Two good chipset coolers?

[Valtiel]

Hello, I will be buying the Asus P5N-E Sli 650i Chipset board and I will be overclocking. I read an article on [H]ardOCP that the chipset coolers are not very good so i'm looking for a quality pair of heatsinks/HSFs for both the north and south bridge.

 

[sarsoft]

Here is a similar cooler which is flexable and cools good.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835116018

You dont need a cooler on SB but if you want it anyway you can put one.

 

[bigsby]

If you can fit it, you can get the Zalman fanless NB cooler. I can't remember the exact model but it's blue, and is flower shaped, and it cools like a godsend, but it takes up quite a bit of space, so if it's right under your graphics card, it won't fit.

 

[sarsoft]

If you can fit it, you can get the Zalman fanless NB cooler. I can't remember the exact model but it's blue, and is flower shaped, and it cools like a godsend, but it takes up quite a bit of space, so if it's right under your graphics card, it won't fit.

Do you mean this one.
ZALMAN ZM - NBF 47
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118014

 

[clue69less]

South bridge should be fine at stock. I use the Jingting Forcetake on my Nforce 4 NB.

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/4064/vid-64/Jing_Ting_Forcetake_Offset_Heatpipe_Chipset_Cooler_-_Rev_2.html

It's an excelent and flexable cooler. So you can orient it in any way you need so it's out of the way of your CPU cooler.

I've tried that one and the Thermalright dual heat pipe unit. Both were better performers than the stock coolers but the fan on my Jing was pretty loud. I got some quieter fans and although the temps went up a couple of degrees, it was a good tradeoff. I am partial to the Thermalright because the offset pipes allowed me to get clearance from the GPU.

 

[clue69less]

Problem with the TT is you have to flip the fan to the other side to get clear of the video card. Yes it has t heatpipes but they are smaller then the Jing Ting. With the Jing ting the HS can swival on that heatpipe and lay down flat against the motherboard if needed. No to mention it's got more copper fins then the TT.

Well, the proof is in the temps and the Thermalright (not TT) works great, in fact mine runs a couple degrees cooler than my Jing. I have not swapped them to compare directly, but they are on the same model mobo at the same OC with the same model CPU, so I'm guessing it's a fair comparison. I picked up low profile fans so the Thermalright takes up less space than the Jing, alot less. Put it this way - I like them both and have not replaced the Jing with a Thermalright, but I do prefer it over the Jing.

 

[Valtiel]

I think I will go with the lowest priced of the two heatsinks.

Jing Ting (with fan): $34.99

Thermalright HR-05 SLi (without fan): $19.99

Can someone recommend a good (quiet/high CFM) fan to go with the HR-05 SLi?

 

[clue69less]

I think I will go with the lowest priced of the two heatsinks.

Jing Ting (with fan): $34.99

Thermalright HR-05 SLi (without fan): $19.99

Can someone recommend a good (quiet/high CFM) fan to go with the HR-05 SLi?

I need to look through my links because the fans I got were some brand I'd never heard of before. I found them by looking at the "Where to Buy" page on Vantec's web site but that doesn't narrow it down much. I was going for something a bit on the quieter side so the ones I have might not push enough air for you.

 

[chuckshissle]

The south bridge should be fine with the stock heat sink. As for the north bridge chip set, here's the best air cooler. Thermalright HR 05 and the HR 05 SLI, both the same except for the heatpipe bend on the SLI version. Make sure you have enough space in your mobo for this a large heat sink. You can also place an 80 to 90 mm fan and secure it with them tiny zip ties.

If you can you can do the same I did and place a 90mm fan on top of the card and secure it, blowing cool air towards the northbridge heatsink. I replaced my stock fan (tiny loud fan) and got the temps now at 35c-40c. So don't buy any chipset cooler just yet, and test it first with your overclocking settings. If it's unstable or just too hot for the northbridge then you get the after market cooler for it.

HR 05
http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/main_product_hr05.htm

HR 05 SLI
http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/main_product_hr05sli.htm

Reviews:

HR 05
http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=530

HR 05 SLI
http://www.pcmoddingmy.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.385.1

http://www.overclockersonline.net/index.php?page=articles&num=641&pnum=0



That's an Aspire 90mm low rpm fan setting on top of the 7800GTX and cooling the north bridge chipset with it's stock heatsink. The tiny stock fan was loud and doesn't even cool well at 5000rpm. This 90mm is now doing a fine job cooling the N/B and stabilizing my overclocking as well.

