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Cooling Asus Northbridge...help?

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rboarderi

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I need to cool my Asus P5N-D northbridge, it runs way too hot but don't know what type of cooler would be best to replace the stock heatsink and fan. Any suggestions?
 
I think we are going to need a bit more info from you.

How do you know it is running to hot? Are you getting data corruption or instability? Can you fry eggs on it?
What CPU heatsink are you using?
Price range?


For my P5K-e I slapped a 40mm fan on the north bridge chipset, the chipset was getting very hot from my OC(common with quads). Just having that little 40mm fan helped a ton, my unstable crash happy computer suddenly was able to pass prime95 on a 24hr run where it previously couldn't do 30mins.
 
theres a thermaltake little mini heatsink that seemed to work well on my p5n-e. my school has newegg blocked so i cant link you but its all copper with blue leds.
 
The motherboard idles at 40C now that I put a fan on it but maxes out at 55C under load while playing games. My E8400 idles at 45C and maxes at 65C but I already ordered a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro to fix that problem, right now I am using the stock heatsink and fan that came with the chip. I am not getting data corruption or instability but the temperatures bother me to have them that high for an extended period of time.
 
I was thinking of trying my luck with a Noctua NC-U6...has anyone had luck with this chipset cooler?
 
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