Hello,

I'm getting ready to put in a different motherboard, install a 980-X and want to try out the Indigo Extreme.

For those not familiar with it, you have to run your CPU under load with no cooling to heat the material, which lets it 'reflow' and make a perfectly even layer across your CPU. If you are water cooling the instructions direct you to turn off the pump and case fans, and that it only takes about 30 seconds at load to complete the process with your pump turned off. You then turn the pump back on.

My question about this:

My GPUs (5970s) are watercooled. Will they survive with the pump turned off, given that they won't be on long and won't be doing anything but desktop rendering? I don't have the stock coolers for them any longer.

Or should I create a CPU bypass in my water cooling loop, letting my GPUs continue to be cooled and just let the CPU heatup by itself? Then shut the thing down and reconnect the CPU to the loop? I can do this with relative ease using quick-disconnects, if that is the consensus.

Thanks for your feedback.