40mm LED fan: anyone know where to get such a thing?

[Flakk]

I'd like to cool my northbridge. I'm into case modding as well. So if I can, I'd like to use a 40mm fan with blue LEDs (or whatever color is available) to spiffy it up. I looked for a while and had a hard time finding something like this.

Anyone know of where to get one?

I looked on pricewatch, ebay, searched the web as well as other forums and I only found 1 on Directron.com
it's multi-colored tho... so if its the ONLY one out there I'll have to go with that. Just wondering if theres anything else out there.

 

[Jeff7]

This maybe. Or this.
That's all I could really find in the way of chipset coolers with LED's.

 

[Flakk]

wow cool
that would have been perfect!
but it doesnt look like it blows the air downward, only outwards
i guess it'd have to REplace the *passive* chipset heatsink which is quite large..

maybe i could remove the bottom piece of that unit, or cut it off, so the air would blow down. altho, it looks like it blows out the sides mostly. i'd really like to just leave my current heatsink on and attach a fan.. feels safer

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Flakk
wow cool
that would have been perfect!
but it doesnt look like it blows the air downward, only outwards
i guess it'd have to REplace the *passive* chipset heatsink which is quite large..

maybe i could remove the bottom piece of that unit, or cut it off, so the air would blow down. altho, it looks like it blows out the sides mostly. i'd really like to just leave my current heatsink on and attach a fan.. feels safer

Well, it does blow downward, but then it exhausts outward, over the fins. Granted, I don't think that this "orb" design is the most efficient either - the heat transfers directly to a) the dead zone right under the fan's motor, and b) a FLAT metal place. But it still is a heatsink, and an active one. Your requirement of blue LED's does limit the selection a bit.
Otherwise, there's something like an FA420 or the really low-profile (more for videocards) FAC08. That last one's not exactly a wind machine, but it can cool Geforce3 and earlier cards easily. Or else do what I do to my nForce2 boards - old Pentium heatsink with a 50mm ball bearing fan on top; some ASII in the middle of the chip, epoxy out the corners and edges. It stays in place pretty good, and keeps the chip cool. But they don't glow blue.

 

[LoneWolf1]

Blue LED 40mm Fan

 

[Flakk]

wowie! is this a new item? i swear i just checked all their fans yesterday

you are my savior

that is EXACTLY what i was in search of. i was on the verge of just now ordering that 40mm fan for the geforce and cutting out the bottom so it would cool my northbridge heatsink.. hehe.. glad i checked back

thanks for everyones help tho.. much better than my own searches turned up

- edit -
just ordered it
(along with a pair of Logitech Z-680's, and 1gb Kingston HyperX memory)

i am really good at blowing the money eh