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- Dec 7, 2005
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- Walnut Creek, CA
I gather PolarFLO sucks, but how much so? They may be my only option due to MoBo...
I have a Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal motherboard and the northbridge chip has a center to center hole distance of 2.75 inches. This appears to be pretty atypical. The OEM cooler has this awful 40mm fan that’s the loudest, highest pitch thing in my system. I would be happy to go with a larger passive heat sink but I can not find one that would fit. edit: After buying a DD Maze4 WB for my north bridge without properly measuring, I looked for another waterblock that might work. I wrote to PolarFLO about their universal chipset waterblocks because I couldn’t find any text on what they would fit. They told me it would work with center to center distances up to 3 inches.
At this point it looks like this water block may be my only solution to ridding my system of this whiney fan. I have read that PolarFLO is no good at least from a innovation/development perspective and that they’re quality may be lacking. Am I taking a risk getting this, or maybe since acrylic is susceptible to cracking; this version instead?
I have a Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal motherboard and the northbridge chip has a center to center hole distance of 2.75 inches. This appears to be pretty atypical. The OEM cooler has this awful 40mm fan that’s the loudest, highest pitch thing in my system. I would be happy to go with a larger passive heat sink but I can not find one that would fit. edit: After buying a DD Maze4 WB for my north bridge without properly measuring, I looked for another waterblock that might work. I wrote to PolarFLO about their universal chipset waterblocks because I couldn’t find any text on what they would fit. They told me it would work with center to center distances up to 3 inches.
At this point it looks like this water block may be my only solution to ridding my system of this whiney fan. I have read that PolarFLO is no good at least from a innovation/development perspective and that they’re quality may be lacking. Am I taking a risk getting this, or maybe since acrylic is susceptible to cracking; this version instead?
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