Replacement chipset cooler?

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NeilFarted

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I have a gigabyte ga-m55sli s4 motherboard with the nforce4 sli chipset (northbridge?southbridge? both?). the stock heatsink/fan is starting to go bad (the bearing in the fan?) and making more noise than it should be. i want to replace it with a nice heatsink (rather not get one with a fan) that will cool it effectively, but i'm not sure if i can buy a regular chipset heatsink, or if i need to get a special one, seeing as how the cuurent heatsink/fan is rectangular, and not square, like all the coolers i see on newegg. is the chipset actually rectangular? i'd rather not start taking off the heatsink until i have the replacement, so i don't really know what is going on underneath the stock HS. any advice is appreciated.
 
so is the chipset on my board square-shaped? or are the northbridge and southbridge just next to each other, under one heatsink? i was hoping that someone might have the same board or similar and know from experience.
 
NeilFarted said:
so is the chipset on my board square-shaped? or are the northbridge and southbridge just next to each other, under one heatsink? i was hoping that someone might have the same board or similar and know from experience.
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The nForce 4's NB and SB are in a single chip. I have a Thermalright HR-05 SLI on it.
 
I ran a HR-05 SLi when I had an Ultra-D NF4, and it kept that nice and cool with the FSB around 300. Now I've got it on my IP-35, and it's still doing good. I would suggest that you mount a fan onto it. You'll have no trouble mounding an 80 or 70 mm fan, depending on what you've got lying around, and it comes with zip ties.
 
holli4pirating said:
I ran a HR-05 SLi when I had an Ultra-D NF4, and it kept that nice and cool with the FSB around 300. Now I've got it on my IP-35, and it's still doing good. I would suggest that you mount a fan onto it. You'll have no trouble mounding an 80 or 70 mm fan, depending on what you've got lying around, and it comes with zip ties.
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i just bought one of these from someone in the fs thread. i'll wait and see what my temps are fanless and see if i need to add one (luckily i have a spare cooler master ultra silent 80mm fan lying around). i have pretty good airflow in my p180, so i'll see.
also, has anyone experienced bad seating on their chipset, especially in vertical cases? that seemed to be the only complaint i saw on the reviews on newegg.
 
It should seat just fine. Just be sure the base of the heatsink has the square ring bit of foam or whatever it is.
 
NeilFarted said:
i just bought one of these from someone in the fs thread. i'll wait and see what my temps are fanless and see if i need to add one (luckily i have a spare cooler master ultra silent 80mm fan lying around). i have pretty good airflow in my p180, so i'll see.
also, has anyone experienced bad seating on their chipset, especially in vertical cases? that seemed to be the only complaint i saw on the reviews on newegg.
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The only problem I've had is that it ALMOST prevented my dual slot video card from fitting. At first I though it wasn't going to work. But one of the mounting bolts has JUST enough give to clear the shroud on the video card. If the shroud was 1/10" bigger, it wouldn't have fit.
 
morfinx said:
The only problem I've had is that it ALMOST prevented my dual slot video card from fitting. At first I though it wasn't going to work. But one of the mounting bolts has JUST enough give to clear the shroud on the video card. If the shroud was 1/10" bigger, it wouldn't have fit.
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On my Ultra-D, it almost didn't fit as well. The HR's heatsink was right in front of the fan for my 8800GTX, but I put on a fan pushing air into the heatsink, so I think it got some extra air into the GPU heatsink/shroud as well.
 
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