Chipset is getting very hot

[DEL 707]

Just had my 1st crash in awhile, machine completly froze up and made a deafening screaching sound through my headphone.
I restarted and went into the bios and my chipset temp was 61oC.

My machine is overclocked, Athlon 64 X2 4400+ clocked at 2500, I did have crashing problems at the beginning, but I found some stable settings and my machines been running without problem for months.

The chipset fan does sound like it's struggling a bit, my original motherboard blew when it was under warrenty and I'm pretty sure I was sent a 2nd hand board.

I'd like to replace the fan unit, but not sure what to get or how easy it is to do. My motherboard is a DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR EXPERT.

 

[khemist]

Google evercool vc-re - should fit fine and is really quiet and cools very well. Had one on my dfi sli-dr and now my ds3..can be had for about £8.

 

[dante6491]

i have a 60mm akasa amber strapped onto a HR-05... when my computer was working it was umm rather good

 

[DEL 707]

Google evercool vc-re - should fit fine and is really quiet and cools very well. Had one on my dfi sli-dr and now my ds3..can be had for about £8.

Just looked at the evercool, says it's a GPU fan, can it be used on chipsets?

 

[khemist]

Yeah it can be used for both no problem infact it was used by many people with sli-dr boards on dfistreet forums.