Two questions about the Asus P5E WS

[Tyler Durden]

Firstly, as mentioned in another thread - does anyone liquid cool the northbridge? If so, should there be replacement cooling on the voltage regulators? Could exposed regulators cause a board to fail?

Second, are there problems with the Firewire as there were on the P5K WS - Is there a fix for Vista? The Via chip I believe.

THANKS

 

[pastymuncher]

I have the P5e and have the NB watercooled by a XSPC X20 block. My heatsink contraption was worse than your though as it stretched all the way from the SB all the way up to the left of the cpu socket. It was a nightmare to get off as Asus uses some sort of thermal epoxy to fit them. My heatpipes were actually in two parts so i was able to leave the ones on that covered the mosfets etc around the cpu socket. They do get warm so i would get some of the Thermalright mosfet coolers for them.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Thanks for the reply

The P5E WS Pro does not seem to have the same epoxy issue - I hope!
I ordered two liquid mosfet coolers so I hope my possibly overheating Vreg is a thing of the past....

It will be a lot of tubing with chipset, cpu, gfx, scsi and vreg all liquid cooled!

Anyone run without mosfet cooling? I am thinking I killed the P5W WS by doing just that Silly me