Ok I've got my basic watercooling rig setup on the go with a Asetek Waterchill kit and just a CPU block. I'm looking to the Graphics card cooled and possibly the northbridge. Now this is an i845GE board with the northbridge heatsink held on by those clips, so no mounting holes, just two hoops. Now I don't want to epoxy any waterbocks on so I am looking for a block which will accept the Intel type mounting and I understand the Aquacomputer Twinplex is one of the few blocks that will work out. The AC block and standard fittings are 6mm ID so I propose to run this on a separate loop to the Thermaltake Aquarius II radiator I have in my spare parts drawer. This takes an 80mm fan and fits nicely on the rear exhaust of a GW802. I don't see that the chipset needs a vast amount of cooling and don't see the need to mess with the main loop for this. Now I'm in a bit of a quandary with the GPU cooling. I'm currently looking at getting a 9600Pro or XT and I need a block to fit this. If I choose the AC block that should really go on the northbridge loop (6mm ID). If I choose the Xice or Asetek blocks, I could throw them in the main loop. All the blocks I'm seeing at around the £30-35 inc VAT and Postage. If anyone has any alternative I could try please do suggest them
You COULD make your own...then again, I know it's a trying and tiring process and you'd have to be dedicated. If not, look at the swiftech water cooling block for the GPU, but I dunno about the northbridge. Check the watercooling setup thread (where you post pics of your setup) and see if anyone has a similar board. That may help
Re: Next move fot my WC setup Like this? CM - some boards only have the two hoops (in the manufacturer's infinite wisdom) this is where the Twinplex CP4 mount comes into its own.
Thought as much.......was just checking before i recomended the Danger Den Intel 865/875 Z-Chip block
Actually, on some boards, we need to reverse the top for the clips to mate up. Which board did you actually have Risky? ^^^ There's a new revision too now with three stage clips to suit a wider variety of boards and keep clamping pressure to a maximum. Don't overdo it though, the springs are pretty heavy duty - I know of one example where someone tried to go for the third stage when the second was obviously enough...
Thanks for the response, The Board is an Aopen AX4GE Max and it has two hoops not 4 which can be seen on the magnified view here. I'm happy to go with the twinplex for the NB, I'm more concerned to come to a solution for the GPU. Now bear in mind I have 10mm OD tubing on the main loop, and will have 8mm OD and a very small pump (Either the Aquarius pump or a Ehiem Compact 300) and 80mm rad on the secondary.
Well, the twinplex GPU block inlet and outlet are too close together to allow the thread increasers I have to fit for 10mm push-fittings (but I do have 8mm to 10mm inline pushfit convertors). Alternatively, you have the option of your separate GPU/NB loop going 8mm only, as I see you mentioned.
I wouldn't want to mix bore/tube/fitting sizes in general. Thus the idea of the seperate look fot the NB. The issues outstanding really are: 1. If I was to use a Twinplex GPU cooler it would be on the Aux loop. Would the cooling provided by the tiny pump and rad be sufficient for the combined load? 2. If I'm putting the GPU on the main loop, what options are recommended, if I'm looking for 1/4 thread connections to use 10mm OD pushfits? I have seen the Asetek and Xice at GBP30ish. Any alternatives or comments?
Without testing that exact setup, I can't say much more than "I would imagine so." Sorry. With that said, if a CPU can be cooled by the same pump and rad, I would say that there shouldn't be a problem, what with the larger die contact area of the components in question by comparison to a cpu block... :shrug: I'm currently cooling a 2Ghz P4 celeron with a 120 rad wedged in front of the standard 80mm case fan in the missus's PC50, so you'd be surprised what's actually possible... (well, I was, anyway).
