New Northbridge chipset HSF

[dmw16]

I opened up my system yesterday to discover that my northbridge chipset cooler is dead. I have an Epox 8KHA+ and I was just looking for suggestions on what to replace it with. I want to get a new heatsink and a new fan while Im at it. So any thoughts? Or atleast what size I need?
thanks
-doug

 

[tapir]

get a Crystal or Blue orb from Newegg and apply superglue + thermal paste. or look around for some arctic silver epoxy, that would work the best.

 

[Jackman]

I had a bad fan on mt Northbridge also and i found this *Chipset Cooler Bundle* at KC Computers and worked nice.
Hope this link works to KC Computers

 

[Jhhnn]

You could just take the fan off and toss it, pretty much eyecandy anyway.

The fact that it works fine w/o the fan should be an indication of how much the fan is needed- many kt266 boards have just a sink, most of those aren't really applied very well, either.

There's the zalman passive chipset heatsink from 2cooltek and a few others- not really a bad deal if you don't already own some thermal epoxy. Otherwise gluing on a small wing fin or pin type sink works fine.

 

[Dundain]

Just go raid an old Pentium heatsink and trim it down to fit the chipset and then use a drop of super glue in the corners and thermal paste in the emiddle or else thermal epoxy to hold it on. Works for my system, looks kinda ghetto but it works

 

[keyeye]

I just ordered some arctic alumina adhesive at SVCcompucycle. $ 6.45 shipped. Cheap enough for me.

 

[Phunktion]

Might I suggest the Zalman Chipset Cooler.. it'll cool better than any of those crappy Northbridge HSF's and it uses no fan.. much higher quality than what any board comes stock with.. this kit includes the adhesive too so no need to buy anything but it..

 

[WA261]

Crystal Orb....cools well and looks kewl =P