Retail (Newegg) 6800 gets SMOKED (good way)

[Mr. Popo]

it might sound like a stupid idea, but...

what if i put my phase on the P5W CHIPSET, and used high end air for the CPU? do you think itd get the same/better than phase on CPU and stock chipset solution?

Now that's just stupid, use some quality W/C for chipset and the SS on CPU.
The northbridge can get pretty hot but not like the CPU.

[K.I.T.T.]

Now that's just stupid, use some quality W/C for chipset and the SS on CPU.
The northbridge can get pretty hot but not like the CPU.

NB can get VERY hot indeed. and water doesn't have any effect on improving yields on NB. Only sub zero does to some extent.

[Zardokk]

NB can get VERY hot indeed. and water doesn't have any effect on improving yields on NB. Only sub zero does to some extent.

There is a solution to that. Not too long ago, I saw a phase cooler with 3 seperate heads. One fore CPU, one for chipset, one for GPU. Now granted, it probably got maybe -15 to -20C temps at best, it's still subzero and it would still yield very good results.

[Stigma]

There is a solution to that. Not too long ago, I saw a phase cooler with 3 seperate heads. One fore CPU, one for chipset, one for GPU. Now granted, it probably got maybe -15 to -20C temps at best, it's still subzero and it would still yield very good results.

peltier+water is a good solution if you wanna go nuts. While peltiers normally need to be super-powered to handle a hot overclocked CPU, the northbridge does not produce anywhere near as much heat. While I' not sure how much we are talking about, I doubt it could be more than 5-12 watts or thereabouts. In other words, a small inexpensive 80watt peltier should be able to bring it to sub-zero. An 80watt peltier like this
http://www.dangerdenstore.com/produc...&cat=30&page=1
will use well under 100watts even at peak, and thus could alos easily be run on your primary PSU at 12volt as long as you have a reasonably beefy one (which is usually the case for us overclockers).

So yea... theres your solution when it comes to subzero northbridge cooling. much less complex and much cheaper than a "hydra" phasecooler for sure =)

While it is a lot of effort to squeeze out a few extra Mhz, I'd guess you'd see a noticable increase compared to stock cooling at the very least.

-Stigma