best northbridge cooler?

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syndr0me

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im looking to get a NB cooler to help get my opty 165 to run stable at 3.0ghz, what does everyone recommend for that? i was looking at the CM blue ice or the swiftech MCX159-CU.
 
syndr0me said:
im looking to get a NB cooler to help get my opty 165 to run stable at 3.0ghz, what does everyone recommend for that? i was looking at the CM blue ice or the swiftech MCX159-CU.
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I am using a $5 Sunon 50mm fan on my DS3 motherboard and it does a good job of cooling

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16811999018

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I don't suppose it is the best but it is good enough. It lowers temps from too hot to touch to comfortably warm. I slowed mine down with a spare Zalman fan controller on lowest setting but soldering in about a 92~100 ohm resistor will also drop it to 6 volts.
 
I used the Gigabyte on a DS3. Worked well enough, except the mounting was a big PITA (interfered with my CPU HSF) so double check the clearance on the mobo you're using. Other than that, it worked great. The stock NB heatsink, even at stock speeds, gets too hot to touch. The Swiftech got barely warm, though I'm not sure if it helped my OC any since I got bottlenecked by my RAM.

I would try a cheap fan on your existing NB first though.
 
I recently tried the Noctua NC-U6 and its a great cooler. Its real easy to work will since you can rotate it for the best fitting and air flow. I added a 70mm Sunnon fan @7v and my northbridge is now 22C lower then the stock alluminum heatsink. I bought this for my HTPC and ended up picking up another for the gaming pc since I was so pleased.

Ive also used the Microcool Northpole and Swiftech heatsink in the past. Both are definatly top notch, just wish I still had them to compare to the Noctua NC-U6.
 
my friend has the hr-05 sli on his gigabyte board, where the stock coolr got to around 70-80 C, and with the hr-05, it's around 35-40 full load now.
 
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