Asus P6T Deluxe Discussion Thread

[astrodanco]

Intresting, did you noticed any improvements in overclocking or stability?
Or perhaps it wont get so hot that it's a problem even without fan.
It's aluminium right?

The black fins part that screws to the underlying chipset heat sink is aluminum. I think the underlying chipset heat sink is a copper plated aluminum slab. Hard to imagine ASUS paying for solid copper. The 40mm fan is obviously plastic.

Back when I was on air cooling I was not using the ASUS fan and the 40mm fan. I also wasn't using the stock Intel cpu heat sink and fan. I was using just a Mugen-2 with a Scythe fan blowing through it rearward. So I'm not sure how much air either the MOSFETs or the chipset heat sink were getting when I was on air. Probably not much. On air I was running 3.2 GHZ 24/7.

When I switched to water cooling I added both the ASUS fan on the rear MOSFET heat sink and the 40mm fan on the chipset heat sink. I never actually even tried water cooling with out them. On water I'm running 4.0 GHZ 24/7.

I have not noticed any differences between having the fans there or not there, but then I haven't looked for any either. I've been told that the motherboard life would be shortened without either them (or something else to accomplish the same thing).

I'd certainly be willing to add an inexpensive water block to the underlying chipset heat sink instead of using the black fins and the 40mm fan. That would likely cool better than the black fins and 40mm fan do. I may do that. But I suspect it wouldn't make any difference, so I'm currently operating in "why bother?" mode.

What I'm not willing to do is to buy a full cover motherboard chipset water block AND two MOSFET blocks. For the price and inconvenience of adding all of those, I could more easily buy and swap in a new motherboard when/if mine eventually fails!