My northbridge fan is broken I think

[idea]

I have an Abit KT7A, would it be hard to swap it with another one? Where's the best place to get one?

 

[MemnochtheDevil]

Compusa has a kit to replace your old one. I ended up just taking the old fan off and leaving the bare hs because the fan for my zalman cpu hs blows air over the northbridge. My system is a lot more stable since I got the zalman 6000 hs, not sure if the cpu was getting too hot or if it was the northbridge....

 

[Bookie]

my northbridge in my server was making this horrible sound and I just replaced it a couple days ago with the Zalman passive northbridge cooler. I got mine from SVC. For only 7.99, it was definitely worth it.

 

[MemnochtheDevil]

Originally posted by: Bookie
my northbridge in my server was making this horrible sound and I just replaced it a couple days ago with the Zalman passive northbridge cooler. I got mine from SVC. For only 7.99, it was definitely worth it.

This is much cheaper than the kit I saw at Compusa and is better quality,if you can afford to wait for it to arrive.

 

[amcdonald]

3-4 days at most, I have one from svc also.

 

[Davegod]

youre very probably fine just taking the fan off and using the plain little heatsink. At worst there's the other two options, if youre concerned I'd go with the zalman.

 

[idea]

Here's a story for you -- I took off the fan, just to see what would happen. I got to POST and went into BIOS, and the system froze. That is the first time I ever had my BIOS freeze up on me, so I didn't like it. But I tried it again, and went into Windows. These are the numbers that I have to compare:

-- W/ northbridge fan (sounded worn out) --
CPU - Idle: 44c, High: 52c
Chipset - Idle: 36c?, High: 36c

-- W/O northbridge fan (just heatsink) --
CPU: Idle: 41c, High: 45c
Chipset - Idle: ??c, High: 27c

Under high load, that is a 7c drop for CPU, and 9c drop for the chipset. WTF is that about?

 

[idea]

Damn I'm stupid, thru all the excitement I didn't realize the case's hood was off. CPU temps are exactly the same, although the chipset's temps did drop to 27c under full cpu load.