8RDA+ NB and SB cooling
 

Owkey I'm getting tired of the Epox stock cooling on the northbridge of my 8rda+. Does anyone know a nice heatsink-fan combo to replace the thing on my chipset?
For my southbridge, currently without cooling, I was planning to re-use my old NB cooler: will it be satisfying or should I consider a Zalman passive chipset heatsink?
Thx in advance for the suggestions.

You can use your southbridge heatsink on your northbridge, but you'll have to bend the fins a little to make it fit.

A zalman passive chipset cooler is a good option for the northbridge, but i'd recommend putting a fan nearby if you plan on running +200fsb 24/7.

I put a Titan TTC-CUV2AB cooler on the Northbridge and that fits perfectly without any noticable noise.
Southbridge is cooled by the old northbridge cooler. Works perfect.

Greetz

Well, currently my FSB is set to 198 MHz, so maybe passive cooling on the NB without a fan nearby (and at the moment, there isn't one nearby in my case) isn't a very good option.

I think I might look around for that Titan cooler.

Thanks for the advice

The Titan coolers are good.
I'm using the same one, it's ripped of a hercules radeon 9700 (Pro). The clip is a VERY tight fit, but it sticks on there. It's actually a broken model, but was replaced by hercules without much problems. They let me keep the old one, so I glued the fan back on (guess what broke) and 7V it.

If you hack up a zalman CNPS7000 for cooling, it provides more then enough airflow for a good passive NB HS.
A ZalMan CNPS 6500Cu will probably do too.

Hmm, I'm afraid there is'nt enough room around the chipset (power connector, capacitators) to put a large zalman there. My case is already crowded enough, and at the moment, I don't really have the funds to buy another upper-class heatsink ;)

erm, I meant the zalman on the CPU.

Because of their big 92MM fans, they cool anything in the area.

Whoops, made a little mistake here :o
Well, nevertheless, I don't think a zalman is such a good option since my cpu is already overclocked (and I intend to push it a little higher), so I'm gonna let my alpha + papst do it's work there.
Anywayz, thanks for the tip.

XP1800+ @ 2600+

the zalman does nicely.