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replacement chipset cooler

mentalcrisis00

mentalcrisis00

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Hey all

I could an Epox Nforce 4 ultra board last janurary for an AMD X2 build and the board has worked out great, the only thing is that the stock HSF started making alot of noise almost out of the box and i replaced it with a zalman passive cooler. I bought it thinking that hey it's about 4 times the size of the stock chipset cooler perhaps that'll compensate for not having a fan. No such luck, any time i don't have constant air blowing on it i'll get a BSOD when i play anymore then 15 minutes of BF2 or Quake 4 because the northbridge will just get to hot. So therefore i'm doomed to have a loud 40mm fan pasted to the side.

My question is what would you all recommend for a nforce 4 ultra chipset cooler? I've been looking around at the vantec and titan coolers for the old school VGA cards because money is rather tight, and they are copper (zalman passive is aluminum).

I'm also interested in overclocking and could spend up to 30 bucks if the cooler is worth it.

thanks

-Ray
 
The Thermalright HR-05 can probably do what you want passively. If not, then you could strap on a thin 80mm fan such as the Delta EFB series 80x15mm low speed fan. I'd reccommend this because, although 70 is reccommended, there are very few of them, and the ones that are dont have have RPM monitoring, so your stuck at ~34dB. This fan could be used with Speedfan or other controller to be kept at a manageable noise level.
 
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