Northbridge

Captain Kirk · 2 Nov 2006 at 19:54

I need a decent Northbridge cooler. Preferrably an active one (i.e. with a fan) but not too loud. The Epox 8RGM2I mobo I have has a rubbish passive northbridge that's almost just a lump of metal.
Any opinions?

Neoni · 2 Nov 2006 at 20:41

ocuk do one.

well - they used to.

gurusan · 2 Nov 2006 at 23:13

Zalman makes a good passive sink, if you have decent airflow in your case it should be sufficient.

What kind of temps are you hitting right now? Sure the passive cooler isn't doing it's job?

Captain Kirk · 3 Nov 2006 at 17:23

Well, the rig isn't currently in a case, so airflow is ok. Temp is around 45 degrees, but the heatsink is very warm, I just want ot replace it with something better. I've been looking at the hr-05 by thermalright.

YooEntSinMeROYT · 6 Nov 2006 at 01:43

Captain Kirk said:
Well, the rig isn't currently in a case, so airflow is ok. Temp is around 45 degrees, but the heatsink is very warm, I just want ot replace it with something better. I've been looking at the hr-05 by thermalright.

I've just got hold of one of those (the SLI one) for my DFI SLI-DR.
Should be fitting it tomorrow or the day after so will let you know how it performs once I've fitted it.

Current temps of the mobo chip is 60deg with the standard HSF.

I'll probably strap a fan to the Thermalright if I've got room beside my SLI setup.

Cyber-Mav · 6 Nov 2006 at 01:46

nb-1 is a cool heatsinks to use.

Raikiri · 6 Nov 2006 at 03:34

http://www.thermaltake.com/product/Cooler/VGAnCHIPnMEM/cl-c0034/cl-c0034.asp

apparently quite good

Gibbs · 6 Nov 2006 at 10:15

Jung Ting TS-0006 is a cracking wee NB cooler, and slient to with a small 40mm fan, works a treat on myDS3 which gets pretty toasty

CarlD · 6 Nov 2006 at 11:59

Raikiri said:
http://www.thermaltake.com/product/Cooler/VGAnCHIPnMEM/cl-c0034/cl-c0034.asp

apparently quite good

That's mad :eek:

rangor gubbins · 6 Nov 2006 at 13:02

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Other_Coolers.html

YooEntSinMeROYT · 7 Nov 2006 at 00:41

YooEntSinMeROYT said:
I've just got hold of one of those (the SLI one) for my DFI SLI-DR.
Should be fitting it tomorrow or the day after so will let you know how it performs once I've fitted it.

Current temps of the mobo chip is 60deg with the standard HSF.

I'll probably strap a fan to the Thermalright if I've got room beside my SLI setup.

OK, fitted the Thermalright HR05 tonight.
Got an 80mm fan fixed to it & the temps have gone from 60deg with the standard HSF to 41 deg with the Thermalright.

All in all I'm pretty well chuffed.
It's as wide as my 7900GTX gfx card though :eek:

But fits in with my SLI GTX's on my DFI SLI-DR mobo quite nicely.