CONVERTING Socket 775 CPU Block bracket to Socket 2011-v3! (Or 1366)!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey all. I have a custom water cooling loop that I made in 2006....... yup... almost 10 years ago.

This loop has serviced my Intel e6700 dual core from 2.6 to 4.2Ghz, then my i7-920 from 2.66 to 4.2Ghz (using the Asus P6T motherboard which actually had bracket holes for BOTH 1366 and 775!), and now my 5820k from 3.3 to 4.7Ghz!

I didn't want to bother with changing such a nice loop, so I visited my ACE hardware store and spent some time brainstorming. I spent less than FIVE dollars getting the hardware I needed to jury rig my old 775 bracket to fit the 2011-v3 socket.

The pictures are pretty self explanatory, so take a look, and let me know if you have any questions on anything specific! (the motherboard in the pics is the ASUS x99 PRO)

I screwed ONE of the holes in the normal way - and then angled the bracket a bit to fit my jury rig. Using spacers to keep the metal bits away from the board itself.

Hopefully that block can pull enough heat off that chip to keep it cool.

No need to hope - seems to be doing just fine. Although after tuning RAM and the Bclock jumping to 125 - I am stuck at 4.625Ghz... Not a really bad OC actually, just wondering if there are any other tips to push it to the max.

Nice upgrades and DIY.




to OCFs, btw.

Great DIY.

That's awesome

Thanks for the feedback - I will update on the top OC I am able to obtain that is stable once I am all done!

Be sure to post loaded temps using P95 and a screenshot of HWMonitor

Crazy awesome DIY! Outstanding job man!

Ok - finished my OC. I was able to hit 4.625Ghz on the CPU, didn't OC the RAM (left it at XMP settings of 3000Mhz 15-15-15), and was able to push the cache to 4.375ghz!

All of that at 1.3 Vcore! (ended up being 1.312 according to Aida64).

Here is a screen shot of 30+ mins on stress test on AIDA64. Pic shows voltages, and temps from Coretemp.

Let me know if there are any suggestions!

Nice job! Anyone can do the plug and play with known quantities, but it people like you know think outside the box that get my two thumbs up.

Not too shabby at all! Nicely done!