asus k8v chipset cooler question

[gotensan01]

I water cooled my rig with cpu, chipset, and gpu blocks. Now I'm considering taking off my chipset block because I think it's just adding head and pressure loss with the extra tubing and what not.

If any of you know about the asus k8v mobo, it has a cheap, aluminum heatsink for the chipset. I know asus says that it doesn't get very hot and that the hs is all you'll need, I'm thinking otherwise. I remember the aluminum hs got very warm when I was running stock everything, that's why I originally decided to water cool the chipset as well.

My question now is if the aluminum hs is really enough. You should also consider the fact that I've been trying to overclock but couldn't successfully do it. If I can figure out how to overclock while using my SATA drive, I will. Otherwise I guess I have no choice but to run normal speeds. Do you think the stock hs will be enough even if I overclock by about 200mhz?

Right now my rig is pretty quiet and I'd like to keep it that way. I don't know if adding a hsf for chipset will add much noise.

 

[gotensan01]

hlp

 

[MDE]

You could use an aftermarket air cooler for the chipset (like one of the Zalman coolers).

 

[gotensan01]

Do you think the stock heat sink isn't enough? Would adding something like a zalman produce much extra noise?

 

[MDE]

Zalman specializes in low-to-no noise cooling, so something like this would be better than the stock heatsink and still totally silent due to not having a fan. The stock heatsink is probably enough, except for heavy duty overclocking, where most people would replace the stock solution anyways, so Asus can't really be faulted for the wimpy little heatsink on there.

 

[gotensan01]

Cool, thanks for your help MDE. Now I just have to decide whether or not to get another hs.