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How to mount a CPU cooler on northbridge?

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CyNics

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Just bought myself a retail 1700+ tbredB. I already have a thermalright slk800 and I'm not going to use the stock heatsink. I plan to use it as my northbridge cooler. I'm running an abit nf7-s @210 (1.7vdd). The northbridge gets pretty hot and the stock chipset cooler is a POS. Now, take my stock 1700+ heatsink and drill 2 holes on it isn't a problem for me. Problem is, how am I going to mount it on the chipset? Use screws and nuts? I don't think AS epoxy is strong enough to hold the heatsink(it's pretty heavy). I need suggestions/advices/guidance from you guys.
Thanx
 
The epoxy is very likely to hold the heatsink just fine. If you did want to mount it through the holes (which would be good since it sucks to not be able to remove things), then you could set up a bolt/nut design similar to the hole-mounted CPU heatsinks; a bolt run through a strong spring, passing through the motherboard, to a nut on the other side (preferably with a small nylon spacer to keep it from touching the board). However you'd have to make sure that when fully tightened, the bolt doesn't go too far through and raise the board off of the standoffs. The spring would be a definite requirement to avoid breaking the board, and to make sure that the weight doesn't cause the heatsink to tilt.

Of course, you shouldn't NEED to mount such a large heatsink. Mounting a small fan on the stock cooler and putting AS compound on it would probably work fine.
 
Evermore is right. A chipset should not need such a large heatsink.
Find a good fan, small enough to fit on the stock heatsink, and if I were you I'd use some AS Epoxy to mount the fan on by putting on the face of the outter edges of the fan so that it stays in place. You can figure it out.
 
yeah I know it's overkill.
but since I already have it, it's better to use it instead of leaving it aside. hehe 🙂
thanx 🙂
 
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