DFI nF4 Ultra-D noisy chipset fan?

slash196

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I haven't recieved mine yet, so this is just heresay, but appearantly the chipset fan is a magnetic levitation fan, and is pretty quiet. I'd say don't worry about it.
 

Icepick

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I've read reports of that fan getting up to 7000RPMs and am hearing complaints that it's noisy. Here's a link to a thread over on SilentPCReview where someone ripped it out and threw in a Zalman passive heatsink (with pics!). If you're running a video card with active cooling then you probably won't hear the chipset fan over the video card's fan, though.
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?p=156430#156430
The guy reported that afterwards his temp was around the same, if not lower than when the fan was running.