Chipset cooler for Athlon 64 nforce 3 250???

[Luthien]

In the past many people experienced and still do the chipset fan dying within a few months. Well looking on newegg I see they sell a chipset cooler for Intel chipset but not for amd chipset. I think that this time around I will want to replace my stock chipset cooler with a better one like that since history may repeat itself. Or do you think that the chipset cooler fan dying issue is solved these days? Asus a7v133 mobos chipset fans die pretty fast and I have three of those motherboards. Since I will be upgradeing all three systems in the next 2 months I dont care about those but want the no problems with new mobos.

 

[Luthien]

Bump

 

[Regs]

The chipset fan is almost useless anyway. A good heatsink is plenty for the north bridge. You would fry your CPU with water cooling before you fry the northbridge with a passive heat sink.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I use the Vantec copper iceberg chipset kit with the active cooler on the NB of IGP boards. I have one on my son's A7N266-VM and it cools well and has a good life span, in fact I've yet to have one die.

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
I use the Vantec copper iceberg chipset kit with the active cooler on the NB of IGP boards. I have one on my son's A7N266-VM and it cools well and has a good life span, in fact I've yet to have one die.

I use the vantech as well on my A7N8X Dlx northbridge as a stuck the stock one on the south bridge it seems to do a very good job. I have had it since June I belive and its still going strong. It isn't loud either so I would reccommend that but I doubt it will help much on the nf3 250's anyways as I think active cooling is sort of a waste I was just bored.

Check out SVC for some good coolers

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

i use a thermalright nb-1, pretty much the best north bridge cooler aside from watercooling.

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