My latest mod for V1000+

Day03 · 9 Oct 2006 at 18:48

I've recently installed watercooling on the Asus A8N32-Sli mobo. The northbridge and southbridge are passively cooled using the heatpipe and a small heatsink. The heatsink is positioned between the CPU and a rear case fan. With air cooling the CPU this heatsink gets enough airflow to cool it but when watercooling is installed Asus tell you install this little blower fan to attach to this heatsink. This blower is exteremly noisy. As I want to have a very quiet PC it needed to go and to cool this heatpipe sufficiently I came up with this little mod. It's a plastic shroud that attaches to the rear exhaust fan and it directs air over the small heatpipe heatsink. With the exhaust fan running at 7v it reduces the mobo temp by around 3C with no extra noise

Here are a few pics:

Messiah Khan · 9 Oct 2006 at 18:56

Nice, simple little mod you have there.

Mekrel · 9 Oct 2006 at 19:37

Great little mod, obviously the exhaust isn't needed for the whole case as the components are water cooled. So nice to cool down the heatpipe abit more.

Nice idea and looks like a neat job too.

Begbie · 9 Oct 2006 at 22:54

simple but affective, nice one!