Worth it?

Jasoncmor · 2 Jan 2015 at 12:12

Hi all.

Is it worth watercooling the mobo? VRMs, chipsets and ram?

Cheers

Mayhems · 2 Jan 2015 at 13:26

Ram no, Chipset and VRM's Yes.

Ram is a waste of time just use normal air flow of the system to cool them.

Cerelia · 2 Jan 2015 at 14:04

It all depends on the mobo, I.e the later chipsets have better heatsinks on them, I've OC'd my x99 5930 to (Daily use is at 4.4ghz) and the vrm stays around 47-50c, Chipsets are only worth it if you're running SLI or crossfire, anything with high demand in that region.

Like mine is at 27c and its fine all the way to 45-50c.

pastymuncher · 2 Jan 2015 at 14:43

Depends on what socket you are on. I haven't done it since socket 775 as the modern chipsets and vrm's are more efficient and run cooler. Ram is just a waste of time. Mine doesn't even have heatsinks and is very cool to the touch even though it's overclocked and overvolted.

Jasoncmor · 2 Jan 2015 at 15:04

Cheers for your replys.

The plan is an i7 4790k, a z97 mobo, overclocked, and running a gtx 970 sli.

varkanoid · 2 Jan 2015 at 15:30

Just thinking about a watercool setup for my 970's SLI. Due to mount limitations I was just going to go with a 240 rad and watercool the GPU's and not bother with the CPU. It rarely goes over 55c anyway and I have a nice cooler on it along with it being delidded.