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Asetek Waterchill Antartica Watercooling - GPU & Chipset Cooler

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/06/2004 06:00 AM [ ] 0 comment(s)

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GPU Cooler
The second cooler is responsible for cooling down the graphics core of your videocard. Good news, if you have a Radeon or GeForce product, it'll fit... The block itself again is made of nicely pollished copper and we can see an in and outtake for the water pipes. You don't need to worry about holes versus your PCB. Each heatsink mounted to a graphics card makes use of two or more holes that are drilled in the PCB. You simply use these holes to secure the waterblock onto the videocard. It's easy to fit and the GPU/VPU is tightly secured to the waterblock.

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Antartic copper waterblock, screw, spring and thumb screw.

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Here's the mamma... the Antartic copper waterblock. Pretty cool gear to have in your hands.

Chipset Cooler
Last but not least would be a chipset cooler, we didn't receive one. Do not underestimate chipset cooling. Each mainboard is controlled by a chipset, Example: Intel's Springdale or Intel 865 chipset. On the mainboard we have two chips that control everything I/O related. We call them the north and southbridge. The Northbridge is what you need to see cooled here, it's responsible for the processor, AGP8x, memory and thus very primary funtions. For many of you water cooling is all about overclocking. This is exactly why it is so important to cool down the Northbrige. The waterblock design is close to the graphics core cooling block. same principles of attachement apply here.  Asetek's manual states it supports VIA, AMD, Intel and SiS components. No mention of NVIDIA, so weary for that.

Unfortionately we did not receive the Northbridge cooler with our review kit. Bare this in mind when you decide to go for watercooling. You might as well go for a kit that includes Northbridge cooling, if you plan to overclock.




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