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Best Chipset Water Block

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Changwang

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Hi
I am currenty building a water cooling project and would like to know the best chipset water block. Asetek, Silverprop, Polarflo, Danger Den, Swiftech, etc which ones the best?

Thanks
 
If i was you I would probably just skip the chipset block and use air. The routing and tubing issues with it are not worth the payoff IMO
 
One of these blue zalman passiv thingys... they go for 3,50 euros on german ebay, so they should be no more than five bucks in the US.

And if you want to go water for the pimp factor, try to get a block wth a low restriction. Northbridges produce so little (relative to CPU) heat, that basically a hollow copper rectangle with two barbs would be enough.
 
I need to cool it well because my nforce4 SLI motherboard runs really hot and I don't think my loop can take another block since it already has 4 blocks and 2 radiators. Maybe that air cooled chipset from switftech is a good one because it's quiet and performs well, but I hope it can fit between the 2 video cards. It's very tall.
 
Well, I know VIA k8 chipsets really don't need cooling... they're about as cold as a southbridge.
Now, nforce takes both the NB and SB roles into one chip... plus the SLI-features now... I don't know how much heat that would produce, but I don't think paying $30-40 for a waterblock is justified. No performance gain or overclocking advantages, really. Just get a plain passive VGA cooler or those zalman things, and they would do the job.
 
Yeah, get the Zalman as a passive cooler or the Thermalright suggested above with a fan. Have you seen those things, they look awesome. All copper design, they look just like a mini version of the old Thermalright CPU heatsinks that were so good. It's like a mini-me or something. I'd get the Zalman though just because it's passive.
 
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