GTX460 SOC no VRM cooling ?

[kamyk155]

At first - sorry for my bad english.
I have a simply question - I want to water cool my 2x GTX460 SOC SLI. I will use two universal gpu blocks (no full cover blocks for 460 SOC cards) :
EK Water Blocks EK-VGA Supreme HF Bridge Edition  and EK Water Blocks EK-FC Bridge DUAL Parallel to connect them.
My question is - how can I cool the VRM-s on cards after mounting water blocks ? VRM-s don't have heatsinks - only fans blow air on them. Do I need to cool them after removing radiator with fans ? Is there any software to measure temperature on VRM-s ? GPU-Z show only voltage and temperature of GPU.

And one more question - I have two the same cards but one of them in full 3D mode show (games/furmark) 1.025V and other one 0.975V is this normal ?

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

Generally the components other than the GPU are cooled by secondary airflow from the main fan so if you replace that with a water block then you will need toprovide some way of helping keep the temperature on these items down. You can purchase small single heatsinks that stick on to each chip with special thermal glue. Check out the websites where they sell the waterblocks etc.

You can see the type of thing I am talking about here: http://www.candccentral.co.uk/passive-heatsinks/