AIO cooler, attached to stock heatsink

[kuramakitsune]

if you cut and or grind the stock heatsink down to a flat surface for teh watercooler to mount onto

then you just reduce the watercoolers heat transfer power

so really itd be like having a really bad tim 

as the thermal energy is being "buffered" sorta in the metal of the first heatsink

 

id only consider doing that

sayy.

if you have no mount for the watercooler directly.

and you MUST attach it indirectly

 

i hate when people shoot down an idea

it would "work"

but not too well id expect.

testing the idea out would be fun and informative

you might as well do it.

if not for teh lolz

[VortexTech]

17 hours ago, kuramakitsune said:

if you cut and or grind the stock heatsink down to a flat surface for teh watercooler to mount onto

then you just reduce the watercoolers heat transfer power

so really itd be like having a really bad tim 

as the thermal energy is being "buffered" sorta in the metal of the first heatsink

 

id only consider doing that

sayy.

if you have no mount for the watercooler directly.

and you MUST attach it indirectly

 

i hate when people shoot down an idea

it would "work"

but not too well id expect.

testing the idea out would be fun and informative

you might as well do it.

if not for teh lolz

Yeah  The idea is just for the fun of it, not for practical use. I will probably give it a go when i can. For fun

[Hydra981]

Just going to place this here

 

[TarantinQuentino]

This is the only topic on the internet about this idea. So i’m thinking the results are not gonna be great. But my reference 5700 sucks hard and i am about to put an 120 aio on its heatsink with some thermal paste and double sided tape. i’ll keep you guys posted with the results!

[SickMcNugget]

I hate to revive an old thread, but I had to talk about a recent experience with this exact phenomenon.

My friend purchased a PC from Facebook marketplace a couple of years ago, and recently came to me to fix it because it kept crashing. The heat sink shown by @Hydra981 is very similar to the one that was present and some AIO from corsair had been placed atop it. Long story short, his CPU would rise to 115 °C and then subsequently his computer would power down. Who knew that a massive chunk of aluminium between the CPU and the AIO would destroy its cooling ability? Anyway, don't do this, it works about as poorly as you would expect.

[thrasher_565]

you can add a fan to you cpu block that would help. people also say a fan at the back of the mb at the cpu also can help kinda like a backplate on a gpu.

 

i think the problem here is mass and how much the cooler can do. it would have to handle all the heat from the center witch i guss dosent work witch leaves heat on the fins to heat soke. not only that the loss of past and surface's. it kinda has be dont on mb mb the use a laptop cpu and has this plate between the diy and cpu.

 

maybe if you had like a delided cpu and a flat laped surface you could make it better but i dont no.

[alyen]

If a custom waterblock was mounted to the CPU and this special waterblock also had external fins and a external fan on top maybe it might be more effective, but all of the components would require a entirely new design. Using already existing parts may not work or be effective.