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eXacto · 03-27-2006, 08:36 PM

Back over a year or more ago I bought a Swiftech MCP300 pump, MCW50 video card block, and MCW5000 CPU block. These were heavy duty blocks at the time but now I see that there are much more fancy blocks. I haven't even been running water cooling for the past year because I've just been too busy to put it back in my system after my first MCP300 crapped out, and now I'm afraid to use the replacement I got because they are notoriously bad. I'd like to get back into watercooling though because I have a nice single-pass radiator (2-342, is that still pretty good?) that I modified a while back and never put it into use.

I'm thinking I can keep the MCW50 because it appears that I can buy new mounting brackets from Swiftech. My question is, should I upgrade the CPU block? I don't even know if I can get a Socket 939 mounting plate for this block, which was originally made for P4 and older Athlon sockets (can't remember exactly). I know I'm going to get a new pump, so I'll be researching that soon, but as for the GPU and CPU blocks, what's new? I haven't paid attention to watercooling gear in so long that I have no idea what's out there.

Thanks.

p.s. I have an old P4 heatsink that I want to attach to my northbridge (stock coolers are just horrible, really). Is there a kind of thermal paste/glue that will be strong but not enough to prevent me from ever getting the heatsink off without ripping the chip off with it?

03-27-2006, 08:36 PM	#1
eXacto Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: San Francisco Posts: 24	Been out of the loop for a long time... Back over a year or more ago I bought a Swiftech MCP300 pump, MCW50 video card block, and MCW5000 CPU block. These were heavy duty blocks at the time but now I see that there are much more fancy blocks. I haven't even been running water cooling for the past year because I've just been too busy to put it back in my system after my first MCP300 crapped out, and now I'm afraid to use the replacement I got because they are notoriously bad. I'd like to get back into watercooling though because I have a nice single-pass radiator (2-342, is that still pretty good?) that I modified a while back and never put it into use. I'm thinking I can keep the MCW50 because it appears that I can buy new mounting brackets from Swiftech. My question is, should I upgrade the CPU block? I don't even know if I can get a Socket 939 mounting plate for this block, which was originally made for P4 and older Athlon sockets (can't remember exactly). I know I'm going to get a new pump, so I'll be researching that soon, but as for the GPU and CPU blocks, what's new? I haven't paid attention to watercooling gear in so long that I have no idea what's out there. Thanks. p.s. I have an old P4 heatsink that I want to attach to my northbridge (stock coolers are just horrible, really). Is there a kind of thermal paste/glue that will be strong but not enough to prevent me from ever getting the heatsink off without ripping the chip off with it? Last edited by eXacto; 03-27-2006 at 09:09 PM.