Anyone know of good, quiet solutions to watercool an nvidia 680i reference M/B?
I've upgraded to an evga 680i M/B and the north/southbridge heatpipe gets very hot. And I'm not going to use the tiny fan evga recommends I use (because it makes noise).
I could rip off the heatpipe and watercool the NB, but what to do about the SB then? Maybe I could watercool the NB and use a heavy duty heatpipe for the SB ... if I could find one....
Anyone know of a full watercooling solution for a standard 680i motherboard? ... these have been out for months now, must be something out there...
Note: Normally I'd just ignore the NB/SB, but it's so hot it heats up my case and is causing my harddrives I have in my 5.25 bays to shoot up to 55 celsius, over 15 c more than when using my old motherboard. That's a huge amount of heat it's generating...
Solutions for fully watercooling a 680i M/B ?
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another forum
watercooling in this website seems to be as dead as.
i suggest going to www.xtremesystems.com/forums
there is a guy there who has watercooled his new 6801 Abit board including photos and diagrams.
Cheers,
Dean
i suggest going to www.xtremesystems.com/forums
there is a guy there who has watercooled his new 6801 Abit board including photos and diagrams.
Cheers,
Dean
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Thanks. I'm more into quiet systems rather than "xtreme" systems - specifically I want an ultra-quiet but powerful system (that still looks good)... But that board looks much more useful than this one.dean.collins wrote:watercooling in this website seems to be as dead as.
i suggest going to www.xtremesystems.com/forums
there is a guy there who has watercooled his new 6801 Abit board including photos and diagrams.
Cheers,
Dean
Anyone can make an almost silent (but weak) system. And anyone can make a powerful (but noisy) overclocked system. But where's the challenge? Now try to have both, now that's a challenge.
And to do that, watercooling is the way forward.
So I'm surprised by the lack of activity here. I guess that people who want an ultra-quiet but powerful system are a small minority.
p.s. I've found a decent NB and SB cooler and will have something similar to those guys on xtreme systems. Specifically, going for the "Alphacool NexXxoS NB-SLI 1 Northbridge" on my SB and the "Danger Den DD-680i Chipset Block" for my NB - those two look ideal for a 680i board.
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xtreme
nah just because they talk about xtreme doesn't mean anything. Basically they talk a lot in other forums about overclocking etc but the water cooling section is all about quiet.
to keep you in the loop with my project I've just ordered a ton of equipment from Alphacool in germany.
the plan is to have a stack of Alphacool cape cora 'pipes' on the outside of my 48RU rack (I've ordered 18 as a test but I'm estimating about 30-40 by the time I finish).
basically this will then cool in a loop with a 1-6 manifold that splits the feed into 6 different pc's (cpu,gpu,hd,pwr supply) and then back into a 6-1 manifold which feeds into the cape cora tubes.
I've ordered everything I need to hook up 3 of them as a trial proof of concept and will post back once this is set up.
Cheers,
Dean
to keep you in the loop with my project I've just ordered a ton of equipment from Alphacool in germany.
the plan is to have a stack of Alphacool cape cora 'pipes' on the outside of my 48RU rack (I've ordered 18 as a test but I'm estimating about 30-40 by the time I finish).
basically this will then cool in a loop with a 1-6 manifold that splits the feed into 6 different pc's (cpu,gpu,hd,pwr supply) and then back into a 6-1 manifold which feeds into the cape cora tubes.
I've ordered everything I need to hook up 3 of them as a trial proof of concept and will post back once this is set up.
Cheers,
Dean
I was able to hack a DD maze 4 chipset block onto my 680i SB.
viewtopic.php?t=36554
Works pretty well, temps are usually 40C in BIOS for the MCP
viewtopic.php?t=36554
Works pretty well, temps are usually 40C in BIOS for the MCP