Water block for MSI K8N Neo4 SLI

Guys, I want to improve stability by adding a water block to the nforce4 chipset but there isn't much clearence underneath the second EVGA 6800GT.
Does anyone know of a waterblock with a low enough profile to fit underneath the card?

Click Here, this might work

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