Abit kt7, and chipset cooling fan.

[jsbush]

I took off the little cooling fan abit puts on the northbridge cus it had an annoying whine to it, and my system is just as stable as it's always been, and the chip set is barely warm to touch. I'm running it at 100 fsb, I can run it all the way up to 117mhz, but I need to change the heatsink on the northbridge.

 

[Inteless]

I didn't think the KT7 even came with a northbridge fan.
Are you sure it's not the KT7A? The stock fans on
the "A" boards have a high failure rate. I replaced
mine with a Thermaltake blue orb. You have to take the
mobo out and modify the sink to install it.
Alternatively, just get a higher quality fan.


Inteless
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Abit KT7A-Raid (with blue orb on northbridge)
Duron 600 @ 1000 (142 x 7)
OCZ GeForce2 MX (with blue orb and ram sinks, 5.5ns ram, 220 core/210 memory)
256mb Crucial PC133 CL2 (1)
IBM 7200 rpm ATA100
AWE64
Kingston 10/100
OCZ Monster II cooler w/Everflow 60x60x25 26cfm fan
Idle temp 37C @ 23C ambient
Load temp 42C @ 23C ambient w/Sandra burn in

 

[jsbush]

Nope the KT7's come with a fan to. I don't need a fan though it's working fine. 100% stable. But when I was testing to see how much I could get out of my system, I had it up to 117mhz with a different heat sink fan or else it would be unstable.