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New DC rig is on its way.

As far as I know of, the Northbridge on most motherboards these days can take quite a bit of abuse. You *should* be fine with passive cooling (whatever your case has for cooling intake on the front), assuming you aren't going crazy high on the overclock.

I believe the Cases & Cooling folks will have additional guidance on your request, but my vote is passive cooling.
 
somethingsketchy said:
As far as I know of, the Northbridge on most motherboards these days can take quite a bit of abuse. You *should* be fine with passive cooling (whatever your case has for cooling intake on the front), assuming you aren't going crazy high on the overclock.

I believe the Cases & Cooling folks will have additional guidance on your request, but my vote is passive cooling.
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Passive cooling will be problematic because most case fans will be blowing through a radiator.

I have plenty of tubing.

Thanks for the suggestion of Cases & Cooling. I'll put a link there.
 
You end up going with the FX 9590 Rudy? If so, I look forward to seeing how it performs. I've seen one doing well at Universe@home.
 
Bradtech519 said:
You end up going with the FX 9590 Rudy? If so, I look forward to seeing how it performs. I've seen one doing well at Universe@home.
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I did! The only thing I have left to buy is the mobo. I've got the VRM and NB water block on order (back ordered, s/b available on 22nd).

cpu
mobo
mobo cooling
32GB AMD Radeon™ R9 Gamer Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 2400 MHz CL11
Ram cooling 4x (6x is shown)
1200W psu and Nanoxia Deep Silence 1 case
 
Rudy Toody said:
...and water-cooling jokes.
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Your best bet for liquid cooling, for ALL components attached to the MB, is to remove all fans from heatsinks and submerse the MB/CPU/GPU(s) in electrical transformer oil, which naturally will need to flow through a radiator for cooling, or it's possible to have a finned aluminum enclosure to passively draw off the heat from the cooling oil.

I seem to remember a CRAY supercomputer or two being cooled in such a manner back in the not good (processing power-wise) old days.
 
TennesseeTony said:
Your best bet for liquid cooling, for ALL components attached to the MB, is to remove all fans from heatsinks and submerse the MB/CPU/GPU(s) in electrical transformer oil, which naturally will need to flow through a radiator for cooling, or it's possible to have a finned aluminum enclosure to passively draw off the heat from the cooling oil.

I seem to remember a CRAY supercomputer or two being cooled in such a manner back in the not good (processing power-wise) old days.
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Here is one with the fans still running.
 
LOL! Although I was just teasing, I did know it was actually possible. But I wasn't aware that (according to the article) that it would last for years. The article I read years ago indicated that eventually pollutants get introduced into the liquid that causes it to begin to conduct electricity.

Good find!
 
TennesseeTony said:
LOL! Although I was just teasing, I did know it was actually possible. But I wasn't aware that (according to the article) that it would last for years. The article I read years ago indicated that eventually pollutants get introduced into the liquid that causes it to begin to conduct electricity.

Good find!
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I've been following those guys since they started that project. They had to buy the mineral oil from a veterinarian. It's usually used as a mule purge!
 
Which projects you plan on getting back into Rudy? I've been enjoying the new Universe@home project after hitting a little over 2.1M in Pogs. Universe@home seems to be AMD friendly. At 4.4 GHz I shaved off around 3-4 minutes per Workunit going from 4.0 GHz stock. It takes the latest 4k series Intel's to pull away completing tasks around 1900-2000 seconds compared to my FX 8350 @ 4.4 GHz getting 2100-2200. Some 3k I7's are hitting 2200-2300.
 
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