Question AsRock J-5040 ITX Active Cooling

[Albinius]

I'm in the possession of this motherboard and would like active cooling.

I have been looking around the net but can't find any useful info related to this subject.

The only thing I found out it had a BGA-1090 socket. But found no cooling for that.
Neither any adapters or heatsinks..

I know I can resolve this by ziptying a fan to the sink somehow, but I'd like a more 'elegant' solution.

Do you guys have any idea where I could find this?

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome tot he forums, newcomer!

You're actually staring at the "elegant" solution which would be the passive heatsink on the board. The TDP of the processor is low enough to run passively. In fact I worked on the Asus Prime J3355I-C in an Antec ISK VESA-U3. The build is silent and the board has a fan header than would allow a fan to go onto the heatsink though the heatsink doesn't have any mounting holes to secure a fan on, meaning I'd need to hot glue the fan to the heatsink or have the fan mounted to the case panel and have air blow across it...if I wanted to however the build doesn't need active cooling.

The CPU_FAN header on the ASRock board is actually 3 pin, so you should look into a 3pin 80mm or smaller fan by Noctua.

 

[Albinius]

Thanks for that answer! Appreciate it.

Its what i feared a little. The only remaining question is then: The sink is connected to the mobo with 4pins. Why is the heatsink not soldered down, since these pins are easily removed? (I think)