 

[chuckshissle]

You only need a low rpm fan for the HR-05 coolers and it will cool the chipset really well. Base on the review the fanless HR-05 still does a good job compare to stock coolers.

 

[Valtiel]

Is that 90mm Fan a case fan? If so I'd probably just get the one you have.
Noise is more of a secondary issue to me because I don't really care about it being TOO noisy. I mean it's a little annoying but right now I have the side off of my current case (an HP proprietary one :x) and it doesn't bother me in the least. I think better cooling for me would be greater than noisiness

 

[chuckshissle]

It's an Aspire 90mm low rpm fan. Got from Newegg for cheap price. With the Asus P5N-E mobo your getting I think you can place this on top of the graphics card blowing cool air to the mobo northbridge heatsink and should cool it down dramatically. Just like mine.

Before I have the tiny stock fan in my Gigabyte GA-8N SLI Royal mobo and it runs at 5000rpm, no kidding. It was not even cooling it, but then several months later the fast spinning tiny fan finally worn out it's bearings and started to make noise.

So I got rid of it, because it's emanating not a loud but annoying sound of grinding, with it's worn out bearing. So I took it off and as a result the northbridge chip got hot and becoming unstable with my overclocking. It was hot enough that I can't place my on it heatsink for over a second. It's like 85c base on my thermometer reading.

I was about to replace it with the HR-05 cooler but I tried on the Aspire 90mm fan and that thing cooled it down to 35c-40c and it's quite too.

So I would suggest you try this at least and save up some money.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I have the Zalman ZM-47J installed on my Gigabyte DS3 and am running my FSB at 400mhz. I've had no issues. It's a good little cooler and the cost is like $10, depending on where you shop.

 

[Valtiel]

I think I'll just go with the HR-05 SLi because it already dropped my budget to below $1000 (for the whole system) and I like it's look and recommendations. It also says it comes with an optional 70mm fan so I'll see how that works out on my Asus P5N-E 650i board.

 

[chuckshissle]

That would be good too and make sure to have a nice LED fan on it for more bling.

 

[Valtiel]

You know it As the proud owner of an Antec Nine Hundred I don't shy away from bling (and industrial tuniq-tower-120-looks) :lol:

 

[wun911]

I have that MB





That is how I cool my NB

 

[Valtiel]

Cool.

 

[wun911]

HR 05 didnt cool the NB that well, thats why I had to move to water.

HR05 did nothing to improve the preformance but water did.

 

[chuckshissle]

Tuniq Tower 120 and the HR-05, hmmmm. You need to check on the space bro. Unless you get that HR-05 SLI and set the fins closer down the graphics card.

 

[wun911]

Sorry I only have experience with it on my MB....

All I know is the 659i chipset is friggin hot when you start to OC....
And really a HR05 just does not cut the cake when you want to push your FSB to 500

 

[chuckshissle]

Mine does the same, the GA-8N SLi Royal mobo is really hot, but since I could only push the limits of the 840 to 4Ghz on water I figure I don't need my water block on the northbridge. I got the fan alternative instead and focus the cooling to the cpu. FSB is at 250 but the N/B is working just fine and at 40c, stable for the overclock. Get some errors on Prime95 about 1 hour or so but not on my actual programs and games I used for this rig.

 

[fullerms]

I am also using the ZALMAN ZM - NBF 47. Its a good cooler, but a pain to install. On my MSI K9NU Neo-V it would not install parallel to the VGA / CPU, installing perpendicular meant no clearance for the VGA card.

Had to install it diagonally finally. Observed a 2-3 degree difference with the stock Zalman TIM supplied with the cooler. Will be applying AS-5 shortly, suggest you do the same with any cooler you choose.

 

[Valtiel]

And really a HR05 just does not cut the cake when you want to push your FSB to 500

There is no way I'll be getting anywhere near 500 FSB
I want my E6600 to run at 3.4-3.6 so that's 380-400 FSB
considering 500FSB is 4.5Ghz... uh uh not gonna happen :?

@Chuckshissle

I'm not planning on SLi (anytime soon but I like to keep my options open) I'll just put the HR-05 in whatever config it fits.

 

[Valtiel]

I'm still confused about whether it will fit on a P5N-E SLi board though? I checked thermalright's website and I didn't see anything about incompatibility or compatibility over nforce4 (maybe the website hasn't been updated in awhile?) Does anyone know for sure if it will work?

the HR-05-SLI is designed to fit on almost any multi GPU motherboard including NVIDIA SLI and ATI CrossFire.

Well I answered my own question. Good performance too (In that review at least, PC Modding Malaysia).