Chipset cooling for old MB.

sakluce · 3 Jul 2013 at 15:16

Hey OC community, have gained very helpful knowledge from here before and am hoping for similar.

I have an old gaming rig that was moved to the office a few years back. It runs on an MSI K8N board (http://uk.msi.com/product/mb/K8N-SLI-Platinum.html).

The chipset fan is dead, I was looking to replace it but am unsure which fan or even heatsink would be best. The one complication is that the graphics card overhangs the place where the fan/heatsink sits so it cant stick out too far off the mainboard. Certainly not much further than the original.

james_2k · 3 Jul 2013 at 15:19

something like this? http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...jLUUd-0KKan0wWIlYGoDg&ved=0CDMQ9QEwAA&dur=288

sakluce · 3 Jul 2013 at 15:24

No, just a replacement similar to the orginal. I've edited the opening post to make it more clear. Can see how it might have read otherwise.

This looks like my only option on the OCUK shop?

james_2k · 3 Jul 2013 at 15:37

well yeah just make sure its the right size then, get the tape out!