80mm fan on heatsink - safe?

[Cyb00]

I have the taisol CGK742092 heatsink and i broke the original fan like the first day i got it, so i put on a ys tech 26cfm fan, but i wasent happy with the noise, so i put on a 80mm sunon fan. One screw only, and a paperclip attaching it to the powersupply so it wont fall off. It seems to be working ok, 34c idle, 49c load. Is this safe? I also took the fan off the northbridge of my kt7-raid and put it on my geforce2gts cause i broke that fan too. the 80mm seems to provide cooling for the northbridge too. Is their any danger to my system?

thank you
cyb00

 

[Gringo]

nope. just hope that paperclip holds!

i'd think of a more permanant solution..like a shroud that you can cut out of sheet aluminum...ill see about digging up the link tomorrow. a little safer, and much more efficient...

G.

 

[CarpeDeo]

Hehe- why do you keep breaking so many fans?

 

[pbox]

80 mm fan is OK, specially if mounted asymetrically. Your temp readings are probably off, since the bigger fan blows more air under the socket cooling the temp sensor off. NorthBridge needs a fan, mainly if you are running 133FSB. If it is 100 you will probably can get by with a heatsink.

Peter

 

[Cyb00]

Bad habbit of not watching my hands inside the case with the computer on.... its 100fsb, and my system has been very stable and very quiet so far!

i wish i can enclose a pic