Chipset cooling
 

Hey, I am kind of new to the idea of water-cooling, but is water cooling the chipset really necessary? I am going to any way to help get heat away from my computer, but I am just interested in what the real experts think. Also, on motherboards manufactured by Intel, they have a heatsink over the Northbridge chipset. The heatsink seems to be held in place with four bolts that have been soldered in place in the other side of the motherboard PCB. Any ideas on how to remove this kind of heatsink, and leave the holes open for mounting hardware?

Where is Brush Prairie? Been in WA all but 1 year of my life and never heard of it. :D

As for the chipset it might help FSB overclocking. Seems to help on the newer AMD boards.

As for the heat sink, just unsolder the bolts. Sounds good that it actual has 4 bolts on the chipset cooler. Thats pretty rare.

I myself think that cooling NB w/ water is not good b/c adds to much heat to water system. My Vantec copper cooling fan does just great!

My NB gets hot enough for the MB manufacturer to put a fan on it.

I HATE fans.
Noisy bloody things just shuffling the same hot air around my case.

So, WC it not to be cooler, but to be quieter.

Now, most GPU and NB WB designs still focus on cooling ability and not lessening flow restriction, which is why I have copper in my garage and a dremmel, and still run a fan on both my GPU and NB.

But the fans should be shaking in their boots, as their time has come...

I agree (to some respect) SMALL fans are next to useless. I have a KD7 board and that came with a 40mm fan on the NB. After a month it the noise from that was appauling, so I replaced it with a
Zalman chipset cooler... my mobo temp actually went down by 10*C with the added bonus of chipset cooler that doesn't make noise.

I don't think I'll put it on the water cooling loop... IMHO it just isn't worth it... plus it'll heat up the CPU too much.

Yeah I have a Zalman Heatsink on My NB and on My SB ( Both have mounting holes for this :D ) When I water cool My PC I'm going to install an 80mm UV lighted fan above the video card in the back of My PC's Case with a 60mm to 80mm adapter (I have an old 60mm fan mount there already, That I put in at one time). But I'm going to Water cool the video cards gpu, I need some cool air for the heatsinks on My mosfets too. It would be nice If there was a 60mm UV lighted fan instead of the 80mm fan though (I have a very small case, 17"x17"x7" interally).

[quote]Originally posted by jaydee116
[b]Where is Brush Prairie? Been in WA all but 1 year of my life and never heard of it.

Brush Prairie is in southern Washington, near Vancouver. That is, instead of being near Spokane it is on the west side of the Cascades.