Hello,
As most people with a modern fan cooled Asus motherboard will know, their nothbridge fans can make a hell of a noise. Strangely enough mine doesn't all the time but most of the day at least, not sure if they are temperature controlled or it just has funny moods.
Either way I own an ASUS A8N-E and want to fit a passive northbridge cooler to it, now I have done this before, on a lower specification rig using the same motherboard. This rig isn't used for gaming and the cooler works very well, I've had zero problems with it. I used a standard Zalman ZM-NB47J which had no problems with clearance or anything like that, it was easy to fit as well.
So I decided that I might as well go ahead and fit it to my gaming machine, which has the same motherboard, the only problem I thought I might have would be with overheating during games, something that the other machine would never do as it can run any. But I never got that far, there is no clearance between my aftermarket graphics card cooler, also a Zalman product, in this case the very good VF700-Cu.
So before I start bending parts of it what I'm wondering is if anyone has the same board, graphics card cooler and a passive northbridge cooler, a tall order I know. But anyone with most of these products I'd love to hear their recommendations and any advice.
I also noticed that Zalam now have a new Northbridge cooler, the ZM-NBF47. Does anyone have any experience with it? Is it any good? Could it solve my clearance problem? Looks easier to modify if it doesn't.
Thanks,
Mark
Speed
As most people with a modern fan cooled Asus motherboard will know, their nothbridge fans can make a hell of a noise. Strangely enough mine doesn't all the time but most of the day at least, not sure if they are temperature controlled or it just has funny moods.
Either way I own an ASUS A8N-E and want to fit a passive northbridge cooler to it, now I have done this before, on a lower specification rig using the same motherboard. This rig isn't used for gaming and the cooler works very well, I've had zero problems with it. I used a standard Zalman ZM-NB47J which had no problems with clearance or anything like that, it was easy to fit as well.
So I decided that I might as well go ahead and fit it to my gaming machine, which has the same motherboard, the only problem I thought I might have would be with overheating during games, something that the other machine would never do as it can run any. But I never got that far, there is no clearance between my aftermarket graphics card cooler, also a Zalman product, in this case the very good VF700-Cu.
So before I start bending parts of it what I'm wondering is if anyone has the same board, graphics card cooler and a passive northbridge cooler, a tall order I know. But anyone with most of these products I'd love to hear their recommendations and any advice.
I also noticed that Zalam now have a new Northbridge cooler, the ZM-NBF47. Does anyone have any experience with it? Is it any good? Could it solve my clearance problem? Looks easier to modify if it doesn't.
Thanks,
Mark
Speed