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Originally Posted by guandi
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Hole in the Board - yep, have the Motherboard designed to have to have a hole behind the socket, that way you can directly attatch a cooling block to the back of the CPU with sockets with holes in. This of course would require a lot of work redesigning the PCB in that area, as motherboards get more sophisticated they have more layers of circuitry and components in this area, its just like a silicone sammich with everything on it.
So... it probably can be done, but its really just not worth it...
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Yep. It could be done with Socket A, but with today's pinouts, you can forget about it.
I explored the idea of a CPU back side cooler some time ago, here:
http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/sho...&threadid=5438
(never actually did it though).