Water Cooling VRM's - Is it worth it????

[leejc73]

Just after peoples opinions really.

The newer e.g. 1366 onwards motherboards have been well catered for regarding liquid cooling of VRM's but i'm playing with a 775 board at the minute and wondering if it's worth buying hard to obtain VRM blocks for taking a Q6700 to around 3.5/6 Ghz.

Cheers

Lee

 

[Vicey]

I don't think so no. The VRM's don't really need it. They have high temperature tolerances and don't get near the danger zone with the default cooling provided.

I had a QX6700 a few years ago and I got that to 3.6GHz with just water cooling the CPU so I know it can be done, if your chip has a good FSB range and doesn't need too much of a high volt and your board has a high enough GTLRef voltage you should be able to get to 3.5-3.6GHz

Which motherboard are you using?

 

[Diablo]

On the X79 boards, there is a point as the power going through the VRMs there is enough to overheat them. On a 775 board, it just isn't needed.