Northbridge cooling??
I know that a heatsink is needed on the northbridge, but is it really
neccessary to have a fan on it also? I've seen many motherboards with and without a fan on the northbridge heatsink. LK |
Levi Kudrna wrote:
I know that a heatsink is needed on the northbridge, but is it really neccessary to have a fan on it also? I've seen many motherboards with and without a fan on the northbridge heatsink. LK My northbridge fan died in the first week (or at least started to die, making much noise) so I replaced it with a zalman northbridge heat sink. That was...well...at least a year ago...I can't really remember how long ago, probably because there've been no issues. However, I wouldn't just remove a fan from a northbridge heat sink. Replace the heat sink and fan with a better heat sink, like the ones Zalman offer. -- spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo |
no the northbridge heatsink fan is completely unneccessary and just a noise
maker. if you look at all the boards actually made by intel none of them include a fan on the northbridge. "Levi Kudrna" wrote in message ... I know that a heatsink is needed on the northbridge, but is it really neccessary to have a fan on it also? I've seen many motherboards with and without a fan on the northbridge heatsink. LK |
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:48:16 -0600, Levi Kudrna wrote:
I know that a heatsink is needed on the northbridge, but is it really neccessary to have a fan on it also? I've seen many motherboards with and without a fan on the northbridge heatsink. It depends. Some northbridge chips produce more heat than others (just like some cpus produce more heat than others). Also some MB makers use bigger heatsinks in place of a small heat sink + fan. Personally I tend to choose motherboards without a NB fan if all other considerations are equal. If it's for my own use and I get a MB with a NB fan I normally replace the heatsink with a larger one and secure it with a good thermal adhesive such as AS (for new boards) or superglue for used boards. Actually SuperGlue is surprisingly effective thermally but I worry a bit about it eating the plastic packaging. I don't worry about the noise but failures are for small/cheap/thin fans are common and I think the symptoms of a NB fan failure (random memory corruption, maybe just on warm days) would be easy to miss so I prefer to eliminate that possibility when the system is new and I'm still thinking about it. -- Ray |
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