Northbridge Cooling Replacement

Ph4lanx

Ph4lanx

Ph4lanx

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Guys, need a bit of help. I'm looking to make my server board a bit quieter and wanted to remove the northbridge cooler (tiny fast-spinning fan) and replace it with this: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SY-007-ZA&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=399

The motherboard is an ASUS P5ND2-SLI: http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=0N4fWKGe1CCsPDnW

Do you think the cooler would fit the motherboard? It's not overclocked, so I'm not expecting massive things from the cooler, just want a quieter system. :)

I've never replaced a northbridge cooler before so I'm not sure if it's as simple as it seems.
 
OK cool. Well from looking at the board in the case, I can see definite mounting points, so it looks the same. I guess it's worth the risk (cheap!).

Thanks :)
 
That stock cooler on your board looks very similar to the one on my Gigabyte Ep43-UD3L Rev 1.2 and the Zalman will not fit that no matter how i orientate the heatsink and mounts.
 
I think that what they mean is that it can handle the heat dump and not that it will fit every chipset.

That one did'nt fit mine either. I have all three of Zalmans NB coolers and none of them fitted my NB so i ended up re-using the stock cooler but after cleaning off the crap thermal stuff that Gigabyte uses and putting some MX-2 on it instead. Damn thing does'nt half get hot though.
 
Well you see I want to just get rid of the fan, as I it makes quite a buzz, and I want the server to run as quiet as possible.
 
Measure the distance between your mounting holes and i will see if any of the Zalmans will fit your spacing. I have all three so this would be the easiest option and it will sort out the will it or won't it fit question.
 
Thats a bit closer together than the mounting holes on my P43 board so after some measuring the ZM-NBF47 will not fit.

The ZM-NB47J and ZM-NB32K may fit but will depend on the proximity of your cpu cooler. This was another problem i had as my Zalman 9500 is rather large and the chipset is quite close to the cpu socket.

This may be a better bet as it's thinner but being a copper heatpipe cooler it should give cooler temps. Not sure what the mounting mechanism is like though.
 
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