Deep south.
Thanks you guys for the help.
Neptune
07-06-01, 02:37 PM
This is what i'm using:
http://2cooltek.safeshopper.com/4/166.htm?674
I've used AS Epoxy to attach it to the northbridge. Yeah, it's overkill...but so what?
Kingslayer
07-06-01, 06:17 PM
Well I live in Florida, south Florida and I use the Blorb.
whiskeyinajar
07-06-01, 09:18 PM
Is the blorb the same thing as the panaorb?
I think the active coolers that come with motherboards are pretty weak. I modified a blue orb. Copperfoot Blorb (www.overclockers.com/tips465/) Works well for me!
Froggy1
07-07-01, 01:05 PM
Neptune (Jul 06, 2001 02:37 p.m.):
This is what i'm using:
http://2cooltek.safeshopper.com/4/166.htm?674
I've used AS Epoxy to attach it to the northbridge. Yeah, it's overkill...but so what?
Would that be a good vid card cooler as well?
Hey, nice neon green tubing!
cjtune (Jul 08, 2001 05:56 a.m.):
Hey, nice neon green tubing!
The tubing is really Clear, the water has Dyelite in it.
When you put a blacklight on it it glows.
outhouse
07-08-01, 04:05 PM
I'm a big fan of making your own northbridge HSF i cut this one down from a old AMD CPU and it works great but i'm really pushing my chip at 167FSB, i would stay away from the borb as there really weak they do perform better though if you do the copper plate on the bottom trick. I think any CPU HSF that you can get in there will keep your chip happy.
Neptune
07-08-01, 04:07 PM
Frogger: Yeah, this would probably make a gread video cooler.
Well, I donīt think you should bother too much about that ting. Definately regarding water-cooling! Use all your water at the CPU! Personally, I mounted a (slightly) modified AMD-HS from CoolerMaster, and put the original ABIT fan on top of it. (take a look at the pic!) No probīs, so far!
Planning to remove the waterblock from the vid-card, and substitute it with double-sided (low-noise) fans!
AMD T-bird1133@1507...
Fjeld - Nice to hear another voice of reason. Great looking rig too.
Since everyone is posting pics, here is a tired old one of the Coolermaster on my boards Northbridge.
[img="http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1551335&a=11768501&p=48642929"]
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