Quote Originally Posted by Six View Post
About the Mips block.
You should not wonder that your temps are high when you dont use the INCLUDED thermal compound. It dont conduct electricity.
Every mosfet needs a big drop because the block has no or few contact to avoid damage from the high sensitive mosfets.
The block has two feets to get the correct distance to the mosfets.

If you dont want to cool the CPLs there is a simple way.
Dont put thermal compound on the CPLs like you did on the mosfets.
There is enough space to dont have contact for cooling.

People who want to cool the CPLs should put a lot of thermal compound because there is realy a big space to fill !
My MIPS MCH 149 looks like this at the bottom


I did sth like this to make good (maybe to good acording to CPLs) thermal transfer to waterblock.


BUT the most important is that high temps IMHO refer just to highly clocked Quads, DualCore CPUs make less stress for PWM/CPLs - I had quite high temps using Q6700@3,6GHz/1,45Vcore and about 20oC temperature drop after installing E8500@4GHz/1,37Vcore

MIPS MCH 149 is good waterblock and I definitely try your suggestion if I only force myself to rebuild my WC