Zalman ZM-NB47J Northbridge Cooler + A8N SLI

[RogueElite1]

Ahhh.... an excuse to re-display my butchering of a Zalman northbridge

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Well, I've finally done it! The zalman heatsink came today and I set to work.

Here was the problem. My Ati Silencer 5 was blocking the stock northbridge fan (which was very noisey!):
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/9834/p10101807cw.jpg
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/9676/p10101814xb.jpg

So I butchered the zalman as there wasnt much room to play with:
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/4633/p10101822qh.jpg
(Notice how big the Freezer 64 pro is!!)

And this is what it looked like put together:
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/381/p10101837dz.jpg
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/3494/p10101843em.jpg
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/8204/p10101857jk.jpg


I drilled some holes in my Silencer to help airflow around the heatsink:
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/4793/p10101880tx.jpg




Here's a general view of my case:
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/7829/p10101778xg.jpg

And as an aside, I got around my intiial fitting of the silnencer by making a hole in the cooler as you can see to allow the capacitors to fit in:
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/8222/p10101860yy.jpg


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It's worth noting 2 things:
1) I've tidied up my case a lot and di a lot of wire managing to improve airflow.
2) The heatsink actually works still!! Never had any problems since I did the job before christmas.

 

[mancubas]

Dude could you of butchered the NB cooler anymore the fussy images could make it look worse than it actually is

What temps are you getting with the NB cooler in that state?

Luckily I have a SLI board which will allow me to use the second PCIe slot spareing the menace of my thin nose pliers to the NB cooler.

ManC

 

[ted34]

Ahhh.... an excuse to re-display my butchering of a Zalman northbridge

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Well, I've finally done it! The zalman heatsink came today and I set to work.

Here was the problem. My Ati Silencer 5 was blocking the stock northbridge fan (which was very noisey!):
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/9834/p10101807cw.jpg
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/9676/p10101814xb.jpg

So I butchered the zalman as there wasnt much room to play with:
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/4633/p10101822qh.jpg
(Notice how big the Freezer 64 pro is!!)

And this is what it looked like put together:
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/381/p10101837dz.jpg
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/3494/p10101843em.jpg
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/8204/p10101857jk.jpg


I drilled some holes in my Silencer to help airflow around the heatsink:
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/4793/p10101880tx.jpg




Here's a general view of my case:
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/7829/p10101778xg.jpg

And as an aside, I got around my intiial fitting of the silnencer by making a hole in the cooler as you can see to allow the capacitors to fit in:
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/8222/p10101860yy.jpg


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Thats brilliant. How were your temps after. I had one of the mounting pins on my zalman 47 fall out the other day (its been removed a few times now and pin on its way out). Temps rocketed to 54degrees as heatsink wasnt touching nb. Alarms woke me up and i just hit ignore from bed and went back to sleep. Still no harm done by morning.

 

[mancubas]

Here is my effort, you'll note its bent gutted.

But it sits at 49c load & idle time to turn up the 120mm fan infront of the case me thinks...