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HSF on VIA northbridge (ABIT KT7A)

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TheWarder

Junior Member
All,

I've been up and running on an ABIT KT7A MoBo for appr. 6 months now without problems (AMD 1300, FSB 130, no overclocking).
Recently however one of the fans in the system started to make a lot of noise, investigation showed that it was the fan that ABIT puts on the VIA Northbridge...It also rotated irregularly, in other words the thing broke down.

After reading the review of this MoBo here on Anandtech I decided it would be relatively safe to remove the fan (but leave the heatsink), sofar I've not had any problems but ofcourse am wondering if I should expect any.

Does anyone have experiences with running without the fan? Would you recommend buying a new one?

Thanks for your advice!

Regards,

Johan

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Abit KT7A, FSB130
AMD Athlon 1300
640MB RAM
ASUS Geforce2 MX 32MB
Soundblaster PCI512
Windows XP
 
You may be O.K. for a while if you have good case cooling, but obviously it was put there for a reason. I suggest getting another chipset fan(I think they are like 45mm or something), or get a ThermalTake blue or crystal orb and replace the HSF and everything.


Just my .02,
Jeff
 
I thought I read somewhere that this fan was put on there because ABit had the overclocker in mind. As in the ABit was expecting people to overclock the fsb on this board and so they stuck the little fan to help get higher fsb scores. I may be mistaken. I'm thinking about taking mine off too because I don't overclock and my fan is starting to make high pitched noises that are really annoying me.
 
Rickten,

These noises were my symptoms exactly, believe me it's the beginning of the end.

In the meanwhile I read on other boards also that this KT7a fan is prone to failure, it seems the concensus feeling (as far as I've seen) is that you should be fine without a fan as long as you don't oc your FSB speed too much (or at all).
As I still have the heatsink in place, I'm gonne take the risk and leave the fan out...

I'll let people here know if this turns out to be the wrong decision...😎

Good luck!
 
The fan is there more for cosmetical reason than the purpose,
there are some of good board that doesn't have fan on the northbridge
(gigabyte and some of EPOX, all i can remember)

But Rickten is right, if you want to overclock you better have the fan for the safe
you can always call ABIT and ask for free replacement, i did that eventhough my northbridge
fan is still working fine, or like jsmckenna45431 said you always can buy thermaltake blueorb
but my experience with abit the clip on the blueorb doesn't match with the one on the mobo
but you can use the double sided tape Thermaltake supplied for you.

Peace


 
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