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Slightly daft question

If you remove the stock heatsink, you won't have any cooling for the CPU VRMs. Now, they don't really need to be cooled all that much, but it's a very good idea to do so if you plan on overclocking. If you do intend to overclock, I suggest you find something to cool the VRMs, or just forget about getting the HR-05 altogether.
 
Sorry for my ignorance but what are the VRM's? and could you suggest a good aftermarket heatsink!
 
The VRMs are the components that supply power to the CPU. What kind of aftermarket heatsink would you like me to suggest?
 
I don't know to be honest, but i'm starting to think i might just live with the stock heatsink and a mild overclock! thanks for your help, all the same
 
You shouldn't have to worry about the stock heatsinks on most things these days - hardware is able to withstand more abuse, just look at the video cards hitting 90-100c :D Don't settle for mild, just go for the "average" overclock. Things start going to hell only when you start screwing around with beyond recommended volts.
 
A simple yet very effective solution is to glue a 40mm fan onto the MCH/Northbridge this will cool the existing heatpipe more than sufficient for any OC you would want to do. The "Gigabyte" bling on the Northbridge heatsink part of the heatpipe is thin sheetmetal and can easily be pried off ( and the engineer that designed the heatpipe assembly before the marketing guys scewed it up would probably thank for for removing it ).

Then take a 40mm medium speed fan (2000 rpm or less - higher speeds are very whiny and annoying) and put a big drop/glob of silicon adhesive, also known as Silicon RTV, in each fan mounting hole with 1/2 in the hole and 1/2 exposed and gently lay the fan on the top of the heatsink. Give the fan a very very gentle push to make sure the adhesive touches the fins well but dont squish it all the way down flat. Leave it alone for an hour. You have just created your own silicon vibration free fan mounting.

Look Ma, no fan screws !
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I have found that a cheap bay cooler will come with 2 or 3 40mm fans and with shipping is cheaper than buying a single fan and you have a spare. Small wire nuts can be use to splice whatever connector either the 3 pin motherboard type or the 4 pin molex type to the fan.

One thing to be aware of is most fans have a red wire for the +12V positive lead. A 4 pin molex connector on a pc has the YELLOW wire as the +12 so if you connect the fan to a 4 pin molex from your power supply the red wire of the fan should go to the yellow wire on the molex. Black to Black.
 
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