crosshair v formula-z (Help needed)

[HaizRail007]

Hello, I'm running a crosshair v formula-z motherboard and I need help with finding a water cooling block or blocks for the vrm and/or mosfets. I'm not sure what the correct term is. The reason I need the north bridge and voltages water cooled is because I'm running the dreaded amd fx 9590 cpu. Now I've got the cpu under a custom water cooling loop but like I said I need to add the vrm to it. Now here's the problem from the research I've done ek made a water block for this board but it's no longer in production and I couldn't find it on sites such as, ebay or amazon. here is a link to the out of production water block I'm referring to

https://www.amazon.co.uk/EK-Motherboard-Waterblock-Crosshair-Formula/dp/B00AZJYYI0

Now with finding out that this was out of production and I can't find it I continued to look for a alternative and I ran across this water block

https://modmymods.com/watercool-heatkiller-mb-set-asus-crosshair-v-lt.html

Now this water block is for the crosshair v formula

Moreover, will this work for the crosshair v formula z or is this water block incompatible.

I'm not sure if there is any difference between the crosshair v formula and the crosshair v formula z when it comes to the north bridge. layout because I don't want to buy something thats not going to work. thank you very much

New Information I just got a message from modmymods and they said that the above waterblock will not work for the formula z board.

this is the email I received

I have checked this out for a few customers and actually have contacted Watercool to get confirmation. The Heatkiller block will not work on the -Z board. Your only option is to find someone selling the used EK block or you find a universal Mosfet cooler. (I would recommend the universal Koolance VRM cooler. You measure out the space you need to cover and find the matching transfer plate.



https://koolance.com/index.php?route=product/search&filter_name=mosfet



We can get the koolance parts for you but I will be honest it is cheaper to purchase the product from Koolance directly.



If you have any other questions please feel free.



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Joe Gialanella
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Now since I can't find the ek vrm waterblock I'll need to go with a universal.

Does any or have anyone dealt with water cooling this board crosshair v formula z vrm mosfests. I know I'm going to need a 2 waterblocks and 1 north bridge waterblock. could anybody recommend anything that would help or even fix my issue. either from the above link from koolance or somewhere else. it's going to come down to measuring both mosfets and I don't have the right tools to measure the spacing, furthermore, with the different measurements of standard and metric it gets even more confusing and I'm not a math wiz either. so any help would be grate. thanks

 

[Ecky]

I can't help with finding a waterblock, but I'm going to give the possibly unpopular recommendation that you cut your losses here.

FX CPU costs:
Motherboard - $175(ish)
Custom watercooling loop - let's call it $250?
CPU - $200
Motherboard waterblocks - $50-75

Total: $675-700

This doesn't count the extra spent on a large power supply, and a big case with lots of fans, which you probably won't recoup.

Even if you were to sell everything at a loss of about 25%, $525 would still buy you an i7 6700 which comes with an adequate cooler, H170 motherboard, RAM, AND another copy of Windows should you need it, and the i7 would be in an entirely different league, performance-wise. You could probably remove or turn down most of your case fans, cutting noise, or even downsize to an ITX case.

 

[HaizRail007]

I appreciate your response, and if I knew then what I know now I would of built a Intel system. I've got close to 3000 in just the computer it's self. and hell that doesn't include my peripheral devices. so spending another 100 bucks on it is nothing at this point.

 

[HaizRail007]

I was able to find the ek water block I needed.

 

[Ecky]

Just for anyone who might have this same question, where did you get it from?

 

[HaizRail007]

I really lucked up and found a seller on eBay selling A crosshair v fomula z motherboard with 8350 and the ek water block. So I decided to message him to see if he'd sell the block separate. Well he responded yesterday and said that he'd sell is separate. so after communication email though ebay between me and him He listed the block and sent me the url address of the listing were I was able to buy it. The seller is still selling the motherboard and the 8350.

 

[HaizRail007]

though a exhausting search that has went on for weeks and contacting many company and venders I was at my wits end trying to find some how to cool this board's vrm. I've looked at all the universal water blocks I could find on the web and they were either too short or too long. the closest mach was from koolance.

Now with that said what I've noticed about the 990 fx series is that no motherboard manufacturer or aftermarket company has answered our problem to the vrm problem. Ek was the only company to try and answer this problem but they fell short because of two aspects, one was that they stopped production on a water block that we needed and they don't make a water block for any of the rest of the 990 fx series. The only option we have besides trying to find out of production water blocks is buying a sabertooth 990 fx R 2.0 and theses parts and modifying them to fit and work properly.
Koolance MVR-100
Koolance MVR-PLT140
Koolance CHC-122
Now here's a link to a guide on how to do this. and no this isn't my guide, it's a guide I came across in my serch.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1468642/how-to-watercool-the-asus-990fx-sabertooth-rev2-0-vrms-and-nb

The reason that water cooling is needed for the Fx series cpu's is because of three things

First, is the fact that people tend to overclock them
second, is because of the 9000 series cpu's and the high tdp
Now this tdp not only effects the cpu but it also effects the motherboards vrm and north bridge.
and lastly, when you put a water block on the cpu this removes any air flow you will receive from a aftermarket aired cooled heat sink that sucks the hot air or heat from not only the cpu but the vrm and north bridge as well.
So what does all this mean, it means that even if you have your cpu under water cooling and there is no air suction available for the vrm then those vrm's are slowly going to cook themselfs. you may be seeing your nicely cooled cpu at 29c but your vcore temps at say 38 to 40 at idle but when under load the cpu rises to about 40c but your vcore temp rises to 50-66 for example. Which will cause your pc to freeze.
Now for me this was the case and every time is has done it, it was at random. And I wouldn't know it had froze most of the time until I noticed my mouse wasn't moving or the person I was talking to wasn't responding. Now the way I found out for sure it was the vrm was by testing every other component in my system. after I did this I brought up event viewer and their it was kernal cpu errors. that indicated that the cpu was shut down because of vrm temps. I had to look up the error code on Microsoft website. This was the reason I was looking for a water block.
I hope this help further fx 9000 and 8000 owners.