Looking for a good north bridge water block

[Acanthus]

My GA-P35-DS3R northbridge runs extremely hot (excess of 70C at load) and im looking to watercool it.

However i only have 2 Zalman GPU waterblocks from my resorator, im thinking about just using thermal tape to attach it as i dont think with any active cooling at all that its going to get very hot...

My other options are a few of the north bridge specific waterblocks out there, all of which seem to have issues with intels push pin mounting method.

These are the 3 i was looking at:

Swiftech MCW30

Koolance CHC-120

and finally the

Danger Den DD - Maze 4 Chipset Block

Cost is a concern as i just bought all my books for next semester and got cleaned out by the lab courses... So im hoping to find a way to mount the zalman blocks to the mobo. I have tried the normal mounting method for the large VGA block but i cant seem to get good contact, the block was cold but i was reading 51C idle in the bios after about 20 mins...

Will cheap thermal tape likely work?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Cheap as Free

This can be very effective at cooling motherboard components, and it's cheap.

Water-cooling only complicates it slightly, because the panels must fit around your hoses without either defeating the purpose of the panels or obstructing access to the hoses.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
Cheap as Free

This can be very effective at cooling motherboard components, and it's cheap.

Water-cooling only complicates it slightly, because the panels must fit around your hoses without either defeating the purpose of the panels or obstructing access to the hoses.

ROFL sorry duck but you need to look at how old that post is, and what components there using. Its terribly old fashioned. It looks like im looking at an old car from where i stand at:

"It was an Athlon 2500+ @ 3200+ with a Swiftech block, 1986 Chevette heater core and Eheim 1250 pump - all ½" internal flow. This water-based mod was awesome at being ultra-quiet and ran very cool."

ummm.... all i need to say is WOW. Thats some old stuff there.


Anyhow back ontopic. I highly recomend the MCW30. There easily convertable on almost any platform you need them to work on. And there fairly simple in design. Also they offer the least amount of flow restrictions out of all the blocks you listed.


And no cheap thermal tape wont work on waterblocks. You need to use TIM and then mount it using a mounting kit provided by the block to make them work most effectively.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
Cheap as Free

This can be very effective at cooling motherboard components, and it's cheap.

Water-cooling only complicates it slightly, because the panels must fit around your hoses without either defeating the purpose of the panels or obstructing access to the hoses.

ROFL sorry duck but you need to look at how old that post is, and what components there using. Its terribly old fashioned. It looks like im looking at an old car from where i stand at:

"It was an Athlon 2500+ @ 3200+ with a Swiftech block, 1986 Chevette heater core and Eheim 1250 pump - all ½" internal flow. This water-based mod was awesome at being ultra-quiet and ran very cool."

ummm.... all i need to say is WOW. Thats some old stuff there.


Anyhow back ontopic. I highly recomend the MCW30. There easily convertable on almost any platform you need them to work on. And there fairly simple in design. Also they offer the least amount of flow restrictions out of all the blocks you listed.


And no cheap thermal tape wont work on waterblocks. You need to use TIM and then mount it using a mounting kit provided by the block to make them work most effectively.

Thanks for your post aigo, if you read the newegg reviews on the swiftech however they complain pretty consistantly that it doesnt mount properly on intel chipsets.

I know the thermal tape wont be optimal, im just wondering if it will be enough to get acceptable temps...

Im not worried about flow restrictions at all, the watercooling system i run is modular in design, 1 pump and at least 1 radiator for each component, with entirely seperate tanks and loops.

In the case of the northbridge, its a Zalman Resorator 1 that loops ONLY to the north bridge and back outside of the case again, so flow restriction certainly isnt an issue.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
Cheap as Free

This can be very effective at cooling motherboard components, and it's cheap.

Water-cooling only complicates it slightly, because the panels must fit around your hoses without either defeating the purpose of the panels or obstructing access to the hoses.

ROFL sorry duck but you need to look at how old that post is, and what components there using. Its terribly old fashioned. It looks like im looking at an old car from where i stand at:

"It was an Athlon 2500+ @ 3200+ with a Swiftech block, 1986 Chevette heater core and Eheim 1250 pump - all ½" internal flow. This water-based mod was awesome at being ultra-quiet and ran very cool."

ummm.... all i need to say is WOW. Thats some old stuff there.


Anyhow back ontopic. I highly recomend the MCW30. There easily convertable on almost any platform you need them to work on. And there fairly simple in design. Also they offer the least amount of flow restrictions out of all the blocks you listed.


