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More info?)
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:39:22 -0400, nospam@needed.com (Paul) wrote:
>In article <t96kb1t5rtg6cilbmfbfbr5r8ejchnkmem@4ax.com>,
>miller.90@spamlessosu.edu wrote:
>
>> >
>> >When you get that board running, tell us how hot that heatsink
>> >at the end of the heatpipe gets.
>> >
>> > Paul
>>
>> OK, I have it working while sitting on its antistatic bag on my
>> benchtop. All that's hooked up is the XP120 HSF, a fanless,
>> heat-pipe-cooled Gigabyte Radeon X800XL, the gig of Corsair 2-2-2-5
>> RAM, and a floppy drive. The following observations are with the
>> motherboard sitting in the BIOS setup program -- i.e., no load at all
>> on the CPU or southbridge.
>> I couldn't believe it, but I had to touch the southbridge for several
>> seconds to be sure that it was warmer than room temperature. It is,
>> but just barely. The heatpipe between the southbridge is literally
>> cool to the touch, and the heatsink, located way over behind the CPU
>> socket, is cool to the touch. The heatsinks on the video card are
>> cool to the touch. The 120mm fan on the XP120 is essentially
>> noiseless at 1900 RPM. The heatpipes and fins of the XP120 are cool
>> to the touch. BIOS hardware monitor reports the CPU to be 23°C under
>> these conditions
>>
>> I'll report further when I get the rig mounted in it's case with all
>> the drives hooked up and the CPU under load.
>>
>>
>> Ron
>
>I'm impressed. I figured that contraption would be a disaster.
>Guess I was wrong.
>
> Paul
I'm presuming that the metal heatpipe connector atop the chipset is
approximately the same temperature as the chipset. If it is, then,
yes, it works very well.
There is word on the Asus forums, however, that it works only in the
horizontal and traditional vertical positions. There are some Lian Li
cases that mount the motherboard against the opposite wall of the
case, thus turning the mobo upside down. In spite of the fact that
the heatpipe still runs mainly horizontally in this configuration, one
person there has reported that the chipset "overheats rapidly" in the
Lian Li V2100 case. For some reason, I'm skeptical about that report,
but I thought it best to pass it along for what it's worth.
Traditional positioning of the heatpipe:
Heatsink
|_________
\
chipset
Position in V2100:
chipset
\_________
|
Heatsink
Ron