New waterblock for gigabyte x58 UD5

[RobinL]

There will be an new waterblock for the gigabyte x58 UD5 so all cards will fitt.

I have bought this motherboard 3/4 weeks ago. And then i find out the problem with the stock North bridge heatsink that blocks the upper slots of this board.

I need to use that slots for my config.

I want to put in de first slot an PCi-express soundcard.
Then i need the second slot for the ageia physx pci-express 1x card.

The first 16 pci-express will be for the first videocard. And the second for the second videocard (I want only to run SLI of crossfire with 2 card and no more..)

The last slot i want to use it for an Raid pci-express 8x card to connect four OCZ 60GB Vertex SSDs..

So i contacted a few companys..

Koolance has no plans for it (they where busy with the block for the EVGA board)

Also EK hasn`t no plans for it.

So then i contacted MIPS. And they mailed my back.

So i gave my idea to make an better block.



And now they are busy to make an new one for the gigabyte UD5 motherboard.

I Love MIPS.

The mails i getting back:

hello robin,
many thanks for your request.

please check the following points:

our freezer has 15mm height + height of the x58 nb at this place, is their
enough height space for any cards in slot 1 or 2 ??

if it is, then we could try to place the connection between the x1 and x4 slot.

all other solutions needs a complete redesign and a bigger block.

we was thinking about your idea.
13mm thickness could maybe work but 12.5mm not with Pom material.
When we make the block 13mm thick then you can not take more material with the lathe.
There is no more material to take out. If so we could do it by our self.

We can also not guaranty that 13mm thickness will work because at some points there will be only 0.5mm material remaining.
This area is not forced with pressure but 0.5mm is very weak by this kind of material and bates the remaining material.
The middle plate and upper plate from Pom with 5mm thickness insteed of 6mm could cause problems for the sealing because the material is not so strong.
This we have to take a look for if it works.

The flow section decrease also a little bit.

If there is no 13mm space then we can forget it !

we still working on it.