NB cooling. passive or h2o

mumrah · Aug 17, 2004

On my K7D master, is it worth it to watercool the NB? I dont o/c the memory much at all, mainly b/c i cant. I run the fsb at 140. Would a nice zalman passive cooler suffice? Or should i go water?

-David

=ACID RAIN= · Aug 17, 2004

Get a zalman with a slow fan (12v normal@5v) and you'll be good to go

Water won't matter one bit on the NB IMO.

jamesavery22 · Aug 17, 2004

=ACID RAIN= said:
Get a zalman with a slow fan (12v normal@5v) and you'll be good to go

Water won't matter one bit on the NB IMO.

Agreed. for his old K7D you could probably get away with a large passive heatsink. Seen a lot of people use that zalman large passive blue thing on MPX2 boards with higher OCs...

But in general it depends on what chipset you have. Many peoples 865/875 boards get reallllly hot and need really good cooling if you want to OC higher...

whoever · Aug 17, 2004

so wahta bout abit nf-7s? do those get real hot? I'd reather use that huge passive cooler, but if it means more steady voltages for my cpu I'd do anything!

Como · Aug 17, 2004

more steady voltages are aquired by sinking your mofsets...this is about the northbridge...which transfers data between the cpu and the ram, and the video, and allot of other stuff too.

my nf7-s stays pretty cool as far as the NB is concearned, passive zalman, i believe.

whoever · Aug 17, 2004

cool, so the passicv is a go,

tell me about sinking the mosoft? or what ever that is. My home base forums xtremods.com , didn't know of any solutions, so Im very interested.

Guderian · Aug 17, 2004

Mosfet's...

little black squares/rectangles near your socket, usually near multiple capacitors ( cylinder things). Usually hot to the touch.

Some people glue sinks to them, and one of the guys here make a custom wb for them.

The gains are arguable, but heatsinking them can't hurt. of course you'll want some air flow around them which is relatively uncommon in a water system.

whoever · Aug 17, 2004

never seen them, can you piont them out in a photo?

whoever · Aug 17, 2004

ld it be the ones above the socket in theis picture, there are 6 of them right?

Aphex_Tom_9 · Aug 17, 2004

yep, those are them, i glued some staples to mine, helped cool em off a bit

whoever · Aug 17, 2004

Staples? what a sweet idea! But I think I will use as 5 adhesive, not glue, no offense.

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