As I mentioned in another thread, I'm looking to buy a watercooling kit, most likely Swiftech Apex Ultra. My mobo is an Asus A8N-SLI Premium, with stock passive cooling. Is there any reason to go water on the chipset, or is the stock cooling good enough? What would be the reason to go water? I don't see why I would have to change it out, but gotta make sure :
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Watercooled chipset necessary?
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no, you don't "need" to wc the chipset. but you might "want" to, depending on what you want to acheive.
if it's passive already, then it doesn't make any noise. as long as you still provide decent airflow, then you're fine. If you are cutting down on airflow due to the CPU being WC'ed, then you may need to WC or use a HSF on the chipset.
if you are seriuosly OCing, then WC the chipset may or may not help. up to you.
if it's passive already, then it doesn't make any noise. as long as you still provide decent airflow, then you're fine. If you are cutting down on airflow due to the CPU being WC'ed, then you may need to WC or use a HSF on the chipset.
if you are seriuosly OCing, then WC the chipset may or may not help. up to you.
From doing something similar my 3500+ will run at 2.6 all day at 20C, with the old copper cpu block. I have a feeling i could hit 2.7-2.8 at near same temps. Im not that ready to shell out more money til M2, then all bets are off. At the same time the passive heatsink on my msi boards chipset never goes above 32C with barely any airflow through the case, one quiet low power 80mm fan that i cant hear running exhaust. I dont run an intake fan as the side cover is off. In a stuffy case expect a few more degrees if fan(s) arent sufficient to move air through the case The 120mm on my radiator does all the work. At one time i hooked up the swiftech chipset block and noticed two things.
1. It is a PITA to make it fit some chipsets, its just so damn big! Running screws through mb, running short coolant tube to cpu, sat right on top of the video card too. Big PITA
2. heat from the warmer chipset actually influenced the temp on the CPU by raising it five or so degrees, cant remember exactly how much; but it did raise cpu temps.
I just use it on the cpu now.
1. It is a PITA to make it fit some chipsets, its just so damn big! Running screws through mb, running short coolant tube to cpu, sat right on top of the video card too. Big PITA
2. heat from the warmer chipset actually influenced the temp on the CPU by raising it five or so degrees, cant remember exactly how much; but it did raise cpu temps.
I just use it on the cpu now.
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On that board, no. As of right now, with the system in sig, the chipset still only hits around 35C. I have good airflow in my case, and at this point the only sources of heat are HDDs, Memory, and the Chipset. GPU and CPU are both watercooler. Therefor, ambient temps are low and the chipset can stay perfectly cool even without the airflow of a CPU aircooler to help it out. Because the system is passive, it makes no noise. Atleast with A64, that is really the only reason to watercool the chipset, to elimite a whiney chipset fan. Since you don't have that problem assuming your temps keep in line, which they should, you have no reason to WC the chipset. There is nothing to gain, and its just more tight bends than risk kinking.