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Originally posted by Cathar
jaydee, no offense mate, but I think you need to switch to decaf coffee. Unlike some people, I never thinly veil an insult. If I'm going to insult you, there'll be no mistake.
The specs that I have above are for the P4 IHS. It is 30x30mm x 1.5mm thick, with a 1/16" hole sitting about 8mm in from one corner that needs to be plugged if you want to attempt what you're describing.
My concern about drilling into it is that no accident is made and one drills through the core.
I actually like the "drilling through the base of the block" idea better and I suggested something like this for direct-die cooling in another thread, but it could easily be applied here. Drill through the base of the (Cascade-style) block, and mill out an O-ring groove in the block base around the holes. Lap the IHS flat, stick some thermal paste on it (to facilitate thermal transfer into the cup walls). Throw an O-ring on the block and mount the block to the CPU. The pressure of the mounting will seal the O-ring to the IHS adequately.
[Edit: Bah - cross post with BigBen2K above while wife distracted me to fix a broken washing machine...]
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No no, I wasn't takeing it as an insult at all. I know I am ignorant am not insulted by someone pointing it out or the term being used to describe me.
I remeber talking about this in one of your threads before "someone" jumping my shit for no reason about it and it getting off the subject.
Why I havn't really thought about trying this before is I didn't think it would be really worth it. But the more I think about it the better it sounds. More so for the Opteron though. I am not sure there would be a benifit over just poping the IHS off the P4 and just using a normal Cascade style block.....