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Northbridge cooling....939 Sata2

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jpk

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This board comes stock with a big ol' heatsink on the NB chip and after hearing that the chip has a tendency to run hot I'm thinking about removing it and replacing it with one of those small Vantec chipset fans. Had to do that with my NF7, the stock fan crapped out on me. Seemed to be a common issue with that mobo. I can pick one up at a local computer show for $5. Hopefully I should have this new rig running next weekend once all my parts come in.
 
south bridge is much hotter on mine, quite scalding to the touch. I'm using AGP, but little hsf coolers like vantec and evercool ones need cut down on the sides to fit on the south bridge, due to mobo components in the way, I don't have the tools to do it, so I just did a nice Arctic silver application and now I need to direct some more airflow at the heatsink

Are you using a PCI-express video card? Maybe that decides which chip gets hot, north or south, which control and are adjacent to the respective video card slots
 
Originally posted by: jpk
This board comes stock with a big ol' heatsink on the NB chip and after hearing that the chip has a tendency to run hot I'm thinking about removing it and replacing it with one of those small Vantec chipset fans. Had to do that with my NF7, the stock fan crapped out on me.
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No you didn't "have" to, you can easily cool a nf2 NB with a passive 'sink.

Seemed to be a common issue with that mobo.
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Any board actually, tiny fans just fail relatively quickly.

I can pick one up at a local computer show for $5. Hopefully I should have this new rig running next weekend once all my parts come in.
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See preceeding text. That's a good way to ensure you have another fan failure. Go passive with a HQ (big) 'sink or get a HQ fan, not $5 computer show special.


If you are handy with tools, the ultimate cooler is an old Pentium 1 'sink with a thick low-RPM HQ (name-brand) fan on it. The tools being required to mod or fab a mounting method.

Please consider not posting off topic next time, thanks.
 
If the brand name is the same either at a computer show or from CompUSA, I would think the level of quality would be the same. Actually, I have bought many components at computer shows, some known brands and some not so well known, actually pretty obscure, and I can honestly say I've never had anything fail on me. Most of the parts I've purchased though have been well known brand names. I've also saved quite a bit cash doing that over going to big box places and even mail order. If I can buy a Vantec, Thermal Take, etc. at a comp show and the exact same fan costs me twice as much at a big box, why give your money away to them, they're not doing you any favors. Same thing with cpu heatsinks, why pay twice as much for the same thing. I guess you've got money to burn.
 
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If the brand name is the same either at a computer show or from CompUSA, I would think the level of quality would be the same. Actually, I have bought many components at computer shows, some known brands and some not so well known, actually pretty obscure, and I can honestly say I've never had anything fail on me. Most of the parts I've purchased though have been well known brand names. I've also saved quite a bit cash doing that over going to big box places and even mail order. If I can buy a Vantec, Thermal Take, etc. at a comp show and the exact same fan costs me twice as much at a big box, why give your money away to them, they're not doing you any favors. Same thing with cpu heatsinks, why pay twice as much for the same thing. I guess you've got money to burn.
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Dood....WRONG FORUM for this! :disgust:
 
I just unsoldered my northbridge from my DFI NF4 ultra-d and put in one from a slot 1 motherboard, back in those days they didn't even have a heatsink. Runs cooler now.
 
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If the brand name is the same either at a computer show or from CompUSA, I would think the level of quality would be the same.
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"IF", yes, but it can as easily mean they're both junk.
That's relative though, maybe you only need a year or two out of it. I am a snob about setting a system up so it needs nothing but dustey out and a battery swap for it's first decade of use. That's possible with a good low RPM fan but not the junk sold as chipset coolers, except of course if it's passive and that's enough cooling.


Actually, I have bought many components at computer shows, some known brands and some not so well known, actually pretty obscure, and I can honestly say I've never had anything fail on me.
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Are you talking about random parts or staying specifically on the topic of small, thin, higher RPM fans? They are a problem in themselves, computer show or not.


Most of the parts I've purchased though have been well known brand names. I've also saved quite a bit cash doing that over going to big box places and even mail order. If I can buy a Vantec, Thermal Take, etc. at a comp show and the exact same fan costs me twice as much at a big box, why give your money away to them, they're not doing you any favors.
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Sounds like you're only comparing, buying poor parts from a fair vs elsewhere. Thermaltake does not make ANY decent fans. For a brief moment they put decent 3rd party fans on a few select 'sinks and then went back to junk. Vantec aren't 'as" bad in full sized (80mm) fans but not in chipset fans. You still have to avoid small/thin/high-rpm.


Same thing with cpu heatsinks, why pay twice as much for the same thing. I guess you've got money to burn.
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Depends on what it is. Insist on quality and if the fair has it, fine. Dont' just compare what the fair has to what's online if it's not what you want. SInce we aren't at the fair, randomness is not of use, it'll depend on exactly what they have. In general, it's rare to find decent fans at computer shows. For the most part, decent fans are not branded with computer parts vendors names, they are branded with major fan manufacturere's names. For example, panaflo, NMB, Sanyo, Nidec, Sunon, Delta, Papst.
 
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