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How much heat does a water-cooled motherboard add to a loop?

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2014/04/23 22:57:16 (permalink)
Hi Guys,
I have looked everywhere for an answer to this. Does anyone have an estimate of how much heat (Celsius) would cooling the mosfets on a motherboard add to a loop? Currently, I have my CPU and Motherboard water-cooled on a single loop with a tri-radiator with 3 120 fans. My temps are low to mid 30's at idle. If I removed my motherboard from the loop would I see much of a temperature drop on the CPU?
 
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    Re: How much heat does a water-cooled motherboard add to a loop? 2014/04/23 23:19:53 (permalink)
    In general  mosfets would produce 20-30% of load. cpu power usage in this case.
     
    but its mosfet, so the more you increase the switching frequency the higher the power usage.
     
    I'd say between 30-60% of cpu power just to be safe, I know asus bios really allows you to ram up the switching frequency.
     
    Expect couple of degrees increase . remember, 4770k gets really hot because of the TIM not because its super power hungry.
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    Re: How much heat does a water-cooled motherboard add to a loop? 2014/04/24 06:43:26 (permalink)
    Thanks for the answer. I'm using Indigo Extreme for the first time and I am concerned I nay have messed up the application process.

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    Re: How much heat does a water-cooled motherboard add to a loop? 2014/04/24 07:50:54 (permalink)
    A mobo block will not effect it too much, a mosfet block can drive the loop temp up some.  Low-mid 30s is a bit warmer than average for water, but then again, what are you clocked to?
    But in the end, idle temps can provide some baseline, but they aren't really that important to actual functionality.  I would run IBT and see what your temps are, use your motherboards monitoring tool to watch what your VRM temps are, and Realtemp for the CPU, and lets see what your temps are under heavy load. 
    Also, from personal experience, while MOSFETs/VRM can get REALLY hot before an actual component failure, VRM getting hot can REALLY have an adverse effect on system stability, I got my VRM cooled back down on my X58 and all my stability issues went away.
     
    In the end, will it have an effect on the absolute best temps your CPU can get, yes, is it a big deal, no not really, and in the end you can potentially be more stable due to keeping other important components cooler as well.
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    Re: How much heat does a water-cooled motherboard add to a loop? 2014/04/24 08:35:52 (permalink)
    With haswell it will do nothing at all... Are you using the pre installed block? If so just air cool it because it is an aluminum block... Again water cooling a board will DO nothing for Haswell. The reason Haswell gets hot is because the VRMs are in the die itself now. In my binning run of 30 Haswell chips I could achieve save clocks on an $80 board that I could on a $200+ board.
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    Re: How much heat does a water-cooled motherboard add to a loop? 2014/04/24 10:44:38 (permalink)
    Thanks Guys. I'll do some testing tonight and post back. Worst case, I'll have to reapply indigo extreme or go back to Diamond Paste.

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    Re: How much heat does a water-cooled motherboard add to a loop? 2014/04/25 06:34:48 (permalink)
    I would say it will not effect temps,but it will affect loop restriction.

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    Re: How much heat does a water-cooled motherboard add to a loop? 2014/04/25 15:29:10 (permalink)
    I'm going to reapply Indigo Extreme and see what happens tonight.

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