lumo

iff i change my cooping to water do i need to remove the heatpipe and replace it by watercooling too?
Southbridge+mosfet+chipset

thanks in advance

IModAmd

If you want to had watercooling you need to put all your heatsinks and ect well when you go buy your watercooling you had pieces with it So read your instruction booklet well if you want your chipset to be water cooled is your choice

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lumo

the manual does not say anything... about the southbridge etc...
just to exchange the fan for the cpu (which is straight forward...)
a guy told me i have to exchange it, but i am not so sure, as a heatpipe does not require any fan... (he mentioned that the pipe requires the fan from the cpu)
but thats what a heatpipe is made for FANLESS?!

Cannyone

If there is enough air flow through your case then you may not have to watercool the motherboard components. Also depending on the setup, you may not need to watercool the motherboard. The key factor is how hot does your motherboard get?

For Example: I have been using a Lian Li PC-V600 case (Very small for a "full ATX" Case) for my 939-pin AMD system (the motherboard is an Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe). This combination didn't get that hot. However, I proceeded to "upgrade" the CPU, motherboard, and RAM. The second setup in the old case reported a motherboard temp of around 48°C! And that's not under a load, that's just idle temps.

The other factor involved is that each "bend" in a liquid cooling system slows down the "flow". So ideally speaking you don't really want allot of components on the same "line". What seems to work best is to start with a large (as in high capacity - or diameter) line, then have it branch into smaller lines for say CPU, Video Card, and Chipset. This keeps the flow through each line higher.

lumo

i got an thermaltake armor tower (big-tower)
with LCS -> 3x12cm fans in addition i got an enermax liberty with also an 12cm supersilent fan, should be good airflow and enough space!
just saw that my asus p5w dh deluxe got an LCS cooling fan
-> means i put it in the waterpipe and it creates an airflow to the heatpipe (didnt know that it was for this feature )

i did not understand why should it slow down the flow? you push the aqua in and it comes out on the other side... as you cant compress water...

and how should you split it up into smaller lines??

Cannyone

Oh, yeah! I forgot that feature as well. Those fans are one of the reasons I was looking at that board myself.

Well water doesn't compress, but it does slow down when it is forced to make turns. That's just part of the way that liquids work in a closed loop. This is especially true when it entails turns that are 90° or more. A CPU water-block will have 2 90° turns, and every block after that will have the same. Ask anyone who has water-cooled with any type of "flow gauge" and they'll tell you the same. This happens because of "back pressure" generated in making the turn.

To split up the lines you normally get a pair of adapters that are say 10mm OD (Outside Diameter) on one end, and has a "Y" with two 6mm OD outlets. Then you connect you connect a loop going to your CPU and a second to your video card. Then both "loops" should drop about the same amount of pressure. I just pick those dimensions because that is what I've used in the past. (And I've also had a CPU and Video Card in series - which didn't work so well...)

lumo

well i will look into that, but afaik my cpu and video card coolers have both 10mm connectors (it did not arrive yet!)

Cannyone

Yeah, that Thermaltake LCS setup would probably come with 10mm connectors and they expect you to put the video cooler, in-series, or in-line with the CPU cooler. It will still work. Just not quite as well as it could with two parallel loops.

lumo

well i now got the mainboard coolers for half price!! so i do not need to mount the PVC fan... still all inline (probably change that later - when i am more into it)

i would moint it this direction:
MB-coolers -> CPU -> GPU in order to get the cooling better as cpu uis hotter than mb and the gpu is the hottest!

IModAmd

Well good luck bro

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