Suggest a passively cooled MB

[Day03]

At the moment I have the Asus A8N32-Sli mobo and the components which are listed in my sig. I need to RMA it as something has burned out on the mobo but it still works. The thing that made me go for this mobo was the passive cooling (much quieter) and good reviews but I now know that I will never use SLI so 2 PCI-E slots is a waste of space, I could have had one more PCI slot spare which most likely is going to come in useful in future. So now I'm thinking about getting a socket 939 mobo which has passive cooling and does not have SLI. Other option is a mobo that can easily be converted to passive cooling. It needs to be compatible with the other components that I have.

Any recommendations?

 

[roadie]

I have passively cooled my mobo with the blue Zalman thingymejig. My particular EPoX board and the ABIT KN8 Ultra have the chipset above the PCIe slot so there are no issues with positioning of a tall passive heatsink. I guess you could either go the route of replacing a chipset heatsink or going for a board that is cooled passively to start with. However, I am not that up to date with those that are, although ASUS seem to be making a lot of their models silent now.