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. |
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