Hi,
Been a few weeks since I actually installed this but here it is. Some of you recommended the Zalman ZM-NBF47 over HERE. Big Wayne asked me to post so here it is.
Installation: 30-45mins
What you get inside the package:
As you can see, you get all the brackets, screws and thermal grease to install the heatsink. The heatsink itself looks impressive.
Most of my time was taken actually removing the motherboard, I had to do this to remove the stock cooler. This was abit fiddly and time consuming!
Once I had removed the stock cooler from the NF7, I began setting up the Zalman heatsink - attaching all the brackets, screws etc. The instructions were very helpful. Made the job easy!
I was concerned about the actual size of the heatsink as it is rather large and there wasn't all that much space around the northbridge chipset. Took a few minor adjustments and got it nicely fitted (only a few mm to spare though!!)
And there we have it, superb little upgrade. Took no time at all to install, and I think it looks far more attractive than the stock cooler which was originally fitted. Great thing about this heatsink is that it keeps my chipset at a cool 26°C. Make sure you fit an extractor fan inside the main section of your case as the heat will need to be despersed:
Overal I'm really impressed with this little upgrade, replaced my faulty NF7 northbridge HS/F and even knocked off a few more degrees on the temperatures!
4/5!
Been a few weeks since I actually installed this but here it is. Some of you recommended the Zalman ZM-NBF47 over HERE. Big Wayne asked me to post so here it is.
Installation: 30-45mins
What you get inside the package:
As you can see, you get all the brackets, screws and thermal grease to install the heatsink. The heatsink itself looks impressive.
Most of my time was taken actually removing the motherboard, I had to do this to remove the stock cooler. This was abit fiddly and time consuming!
Once I had removed the stock cooler from the NF7, I began setting up the Zalman heatsink - attaching all the brackets, screws etc. The instructions were very helpful. Made the job easy!
I was concerned about the actual size of the heatsink as it is rather large and there wasn't all that much space around the northbridge chipset. Took a few minor adjustments and got it nicely fitted (only a few mm to spare though!!)
And there we have it, superb little upgrade. Took no time at all to install, and I think it looks far more attractive than the stock cooler which was originally fitted. Great thing about this heatsink is that it keeps my chipset at a cool 26°C. Make sure you fit an extractor fan inside the main section of your case as the heat will need to be despersed:
Overal I'm really impressed with this little upgrade, replaced my faulty NF7 northbridge HS/F and even knocked off a few more degrees on the temperatures!
4/5!
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Didn't actually think of that one at the time, sometimes its better the long way round. I mean, all you have to really do is unplug all power, remove graphics card/PCI cards unscrew mother from chassis and then your out! Its probably only about 10 minutes.