And no cheap thermal tape wont work on waterblocks. You need to use TIM and then mount it using a mounting kit provided by the block to make them work most effectively.

Thanks for your post aigo, if you read the newegg reviews on the swiftech however they complain pretty consistantly that it doesnt mount properly on intel chipsets.

I know the thermal tape wont be optimal, im just wondering if it will be enough to get acceptable temps...

Im not worried about flow restrictions at all, the watercooling system i run is modular in design, 1 pump and at least 1 radiator for each component, with entirely seperate tanks and loops.

In the case of the northbridge, its a Zalman Resorator 1 that loops ONLY to the north bridge and back outside of the case again, so flow restriction certainly isnt an issue.

UHHHHH... thermalright HR-05 FTW!

Dont get any of the blocks you listed. You will mix metals using that reserator, and you'll run into corrosion nightmares down the road.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
Cheap as Free

This can be very effective at cooling motherboard components, and it's cheap.

Water-cooling only complicates it slightly, because the panels must fit around your hoses without either defeating the purpose of the panels or obstructing access to the hoses.

ROFL sorry duck but you need to look at how old that post is, and what components there using. Its terribly old fashioned. It looks like im looking at an old car from where i stand at:

"It was an Athlon 2500+ @ 3200+ with a Swiftech block, 1986 Chevette heater core and Eheim 1250 pump - all ½" internal flow. This water-based mod was awesome at being ultra-quiet and ran very cool."

ummm.... all i need to say is WOW. Thats some old stuff there.


Anyhow back ontopic. I highly recomend the MCW30. There easily convertable on almost any platform you need them to work on. And there fairly simple in design. Also they offer the least amount of flow restrictions out of all the blocks you listed.


And no cheap thermal tape wont work on waterblocks. You need to use TIM and then mount it using a mounting kit provided by the block to make them work most effectively.

Thanks for your post aigo, if you read the newegg reviews on the swiftech however they complain pretty consistantly that it doesnt mount properly on intel chipsets.

I know the thermal tape wont be optimal, im just wondering if it will be enough to get acceptable temps...

Im not worried about flow restrictions at all, the watercooling system i run is modular in design, 1 pump and at least 1 radiator for each component, with entirely seperate tanks and loops.

In the case of the northbridge, its a Zalman Resorator 1 that loops ONLY to the north bridge and back outside of the case again, so flow restriction certainly isnt an issue.

UHHHHH... thermalright HR-05 FTW!

Dont get any of the blocks you listed. You will mix metals using that reserator, and you'll run into corrosion nightmares down the road.

Ill look into the H05.

mixing copper and aluminum in a watercooling solution can accelerate corrosion? News to me.

Edit:

"it looked nice in case howver its just TOO heavy for a tower and the mount hardware provided is less than adequate."

"no good way to mount this thing BUT thermal epoxy is a solution ***WARNING*** this will permanently attach the cooler and if you attempt to remove it just buy a new mobo."

"sit very very loose on the chipset "

"Cons: Poor retention system,price,no fan mounting provisions."

"Does NOT mount properly on an Asus P5N-E SLI 650i board. It does mount, but you have to twist it some. Mounting ended up being quite a pita. Will not mount on the P5N with any aftermarket CPU cooler installed (Tuniq, Ninja, Big Typhoon etc...)"

"Seating right is very difficult... Anything touching the heatsink (even lightly) will cause it to lose contact surface due to the leverage force/length of the heatsink."

 

[aigomorla]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...ighlight=mixing+metals

in your case its the other way around. The radiator aka reserator is the alu pot. And the waterblock is the copper. So your corrosion would cause a pinhole in the reserator sometime down the road.

And yes its happened to my cousin, and yes it was a very big and bad nightmare cleaning it up.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: aigomorla
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...ighlight=mixing+metals

in your case its the other way around. The radiator aka reserator is the alu pot. And the waterblock is the copper. So your corrosion would cause a pinhole in the reserator sometime down the road.

And yes its happened to my cousin, and yes it was a very big and bad nightmare cleaning it up.

Im not too worried about it, the resorator tank is is a good 1/8" thick, the VGA block im trying mount also appears to be anodized aluminum, so im not mixing types if i can get it mounted.

Im about to give it another shot in about an hour, got it mounted with like 5 washers stacked up on the screws... haha

Edit: after reading the xsystems post, the guy used no anti corrosion at all, i run pure antifreeze.