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before we get started with today's video I want to point out yes I do know that my GPU loop is a little bit lower than my CPU loop it takes longer for this loop to bleed because I have two radiators on its side and then once it completely bled I just haven't topped it off yet today's topic is something I'm actually asked a lot about in my inbox especially since doing the build block on the latest skunkworks 4.6 to 8b I don't know I lost track of what version we're on and that's going to be motherboard water blocks are they necessary do you need them should you use them or are they all just for show April is creative rewards month over at videoblocks and for a limited time they have a special offer where you can get a one-year subscription for only 99 bucks that's 90 percent off the normal rate but it doesn't stop there because not only do you get access to their unlimited download library of a hundred and fifteen thousand Adobe After Effects Clips backgrounds templates motion graphics 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did you have to put in a vrm water block did you see any differences why would you want to do that so today that's what we're going to cover because it's not something I've ever really talked about in depth now before you can understand what the vrm blocks are doing you have to understand what a VRM is on your motherboards and your graphics cards vrm stands for voltage regulator module now you have 12 volts being sent out of your power supply I actually have a 12 volt side a 5 volt side and a 3.3 volt side but we can talk about that later when you've got 12 volts being sent over to the CPU socket trust me your CPU is not using 12 volts in fact my CPU right here is using 1.3 volts which is over volted for an overclock typically it's going to be more like 1.09 5 or 1.1 when it comes to intel's you know turbo speeed step on AMD it tends to use a little bit more about 1.3 5 to one point four and overclocks get closer to 1.5 volts so clearly 12 volts is not being made its way to the CPU if it did your CPU would go top just like that with a nice little puff of blue smoke and that unforgettable smell of fried electronics fried hopes and dreams and green money that you should have just burned because it would have been more climactic than hearing the little pop of a CPU explode I've done it before it's kind of fun but that smell it lingers and it's a reminder of failure so the vrm or the voltage regulator module is responsible for stepping down the voltage to the level at which it needs to be used so in the CPUs case you're stepping 12 volts down to 1.3 or 1.2 or 1 foot 1 or whatever now the amount of phases you have as we talked about in a different motherboard video that you guys can check out on my channel each one of those phases is another filter for stepping down that voltage you get nice steady supply you don't want that voltage fluctuating a whole bunch you want it to be steady now because you have to take all that voltage and step it down that energy has to go somewhere and what happens is it translates into heat the module the module gets really really hot the voltage is turned into heat and then it's basically dissipated into the atmosphere it's literally wasted but that heat has to be handled and it has to go somewhere now normally on the motherboard you have a heatsink and me and there's no fan or anything on there what's responsible for removing that heat from the case are the case fans or any fans you place inside your system blowing air onto them or the motherboard or whatever the problem is VRMs can get very hot and then the heat sinks can become very inefficient and then sending that heat into your case can heat up everything inside your case especially things on the motherboard around the VRM and even the CPU itself so when you add a water block to the VRM you are taking all of that heat and adding it to your water loop usually what your CPU loop is connected to and then you are sending that to the radiator and out into the atmosphere and most of that heat is not actually making it inside the case which is keeping things cooler as a whole now one of the common questions I get associated with VR m-mother now one of the common questions I get about VRM water blocks is do they aid in the stability of overclocking well I think that's really going to depend on your particular situation if you live in a very hot climate and your vrm start to get too hot they can become unstable and not do a good job at filtering that voltage step down to whatever your ending voltage is and what leads to instability is not so much the V RMS are hot but because the voltage is fluctuating and CPUs don't really like fluctuating voltage when they go under load they want that power delivery to be constant and they don't want it fluctuate fluctuating around because sudden dips or V droop can lead to instability because when your CPU is under load it needs every bit of power that it feels it needs and if for sudden suddenly it doesn't get it you either will get a random restart shutdown blue screen whatever form of instability you might have the higher the overclock usually it can lead to just a flat out system freezer crash now vrm water blocks are typically not needed they are the V RMS are designed to run hot I mean when the engineers designed this stuff they know it's going to run hot they tried to put adequate cooling on there but what really helps in vrm temperatures more so than just water cooling them or having a BP heatsink is how many phases there are because the more phases the more split that power is that power step-down is and as a whole they can run cooler but most people will put vrm other blocks or even chipset water blocks like here on skunkworks more of an aesthetic thing I'll be honest I did it because I think it looks cool I like to water cool I like to do custom stuff with water cooling so I want it to look as blingy as possible but it is something that can help overall in overclocking stability if you live in a very hot client let's say you live somewhere like you know in Australia or India or North Africa or whatever wherever you are guys everywhere has hot temperatures some hotter than others but the as the air temperature is hotter going through your case the less heat can actually absorb and remove so that's where water cooling as a whole would be more beneficial than even just water cooling the VRMs now chipset cooling to me that's just the niche that's just a hey we've got blocks going everywhere why don't we just throw a block on the chipset as well the chipsets tend to not get too too hot in fact some mean chipsets have a very thin heatsink on there they're underneath the graphics card half the time most those graphics cards are even blowing hot air on top of the chipset heatsink and it's not really going to be a problem that's really ultimately just one of those things that really comes down to the bling factor is our downside to running motherboard water blocks well it really depends on the motherboard for instance my gigabyte board here didn't have a monoblock or one block that's designed to mount to the CPU that also touches the BRM EK i started making mono blocks for many motherboards where it's one block that handles BRM and CPU now they're a little bit more expensive but they're cheaper than getting a CPU block and a vrm block and chipset block all together in fact on ITX boards they've made even monoblocks that touch everything on the motherboard chipset CPU and vrm which cuts costs down even more but in my case here with the gigabyte SOC champion it was an additional 115 dollars to get the motherboard water-cooled typically that's not going to be worth it to most people but if you're doing some sort of an aesthetic build then it definitely helps make it look better and if you're doing you know enthusiast builds like this looks our chest is important as practicality now ultimately you have to make the decision on whether or not that's something that's interesting to you or something that's worth it to you it's your money I can't tell you 100 bucks is worth it to you when it might be to me that is purely subjective based on your situation and only you can answer that but at what I wanted to address in today's video was the practicality and the necessity of it versus the bling and just the eye candy and I do find motherboard water blocks to be more towards the spectrum of bling and eye candy versus you know a necessity or practicality guys I hope today's talking head video where we talked about motherboard water blocks was helpful to you again this is a topic pulled straight out of my inbox if I get enough requests to do certain videos I will definitely do them as you saw today so if there's more things you want to know about water cooling pcs overclocking gaming graphics cards whatever make sure you put it down in the description also too down there you can find links to Amazon affiliate codes which really do 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