Motherboard & GPU blocks: Should I?

[JrRacinFan]

So here is a pic of my board and am looking into including it into my waterloop.

Should I? What blocks would I need? How would I cool the NF200?

For the 8800GTS 512MB; I usually run it at stock and it never reaches over 63C. Should I include it also?

The aspect of "if it isn't broke don't try to fix it" comes to mind. All advice considered and thanks in advance!

 

[aCid888*]

Why bother? The stock heatpipe layout and design looks fine to me, if anything, use a 40mm fan strapped to the Circupipe to cool the NB.

For the price of the blocks to cool the chipsets you could pick up another 512mb GTS and the gain would be far greater than water cooling your board.



Edit: Cooling the GPU(s) would be a good idea but I'd still get another GTS for now and crank out some more FPS in games.....cooling them can always happen later.

 

[JrRacinFan]

Good point: Your thoughts about the video card?

 

[aCid888*]

Edited my above post.

 

[zaqwsx]

Ya, I would leave the north and south bridge alone that heatsink is more than enough and if you do decide to cool them remember that your adding more connections which could cause more leaks and problems and the fact that you could take that extra money and buy something else. You could take the extra cash and use it to cool your gpu would be more worth it.

Edit: Also like acid said you could get another gpu!!

 

[JrRacinFan]

I do have an 80MM fan blowing acrossed the northbridge currently. Temps usually stay mid 40's low 50's. So going SLI do that before getting GPU blocks.


Good idea guys! Thanks much!