Northbridge Cooler?

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i been looking for a good Northbridge Cooler...
so far this is what i found any suggestions?
btw i'm not looking for a water-block cooler
 
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Simply, yes.

Pretty much ANY aftermarket cooler can handle the heat generated by the northbridge (of course, the little, flat coolers wont produce an improvement).

Remember to pay a lot of attention to the dimensions, making sure that this cooler wont interfere with your current set-up, physically.
 
A cheap alternative to an expensive chipset cooler is to direct a 12cm fan at the stock cooler. Does wonders.

Also, water-cooling memory is overkill. There is no need for that.

1) After-market cooling for ANYTHING is only needed when you are raising voltages, and the temperatures are sky-rocketing as a result.
 
Well... i know that the A8N-SLI had problems with failing chipset coolers at the start.. the A8N-E is the same board, so i can immagine it has the same chipset cooler,.. and he could have gotten one from that batch.
If your chipset fan simply stopped spinning.. sent a mail to the asus support, and tell them your problem ( perhaps include the S/N of your motherboard)
and i think they would send you a new chipset cooler.
 
zalman makes some passive northbridge coolers. i read up on some reviews and they seem to work pretty well. See if those meet ur criteria.
 
Archangel said:
Well... i know that the A8N-SLI had problems with failing chipset coolers at the start.. the A8N-E is the same board, so i can immagine it has the same chipset cooler,.. and he could have gotten one from that batch.
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The chipset cooler on the A8N-E is quite different from that on the A8N-SLI or SLI Deluxe. They're not so prone to failure.
 
Why all copper?

The only all copper northbridge cooler has LESS surface area (only room for 1 40mm fan), and has 1 heatpipe (compared to the effectively 2 on the HR-05's).
 
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The Thermaltake HR-05 and Thermaltake HR-05 SLI are almost without comparison. If you're up for it, you can mod a Zalman VGA700 to your NB too and thats a great solution

mean i'm going to but the HR-05 SLI but i wish it was all copper.
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Yeah but if it's all copper then it wouldnt be nearly as good as copper has (roughly) 1/3 the heat capacity of aluminum (which is why you'll often find passive coolers are Al rather than Cu)
 
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Yeah but if it's all copper then it wouldnt be nearly as good as copper has (roughly) 1/3 the heat capacity of aluminum (which is why you'll often find passive coolers are Al rather than Cu)
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But with active coolers, they always advertize that its 100% copper etc, that would be because the Fan makes the heatsink get rid of the heat, and copper conducts heat faster than Al, right?
 
I remember reading that aluminium disperses heat better than copper (vice versa for absorbing heat).

Just ignore the material, and go for the best design. Or, read reviews of each product.
 
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Got it in the mail today, it's a really nice Heatsink!!!!
 
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