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Posted: 04/05/04 - 03:46

Jinu
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 1882

I have an Abit mobo and while it's been great, the northbridge heatsink/fan has been a pain in the a*s.

I'm looking for a non-fan solution, and the Zalman ZM-NB32J looks like a worthwhile solution.

But I'd like some feedback from anyone who has a similar set up, or has some knowledge about northbridge cooling and would recommend a different product.

Posted: 04/05/04 - 04:12

Xion
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 1588

if you've overclocked your northbridge, you're going to want a heatsink/fan combo.

if it's just stock, that should do fine.

Posted: 04/05/04 - 04:42

khrath

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Posted: 04/05/04 - 08:46

Tolerai
Joined: 17 Mar 2004
Posts: 104

I don't get it? If it is working fine why change it? What are you interacting with your motherboard so much for? Laughing

Are you a "virtual" reality??

Posted: 04/05/04 - 08:50

Gethy
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 5121

Tolerai wrote:

I don't get it? If it is working fine why change it? What are you interacting with your motherboard so much for? Laughing

Are you a "virtual" reality??

Jesus f*****g Christ.

Posted: 04/05/04 - 08:58

Occulis
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 13299

Gethy wrote:

Tolerai wrote:

I don't get it? If it is working fine why change it? What are you interacting with your motherboard so much for? Laughing

Are you a "virtual" reality??

Jesus f*****g Christ.

haha gethy... I dunno why but that cracked me up.

Posted: 04/05/04 - 18:43

Jinu
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 1882

I can't find a high quality northbridge fan. And if I don't require another bit of whining coming from my computer, I'd like to do without.

I am overclocking from 3.0ghz to 3.3, and it runs fine, but the stupid northbridge fan is sorta loud, and so was my last one.

But I guess if I do require a fan for it, then I'lljust stick with what I have.

Posted: 04/05/04 - 21:18

Frashii
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 1222

3 words.

Zalman f*****g rocks.

I absolsmurfly love them and use them in EVERY system I build. I've never checked their North/Southbridge solutions out, but their engineering is rock solid stuff. Can't recommend them enough.

Having a full size silent case fane doing the work of a 7200rpm muffin fan is godly.. more cooling, almost 0 noise.

Stats on my 2.8mgz: (3.1 oc'd in line 3)

Room temp: 85F
CPU Temp: 99F
After 30 mins of Aquamark, SiSoft Sandra and StressLinux testing: 111-115F
After oc'ing and doing the same : 119F

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