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Recommend North Bridge cooler please

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I have an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe, for those of you who have it you know it comes with a dinky little north bridge heat sink, I'm oc'ing at 234+ FSB, so I think it's getting pretty hot and may be the reason I have been unable to achieve high overclocks... I just need to know a heatsink that I will be able to install without removing the motherboard from the chassis that will cool better than my stock one.... :D thanks guys :rolleyes:
 
I have a mobile Athlon rig but since the NB coolers are pretty universal, I'd recommend a Thermalright NB-1 active cooler which comes with a 12CFM 40mm fan and can be had fer around $20.
 
I've also had luck with the passive Zalman NB coolers. But your needs might require some active cooling, in which case I'd second the above suggestion.

Is the current NB cooler hot to the touch?
 
:eek: is that picture of the NB cooler just HUGE or is the NB cooler really that huge?
 
PhattyT said:
:eek: is that picture of the NB cooler just HUGE or is the NB cooler really that huge?
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It's actually not that big, which is why I chose it. I have an SP-94 with a 92mm fan on my IC7-G, and while you can fit the swiftech in there, or some of the other tall ones, this one was cheap and fit without modifying anything. Once I hush the fan up it'll be perfect.
 
haha i thought it was big :D oh yeah is there also a south bridge cooler? only seen NB coolers and wondering where i can find a SB cooler =] (i know im in wrong thread but dont wanna make a new one LOL)
 
The Zalman ZM-NB47J is the best option. I installed one on my Gigabyte 8KNXP and it keeps the NB plenty cool for overclocking. Plus its completely silent. Who wants a NEW active NB cooler when its going to make as much or more noise than the little 40mm bugger you just pulled off?

You can get the Zalman really cheap too at SVC.com.

Have you already tryed removing your current passive sink on the Asus board? Your going to have to cut the legs off to get it out of there probably without taking the board out of the chassis.
 
Yes, get the Zalman. There's no reason to get an actively cooled HS for a chipset, especially when the sinks on those things are dinky anyway.
 
Well with the fan I'm using I can barely clear the stock northbridge cooler. I don't see how some people can add an active Northbridge cooler to some configs.
 
swiftech MCX NB cooler if u can shell out the 30+ bux for one, but its second to none in cooling and silence.

also...im no moderator but, your sig is kinda huge fragalot...its distracting when the sig is bigger then the post...
 
gpitpitan said:
also...im no moderator but, your sig is kinda huge fragalot...its distracting when the sig is bigger then the post...
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He's legit. It's 10 lines, the maximum.

Swiftech MCX159-R or Thermalright NB-1. The Zalman NB47J is only possible if you epoxy it to your northbridge, something I'm not really fond of doing.
 
dandragonrage said:
Yes, get the Zalman. There's no reason to get an actively cooled HS for a chipset, especially when the sinks on those things are dinky anyway.
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I guess you aren't big on stability.
 
guys, the thing is, my mobo is already mounted and everything is installed, the current HSF has those 4 clips that go on, I want to be able to install a cooler without having to remove my mobo.....
 
_Korruption_ said:
Swiftech MCX159-R or Thermalright NB-1. The Zalman NB47J is only possible if you epoxy it to your northbridge, something I'm not really fond of doing.
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It has push pins, why would you need to epoxy it to the motherboard???

bh2k said:
I guess you aren't big on stability.
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The stability with a good passive heatsink on the NB is as good as most if not all actively cooled NB coolers. They are only small 40mm fans. They dont push that much air. The quality of the sink is the important part. There is more then enough airflow in that area of the case to move the hot air off. The Zalman NB47J works really well and its silent.

Zeke said:
guys, the thing is, my mobo is already mounted and everything is installed, the current HSF has those 4 clips that go on, I want to be able to install a cooler without having to remove my mobo.....
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Thats great but how are you going to get the NB cooler off? Putting a new one on isn't going to be much of a problem. You will have to find some way of cutting the plastic push pins if you want to remove the current NB cooler without taking out your motherboard. I think you would be better off taking out the board though so you can apply the thermal paste and set the sink better but its up to you.
 
it has those 4 U-shaped pieces coming out of the motherboard, so to get this one off all I would have to do is push on the heatsink and release the clips, then clip the new one on... frick, I'll use some frickin bolt cutters and just clip of the clips if I have to.. lol. I could always put new clips on the old one if I wanted to use it again, but I'm not going to so who cares...
 
burningrave101 said:
It has push pins, why would you need to epoxy it to the motherboard???
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The P4C800-E Deluxe doesn't have the holes for push pins. That board uses the four metal loops to hold the heatsink down, versus the two mounting holes that most AMD boards use. The Zalman isn't built for those four loops, it's built for mounting holes.
 
_Korruption_ said:
The P4C800-E Deluxe doesn't have the holes for push pins. That board uses the four metal loops to hold the heatsink down, versus the two mounting holes that most AMD boards use. The Zalman isn't built for those four loops, it's built for mounting holes.
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Well that sucks. My Gigabyte 875p board has the two mounting holes so it was no problem for me installing the Zalman.
 
Go with MCX159-R it helped squeek alittle more out of my board. I'm pretty sure it will fit on your board. Looks schpankity too :D
 
i got the MCX159-P, it comes with the 4 clips that go onto the loops for my board so it's perfect, and I'm sure it will pwn this piece of junk stock one....
 
I see from your sig ya got water,Why not go with H20 on your NB?
 
I'm picking up the MCP159-A soon. All the reviews I found on it were good, the specs are awesome, and Swiftech makes solid stuff. Not quite sure why it costs so much more than my Aeroflow though...
 
OPUS1 said:
I see from your sig ya got water,Why not go with H20 on your NB?
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How hot do NB's get? At 230MHz FSB, I measured the temps on my stock fanless NB heatsink with a thermal diode. 40C, maybe a bit more. Once the water temps stabilize, you won't be cooling the NB any better than with air. Might as well save the water restriction, right?
 
i could, but I dont want to have to drain my system and re-route the tubing and then fill it up again, it's much easier just to get some air on it...
 
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