Chipset Water Unit

The chipset heats up less than the CPU, to put it mildly, so the developers decided to relax a bit  when working on the chipset water unit. Unlike the first unit, this device can’t boast any exceptional features:

It’s a small aluminum brick with three holes. Pipes are connected and everything is glued over. The water runs along the simplest trajectory in this brick: along a U-shaped channel. We can’t say it’s the most effective cooling solution, but the chipset simply doesn’t require anything more powerful. The retention mechanism for this water unit is a great example of simplicity and universality:

This water unit can be installed onto any mainboard instead of the standard heatsink or chipset cooler. The brace fits for most mainboards with different spacing between the fastening holes, but if the holes are placed too far apart, you can use special insertions:

The connecting pipes of the chipset water unit are made of aluminum, not of fragile plastic. But the glue they sit on might be the weak spot. To our surprise, it was very hard and you can’t possibly make it crumble :).

The snapshot shows the installed chipset water unit: