• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D and ZM-NB47J

E

elbombillo

Junior Member
I have this motherboard DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D but the stock fan is too loud. The only other concern is that the Chiptet is already running at 48C even when the CPU is only at 32C. Is this enough to kool it the chip set and quite down the PC. I also have two case fan to help circulate air in the case. Any one have this MOBO and Chipset cooler? If so how kool does it keep the MOBO compared to the loud stock fan.
 
Welcome to AT 🙂

The Zalman NB47J is a no go on the Ultra-D, unless you want to put your vid card into the lower full length slot. Options for this board are limited due to the bad placement of the chipset. 48º C isn't really that horrible for the chipset. You can slow the chipset fan down in the PC Health section of the BIOS, but temp will go up a little. I have the VC-RE cooler from Evercool on my chipset, it has to be undervolted significantly to make it quiet, but it still does better than stock slowed down.

If you don't mind dropping a lot of $ on chipset cooling, get a Jing Ting Heatpipe. Check to make sure it'll really fit the Ultra-D first. Looks like it ought to.
 
I use Integrated Technologies Express (ITE) Smartguardian to regulate the fan speed on my DFI LANPARTY SLI-DR. Otherwise, you are right. It is too loud.
 
Painman and lifeguard1999 thanks for your replies. The board is not really SLI I will only get one 7900 GT will it fit in the bottom slot? Will this keep the Chipset at least at current Temps?
 
The Zalman is a passive, fanless cooler. So it'll be dead quiet 😀 but unless there's good airflow in its vicinity, NF4 temps may increase.

You can cetainly put the 7900 into the bottom slot - before doing so, shunt the jumper blocks by the PCI-E slots over, so that you get 8x bandwidth operation from the bottom slot. Performance loss going from 16x to 8x is negligible, but if you don't shunt the jumpers over, the bottom slot will only be working at 2x.

If you were to try this, you would have all sorts of chip cooler options available to you. Some of them quiet, others not-so-quiet. See what the cooling shops have to offer, there was a thread recently where lots of links to good shops were thrown around... here it is. Then do some googling for reviews on items that interest you.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top