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Originally Posted by froggy_newb so i'm thinking of taking off the entire heatpipe system, cutting inbetween the NB and the first MOSFET heatsink, then pinching it down or clamping the open pipe down, and soldering it shut. think it will work?

It's possible, but you have to have the proper tools to re seal the heatpipe in a way so that it will still do it's job of conducting heat.

Heat pipes contain a 'actuating' medium, be it distilled water or any other form of gas or liquid which is essential in transfering the heat along the hollow pipe's course.

This does not mean that when and if you cut your heat pipes, your actually going to be able to see a liquid because you may or may not depending on what the actuating medium is.

That's one hurdle ...

The second hurdle standing in your way is actually evacuating the tube of all air and then resealing while evacuated ... another essential step in making your heatpipe work.

Not a simple process.

Anyway, if you want some starter reading material ... check this mad man's site where he goes into great detail regarding his process of making homemade heatpipes.

In this link, I've linked directly to the page of a certain project where he is evacuating and sealing the pipe: http://www.silentmods.com/section2/item247/part3

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Enjoy!

 

so there can't be air in the tube?

i quit.

 

actually, now that i think of it, i won't really need the heatpipes. the MOSFETs are directly under the heatsink so they won't really need to use pipes to transport heat.

 

You can try and shorten them but it will probably be more work then just getting a cooling block for the mosfet's and adding it to your water loop.

 

don't ever cut a heatpipe unless you just want to see what's inside. you will ruin it.

 

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Originally Posted by DiagnosisDirt You can try and shorten them but it will probably be more work then just getting a cooling block for the mosfet's and adding it to your water loop.

i would do that, but i don't want a million blocks on my loop. and i don't want more than 1 loop.

but look at this:

if i cut where the red x is, i won't really need heatpipes anymore, since the MOSFETS are already under a heatsink and won't need to transport heat. i'm going to replace the northbridge and southbridge by a waterblock and an enzotech heatsink.

 

That would work... but you'd be destroying some perfectly good heatpipe coolers...

 

Do it !
Make a FAQ out of it !
Good Luck.

 

Bad idea dude, those things are vaccumed sealed usually, break the vaccum you break the heatpipe.

Btw you can buy water blocks for the mosfets on that board. I think you'd be better off just ripping that whole heatpipe system out and buying some ramsinks and putting em on the mosfets.

But i would think the heatsinks themselves would be just fine, as the ones i have on my 680i and are in the same place cool just fine as long as you replace the 2 inch layer of the thermal crap under them with arctic silver. Otherwise your ram will crap out