Gigabyte K8NS Pro

[Script917]

Please go to the following link and take a look.
http://images10.newegg.com/pro...mage/13-128-241-08.JPG
Do you see the little fan with the gold mesh over it? It is where the nVIDIA nFORCE 3 250 chip is located,

Well that little fan that you saw, is driving my bonkers. It makes a very annoying high pitched wine.

Now, if you go to newegg and search for all mother boards with this particular chipset in it.
Here take a look
You will see that almost all other if not all other board have a heat sink on that chip.

So my question is this, surely that fan is not necessary correct?? Where can I find a heat sink that would fit that chip??

 

[Savarak]

just unplug that little fan and unscrew it from the heatsink thats already on there

 

[Script917]

Are you sure it wont over heat??

If that is the case why did they put the fan on their to begin with??

 

[Script917]

Bump

 

[hwan]

Not sure if this one will fit

http://www.directron.com/zmnb47j.html

 

[rperezlo]

You can use Speedfan (Speed02) to change the speed of the fan on the KN8S Pro. I have it set to 20% during normal operation and to 100% when the CPU temperature reaches 50 C. It's completely stable and at 20% it is inaudible.

If you want to remove completely the fan I think the Zalman chipset cooler should work. Just removing the fan and using only the included heatsink without the fan didn't work for me as it crashed very often.

I would also like to install the Zalman and be able to forget about Speedfan. If you try the Zalman please let us know the results.