These new heatpipe mobos are pissing me off since I can't mount them upside down in a Lian Li V1000 case. And rather than WC'ing them since WC'ing chipsets seem a bit of a waste and add unnecessary clutter, I was thinking of a good way to replace them with passive or active chipset coolers. Looking for performance and quality rather than low cost. Anyone know what chipset coolers will fit on this mobo and not get in the way of any cards? Also, is the radiator end of that heatpipe cooling anything underneath it? Will I need a replacement for that as well? (If it is, then worried this might be too obscure and something I won't be able to find). -L6
if its just a standard chipset, with nothing under the copper things then just put a zalman blue thing on it?
Well as said above, you could use a Zalman passive cooler, but you also need to keep the Voltage regulators cool too(in other words yes teh fins near the "top" of the motherboard cool componants too)...If your not using SLi, it maybe an idea to sell the A8N32 and get the A8R MVP maybe ?
Hmm... yeah I think I might just do that, or get the A8R32-MVP and get a X1900XTX. Playing Oblivion on a 6600GT now and it's a bit of an eye sore. Also, is it just me, or do other people not like mixing mobo and gpu chipset manufacturers? I tend to like to keep Ati GPUs with Ati mobos, and Nvidia GPUs with Nvidia GPUs.
Uh... I've seen plenty mounted in a V case. Also, don't heatpipes have wicks? Thereby the reason heatpipe coolers for CPU's work? Right? If the cooler works in any orientation, then obviously the heatpipes do. Right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe That says that heatpipes have wicks, thereby the reason that you can use them in any orientation without a huge performance hit. Right?
Some use a coating along the inside instead of using wicks and the "capillary action" (it's actually more like adhesion) isn't as strong, some heat pipes don't use wicks at all. The heatpipe on the A8N32 is also really long... Asus doesn't mention what the internals of those heatpipes are like, so I'd rather not take a gamble. I always thought heatpipes work similar to the way condensers in a distilling aparatus work. Anyone wanna do a small test? Do some temp measurements with the board right side up and up side down, see if there's a difference?
Common miscomception and is FALSE that heat pipes do not have orientation Clearly when the liquid inside the heat pipe, when gaining in energy will evaporate, as we all know, hot air/vapor is less dense then it's liquid form , therefore it moves UP. similar to a thermosyphon, the hot vapor must be able to travel UP the heat pipe to the main heat exchanger then be wicked down to the bottom to repeat.
I'm not saying that there's absolutely no difference in performance relevant to orientation. However, if the UP/DOWN theory is correct, how do heatpipe coolers on graphics cards work? You know, the ones that go UP from the GPU and then DOWN to the fins? Or on CPU's? If mounted in a normal case, the heatpipes go UP from the base, curve, and then go DOWN into the fins?
I've seen bad things happen with heatpipe-cooled chipsets in V-series cases. NBs hot enough to fry an egg on, for instance. (P5N32-SLI, in a V-1000+. NB kept overheating and shutting the system down. It was hot enough that just brushing it burned my hand.) I would suggest going with the A8R-MVP instead.
the whole evaporation theory does make sense, but can i alse introduce the fact that heat travels from an area of high heat to one of lower heat and therefore where the fins are is cooler and so the heat will flow from the hotter nb end to the cooler finned end. In a normal orientation these effects help each other, but upside down they act against each other. Surely if there is a peoblem with mounting the board upside down asus would mention it on their website, may well be worth a look, seeing as more cases are becoming BTX these days.
