The Sly Syl
Senior member
My ASUS A8N-SLi chipset died recently, then revived.
Thats not important.
Anyway, while it was dead, I put an 80mm fan directly ontop of it. It was the only sort of fan I had extra, and it fit perfectly into the place on my motherboard.
Likewise, I have yet to remove the 80mm fan, and With the fan just sitting ontop my Audigy 2 ZS like it is, my motherboard temp has gone down a good 5 or 6 Celsius.
Now, its kinda hard to understand do to the strange location of the northrbridge on this thing.
http://www.pctuning.cz/ilustrace2/charl...erboards/A8N_SLI/A8N_SLI_board_big.jpg
My top PCI-E slot is filled with an XFX 6800GT (stock cooler)
My first PCI-E 1X slot is filled with a PCI exhaust fan.
My top PCI slot is filled with a WiFI card (quite small)
My second PCI slot is where my Audigy 2 ZS is.
right now the fan is resting ontop of my audigy2, its side against the wifi card, and its blowing air directly onto the northbridge cooler.
It fits almost scarily perfectly into that slot.
I'm aware that its taking up the lower PCI-E slot and some of the secondary S-ATA spots, its alright, I don't plan on using them for over a year.
Now, I need a new chipset cooler, I'm thinking of going that passive Zalman everyone is mentioning here.
Now, how could I get an 80mm fan to stay there, exactly where I want it, with no problems? I can't really connect it to anything, and It has to be able to stay in place during a lot of heavy movements.
Thats not important.
Anyway, while it was dead, I put an 80mm fan directly ontop of it. It was the only sort of fan I had extra, and it fit perfectly into the place on my motherboard.
Likewise, I have yet to remove the 80mm fan, and With the fan just sitting ontop my Audigy 2 ZS like it is, my motherboard temp has gone down a good 5 or 6 Celsius.
Now, its kinda hard to understand do to the strange location of the northrbridge on this thing.
http://www.pctuning.cz/ilustrace2/charl...erboards/A8N_SLI/A8N_SLI_board_big.jpg
My top PCI-E slot is filled with an XFX 6800GT (stock cooler)
My first PCI-E 1X slot is filled with a PCI exhaust fan.
My top PCI slot is filled with a WiFI card (quite small)
My second PCI slot is where my Audigy 2 ZS is.
right now the fan is resting ontop of my audigy2, its side against the wifi card, and its blowing air directly onto the northbridge cooler.
It fits almost scarily perfectly into that slot.
I'm aware that its taking up the lower PCI-E slot and some of the secondary S-ATA spots, its alright, I don't plan on using them for over a year.
Now, I need a new chipset cooler, I'm thinking of going that passive Zalman everyone is mentioning here.
Now, how could I get an 80mm fan to stay there, exactly where I want it, with no problems? I can't really connect it to anything, and It has to be able to stay in place during a lot of heavy movements.
