Can anyone see a problem with this . .

Jaswan · 26 Sep 2013 at 18:49

Hi

I have in my garage some old water blocks one from a Pentium 4 (socket 478 I believe) and the other from a Athlon Barton Socket A

Anyhow, what I was thinking of doing is, using some 2.5mm aluminium plate, make a top cover that will screw onto the top of the block (on top of the original acrylic top plate) with holes to allow it to mount to a 1150 socket.

After a little Google (and iv not had hands on the parts to compare sizes) but a I5 is roughly 1.48 x 1.48 inches, the p4 is 1.38 x 1.38 and socket A is 2.06 x 2.06 inches.

So, I am thinking, once I get the bits in my hands, and so long as the water block more than covers the heat spreader on the I5 and I make a plate for the top of the block with the correct holes in there shouldn't be a problem?

any thoughts?

Jason.

ubersonic · 26 Sep 2013 at 19:02

It would work but performance wouldn't be as good as a newer block, plus you would have to run coolant with corrosion inhibitor to stop the aluminium causing issues.

Avathar77 · 26 Sep 2013 at 19:06

Is it worth all that trouble?

JonJ678 · 26 Sep 2013 at 19:11

It'll work fine. Best check the old blocks are copper. There's no reason to have the aluminium plate in the water path so that's a non-issue

Jaswan · 26 Sep 2013 at 19:15

the aluminium wouldnt be in contact with the water, it would just sit on the top face and allow me to mount it into the "new" holes.

I dont think it would be a very hard job to be fair, and it will be a little different

on the performance side, my train of thought is that these blocks were for older, higher wattage CPUs, so it should handle a "cooler" i5. or am I off of the facts?

Jason.