Atom 230 board, fans

[BusError]

I use a Jetway Atom 230 board (similar to Intel and Gigabyte), and the 40mm fan on the chipset annoys anyone who tries one of these boards.

Turns out that if your mini-itx chassis has room for a PCI card (with raiser) and you are not using it, it's in fact rather easy to replace the 40mm by a 80x80x25mm fan (I used a Zalman). Just don't try to have it just over the chipset, instead you can have it cover the chipset and the CPU, neatly against the memory stick.
I manufactured a "mount" for it using plastic pins, and secured it with a cable tie. It's rather neatly done and there is some space left !

That fan runs at maximum 1000rpm and keeps the board a lot cooler than the tiny original!

I'll take a picture of the assembly tomorrow.

 

[Guardsmon]

Cool. Thanks for the headsup. I've got a Atom 330 here and at the moment haven't had any issues with the CPU fan, though I haven't installed an OS yet, only booted into bios.

 

[bledd]

Guardsmon did you get the Intel board? I'm really want to get one of these, but stocks have vanished in the uk for decent prices it seems

the CPU has no fan iirc, it's just the chipset

 

[BusError]

Guardsmon does the 330 appear as '4' processors ? The 230 is in fact quite nice already, most especialy in 64 bits mode. I compiled a 'custom' kernel for it and I must say I am pleasantly surprised by the speed for the server tasks it's doing here...

 

[gt_junkie]

I have the Intel 330 and it's great.

To answer the Q's above the HT dual cores show up as 4 cores in task manager and it only has a cooling fan on the processor - runs incredibly cool!

gt