Method of attaching 60mm fan to a Noctua NC-U6 Northbridge cooler

Teki187 · 13 Mar 2008 at 17:31

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-003-NC&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=399

That's the cooler.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-002-AF&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=818

That's the fan.

Thats the space i have.

Any ideas?

RJC · 13 Mar 2008 at 17:43

Remove the graphics card and attach the fan by cable ties to the heatsink in each
corner, re-insert your GPU all done

Rob

Grumpy · 13 Mar 2008 at 17:46

I thought the idea of this cooler was passive cooling, how hot does your northbridge get that you need to put another fan inside your case?

That said it does look a bit limited for space in there so case flow cooling might not be enuff?

Teki187 · 13 Mar 2008 at 17:56

Thanks for the replies.

First of this cooler was bought to replace my stock cooler.

I have all 4 memory slots full and a 50% cpu overclock going, so my northbridge gets CRAZY hot, you cant even touch it.

The Noctua arrived today and i slapped it on with some MX-2 paste and obviously its still stupidly hot.

If i dont cool it with a fan, my system crashes. It just freezes and you have to force restart it.

Now before i added the noctua, i had a desktop fan blasting air in and with the stock cooler it was stable. Just added the noctua and its now unstable even with the desktop fan. So my guess is i haven't sat it right?

As for the cable ties would they not melt? Sounds stupid

The airflow is very good, normally.

RJC · 13 Mar 2008 at 18:01

Teki187 said:
Thanks for the replies.

As for the cable ties would they not melt? Sounds stupid

The airflow is very good, normally.

They will be fine (you can get metal ones) belongs it does not get stupidly
hot like 100c + cables ties will be fine.

Rob

Teki187 · 13 Mar 2008 at 18:03

RJC said:
They will be fine (you can get metal ones) belongs it does not get stupidly
hot like 100c + cables ties will be fine.

Rob

Cheers