Recent content by Finlander

Order the heatpipe for the ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Board and slap that on your regular A8N-SLI Motherboard, and disable the chipset fan in the BIOS. Been running my system like that for two years now - No fan to worry about, and it won't get in the way of the current generation of video cards, and...

Could do what I did - order the A8N-SLI Premium heatpipe from ASUS e-Store and do away with the fans and other alternatives. It's what I did and I would recommend it to anyone with a A8N-SLI board.

I recently purchased that particular card for my system as it seemed like a good deal, and an upgrade from my X800GTO. I can honestly say I have had no problems with it. I have an AOPEN case, not fancy at all, have two stealth 80mm case fans, and I run ATITOOL so that if the card goes past 50...

The temperature issue after changing the fan was a concern to me, but I do have good case cooling and since it is rocksolid and stable, it has worked good for me. Probably the reason why I was able to hear the fan on my board was because I ran a 120 mm stealth case fan, and everything else was...

The heatpipe does mount over the existing holes. I had to slightly bend the heatpipe about one or two degrees so the holes would line up - One look at my board you'd swear it was a Premium. I was careful to clean off the old thermal material with rubbing alcohol and Q-tips, and I dry fitted...

Hey Folks, I also own an A8N-SLI motherboard whose fan was on its way out. Considering the replacement fans from ASUS are equally poor quality, I decided I would replace the fan with the heatpipe from the A8N-SLI Premium board. The A8N-SLI boards have the same layout. I ordered a heatpipe...