I am making water blocks...

[LiquidCool]

Friends of mine are developing new liquid cooling blocks for [CPUs/GPUs/motherboard components] and looking for CAD and geometric information to support designs.

Anyone know who/how to get this info from: ASUS, EVGA, SAPPHIRE, AMD, Gigabyte?


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[800XL]

AMD and Intel have datasheets for their CPU and socket types that will give dimensional data and such. For Intel I found CoreTechnicalResources by just looking for info for hardware developers. The datasheets and the thermal and mechanical guidelines should contain most of the data you're looking for. They used to publish something called a "platform design guide" that gave pretty much all of the physical and electrical specs you would need to design a board or thermal solution for a particular processor family.

AMD should have something similar, and nVidia may also have hardware design guides available online too. For a lot of companies you may have to just contact them and get in touch with their engineering section. They might help, they might not, and they might require you sign NDAs to see/use any of their data. Basically though, contact them and take yourself seriously and they will too.

If you are looking for ready made CAD drawings, good luck. I didn't find much searching online, but they may be out there. In the past I've just used the specs and started drawing. Once you know the spacing between holes/clips and the size of the keep out zones, the rest is all yours to build anyway.

 

[DeathPrincess]

Theres this site, with components made for sketchup. Not sure how accurate they are though. Probably just from users with tape measures.

 

[kostonn760]

I'd like to see some of this work - do you have a prototype your can show us?

 

[boushidosan]

any updates on this?

 

[yurdun]

I'd like to see some of these designs too...

 

[Erasmus354]

You might try seeing if an email to Nvidia or AMD can get you dimensions for the reference designs.