Gigabyte x58a-ud7 Hybrid Heat Pipe

[ckoons1]

will the Hybrid heat pipe reduce temps on a UD7 motherboard with the NB water cooled ?

[ckoons1]

how much difference , temp wise are we talking about ?
anyone?

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

The silentpipe cooler definitely does work and help with lowering the temperature of the northbridge(and associated thermal sources) whether you are air or water cooling. What you have to remember is that the water cooling block on the NB isn't a true water cooling block as you would normally expect. If you look closely you will find that instead of being attached directly to the NB chip it is connected via a finned heatsink so is not as  thermally efficient as it could be.
 
I liquid cool my system ( you can see pictures of it here: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,2373.0.html ) and using the same board and a well cooled case, the HAF 932, I still use the Silentpipe cooler in addition.

[ckoons1]

thx for the reply. this is good to know.
does it effect air getting to your video card below it?

[Dark Mantis]

To be honest it makes no diffference to your graphics card if you are liquid cooling. If you are planning to aircool the GPU (although I can't imagine why you would ) it still shouldn't make any difference as the Hybrid Silentpipe module is oin the other side of the card to the fan.

[ckoons1]

thank you :]

[Dark Mantis]

You're welcome and if you have any more questions or anything else to check on you know where to come.