A good chipset cooler?

MR.B

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Can someone recommend me a good chipset cooler? I have a DFI NF4 SLI-DR and the mobo fan has gotten insanely loud.
I'd prefer one with a fan, even though i hate them because of the noise, but i've already tried a Zalman ZM-NB47J (fanless) and it got too hot. (but i had to cut it down to make it fit)

I want a good quiet cooler, and it has to be low in height or it wont fit, becase my graphics cards end goes over the chipset.

I was looking at Vantec Iceberq 4, even though it's for graphics cards i know it can be fitted on to my board.
Would anything else be good??
 
Raikiri said:
My northbridge was too loud, so I unplugged it and done this ;)

Blu-tac 4tw

Lowered temps by about 5c as well, thats a 90mm antec tricool @ 1400rpm
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How are you measuring your chipset temp?
Most boards don't seem to have thermal probes on the chipset.
 
Raikiri said:
Yeah they do, it is the "case temp"
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Are you sure?

Both my asus a8n sli deluxe and a8n x16 sli deluxe have a 'system' temperature and asus have confirmed that it does not measure chipset temperature, and they both do not have a probe on the chipset.

It is a common mistake for people to assume that the 'system' temperature measures the chipset. It resulted in a few bsods for me untill i found out.

Have you checked your temps with a probe to make sure?
If epox put probes on their chipsets, that will certainly make me consider them next time i need a board, as i don't think many boards do this.

Asus told me that their system/case probe is next to the vreg heatsink, so it measures slightly higher than the real case temp.
 
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Well my DFI has specifically chipset temp in the BIOS, not system temp.

Thats a interesting idea Raikiri... might do that. Do you have a nforce 4 board?

That Jing Ting cooler that was linked looks good but i've looked around for it before and cant find it in the UK anywhere...
 
MR.B said:
Well my DFI has specifically chipset temp in the BIOS, not system temp.

Thats a interesting idea Raikiri... might do that. Do you have a nforce 4 board?

That Jing Ting cooler that was linked looks good but i've looked around for it before and cant find it in the UK anywhere...
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Yep nforce 4 SLi, I know mine measures the northbridge as system temp because it changes depending on the fan speed.
 
Raikiri said:
Yep nforce 4 SLi, I know mine measures the northbridge as system temp because it changes depending on the fan speed.
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So does the nf4 sli have a thermal probe, and asus boards simply don't use it? :confused:

Your chipset fan might be being controlled using a different temperature, probably cpu temperature...
 
MR.B said:
Can someone recommend me a good chipset cooler? I have a DFI NF4 SLI-DR and the mobo fan has gotten insanely loud
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Sure ASUS make a nice chipset cooler + you get a free motherboard as well! :eek:

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lol helpful as ever! :p

[edit] I expect DFI should incorporate a nice passive solution is their future mobos, that will make the buyings decisions a bit tougher for non benchmarkers!
 
Joe42 said:
So does the nf4 sli have a thermal probe, and asus boards simply don't use it? :confused:

Your chipset fan might be being controlled using a different temperature, probably cpu temperature...
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No, look at the pic ;)

I control the fan speed
 
Jokester said:
As far as I'm aware all NF4 boards report the chipset temp, normally you get the CPU, chipset and PWMIC temps.

Jokester
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I have an a8n sli deluxe and an a8n32 sli deluxe and neither officially report chipset temperature.
Asus Tech Support said:
Where is the 'system' temperature probe located, as it does not report the temperature of either
chipset, or voltage regulator.

MB-TEMP sensor ,it is located at VRM part , not under heatsink .
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The only readings in Asus pc probe 1 on my a8n sli deluxe are cpu and system.
The only readings on Asus pc probe 2 on my a8n32 sli deluxe are cpu and mb
System and MB are the same sensor, which reports something a bit hotter than case temp as its on the pcb next to the vrm. Thats all Asus supports.

On the a8n32, speedfan does report a 'remote temp' and 'local temp' in adition to 'cpu' and 'mb' and i think 'local temp' may be on part of the chipset, however its not oficially recognised/supported by asus.
'Remote temp' is definately on vrm2, as mounting a fan on it knocked it down by 10 degrees.

I measured chipset temps on the a8n sli, and nothing that speedfan picks up corresponds to it or anywhere near, and none of them change when i stop the fan and allow the chipset to heat up.
I can't do this experiment on the a8n32 as the chipset and vrm1 are linked by heatpipe and stay around the same temperature. Also theres no fan i can stop to see what heats up.
 
Raikiri said:
No, look at the pic ;)

I control the fan speed
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I meant before that when you were using the original cooler.

Edit: After some prodding about with my temperature probe, it would seem that local temp is vrm1 and remote temp is vrm2, so no probe on the chipset, although the chipset is linked by heatpipe to vrm1
Therefore, neither of those asus boards support the probe in nf4 in any way, and probably aren't connected to it if there is one.

I'm left confused as to why vrm1 is cooler than vrm2, despite the fact that vrm 2 has fans on it and vrm1 is connected to a pair of hot chipsets...
Perhaps local temp is somewhere else... :confused:

Edit2: Its probably because vrm1 is copper.
 
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