Northbridge cooler

[Gautama2]

I am looking to replace the northbridge cooler on the DFI infinity ULTRA2-m2 I plan to buy. Ive seen many reviews of the northbridge get to around 60C at idle, and im not comfortable with that. Whats a good northbridge cooler?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Are you looking for an active or passive cooler?

 

[Operandi]

I would suggest you not buy the DFI board and go with this Asus.

 

[Gautama2]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Are you looking for an active or passive cooler?

Either.

Originally posted by: Operandi
I would suggest you not buy the DFI board and go with this Asus.

I plan on overclocking this machine to the max on a strict budget, and if you read the Asus M2N-E sticky in the motherboard forum here on AT you will see many problems arise with this board when overclocked.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I dont think the HR-05 will fit. That chipset is too centered for the HR-05 SLI to go to the left or right. Also, since most video cards come out too far. I really dont think you'll be able to fint anything else in there. Its a low profile sink for a reason.

EDIT: I take that back, you might be able to fit the regular HR-05 sideways, if the mounting holes are correct. However, the lack of airflow might make things difficult. BUT, if you have no intention of doing SLI, get the HR-05 SLI and mount it facing whichever slot wont be used.

 

[natethegreat]

http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52950

 

[Gautama2]

Originally posted by: natethegreat
http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52950

Is using a vga cooler ona northbridge viable when im looking for the best cooling results?

 

[regpfj]

Originally posted by: Gautama2

Originally posted by: natethegreat
http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52950

Is using a vga cooler ona northbridge viable when im looking for the best cooling results?

I believe those work pretty well. If you look at the #2 guy in the second post on this thread he's using the cooler recommended to you and his opteron 146 is at 3170 8 hours prime stable.

Hell, I'm using the stock DFI cooler for my nf4 and it doesn't stop me from being eighth on there.

The chipset temp doesn't really affect performance or overclocking too much on AMD machines. If they work, that's usually as good as it needs to be.

See this product page if you want a good alternative, though.

 

[PChang11]

I would suggest:

http://www.svc.com/vc-re.html
http://www.svc.com/hr-05-sli.html

If you can fit it:

http://www.svc.com/mcx159-cu.html

The MCX159-CU is VERY quiet while cooling better than any other chipset cooler I've tested.