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NB Cooling

for overclocking, depends on the board.

However, if you want to get rid of that whiny high-pitched fan on the NB, then yes.
 
If you just want to get rid of the noise from the nb fan, get something like an Arctic Cooling Freezer 4, and chop out fan and the center 1/3 or so of the cooling fins, and thermal epoxy it onto the northbridge. With the center third of the finds gone, it won't weigh much and shouldn't put much stress on the chip or the motherboard. You'll also avoid the problem of it getting in the way of a video card, should the nb on your motherboard be in the wrong spot.

(oh, i haven't actually done any of this myself, just read about it)

Of course, if you want to overclock it, for some reason, then a waterblock might work better.
 
Rudager said:
Is it really worth it to WC your NB?
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It all depends on you cooling philosophy. No right or wrong here, just choices. I have been watercooling NB's for a couple of years now and like it. YMMV. :D
 
Yes, to eliminate annoying fan noise. Others will say no, depends on priorities.
 
Just slap a good copper heatsink on it and be done with it. If you have decent airflow in your case already, you'll be fine...and even better if you have a fan on the side of your case blowing in, as it'll blow air right onto the heatsink.
 
Realisticly, by the time your NB needs more than passive cooling, your cpu will need subzero cooling. If you're going for a completely passive system, ie no airflow whatsoever, then you might need to slap a block on your NB if it runs hot and you can't fit/don't want to mod a large passive nb cooler. Your choice, my view is that it's a waste of time, money, tubing, and flow, but it's your choice.

If you really want to WC your NB, but don't want the rest of your loop to have too much of a performance loss, just have your nb running parallel with just a piece of tubing on the other part of the Y. Then, just take the NB outlet and connect it to another Y along with the other tubing, and your NB will receive all the flow it needs. If you have an unrestrictive NB block, then you won't see too much of a flow loss.
 
Earp said:
for overclocking, depends on the board.

However, if you want to get rid of that whiny high-pitched fan on the NB, then yes.
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what he said.....
 
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