Passive / Silent cooling solution for a BBAti X1950pro 256mb card?

Imaginer

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Any suggestions for the video card? I have hunted the google and came upon the Acerrlero S1 and the Thermaltake H, but both of which emphasizes too much with the GPU and only have memory sinks that pale in comparision.

Also I read on the problems with aftermarket coolers and the possibility of the VRM not being cooled properly unless I have a fan directly blowing at the sinks installed. Not really what I wanted in mind, if possible as passive as much as I can and let the case ventalate.

Also I have noticed my southbridge is VERY warm to hot on the stock heatsink on the P5B... I would like to replace it with a bigger northbridge heatsink but also noticed it will interfere with some slots (currently unpopulated). But my system is stable so far.

Quite possibly a pipe dream but is there an aftermarket heatsink that covers the gpu, memory, and VRM all with one plate and is a giant heatsink that expands both sides of the card via heatpipe? Why hasn't such a design been realized? (especially with the insanity of today's cards and their power requirements.... cant they take a cue from Intel and AMD in reguards to power consumption?)

This applies to northbridges and southbridges too!
 

Imaginer

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No one has a suggestion for a nice passive cooling video card heatsink???

The two I have listed is AFTER using google... and I figured asking here might get better answers....

And NO ONE has a problem with a toasty ICH8R??? It is a DAMN shame that we have every company and their dog focusing cooling for JUST ONLY the CPU and quite possibly the GPU but fail to notice the creeping hottness that is the northbridge and southbridge and mobo manufacturers on their part in locating a toasty chip to where only a low profile waterblock can provide dramatic increases in cooling!