Guide: Cooling Your Chipset...

NickS

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Hello everyone!

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Now a days, manufacturers like to cut back on cost by supplying you with a shoddy heatsink with no fan to cool you're chipset. Problem is, High-End chipset's like the nForce Series, and Intel's 865+ Series, get warm, and could overheat and limit overclocking ability, especailly when you start raising Chipset Voltage.

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To install a small, 40mm fan on the stock heatsink, to cure the problem, will aid in overclocking, and won't break you're bank.

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First, go find a 40mm Fan!

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Here's mine, a small CoolerMaster that I found in my parts bin.

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Now, take a piece of string, and tie it through the top right hole, and make a knot. Then take a #2 pencil and place it in-between the two pieces of string left on each side, and tie another knot around the pencil, creating a small loop! :)

Also do this for the bottom left.

If you're chipset cooler is like mine, with the two pegs on each side, place the loops over the pegs.

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Make sure, that the bottom of the fan is facing the chipset, that is where the airflow goes.

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There's the bottom.

Now, make sure you're loops are going to stay hooked to the pegs, and plug the fan in and turn on you're computer!

Now you're chipset is chilly cold! These fan's tend to be quiet too, unless you get a high-speed one. Mine spins around 4000 RPM and I can't notice a difference from when I didn't have it in my computer.

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You may notice how my cooler is a little lower than the top of my chipset heatsink. This is because of the placement of the nForce 3 chipset, and my large BFG cooler.

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There ya go! Good luck!

Some good 40MM Fan's

(Quietest, Lowest Performance)

Panasonic FBK04F12L 40mm Ball Cooling Fan

RPM: 4700

dBa: 23

CFM: 3.9

Connection: 3-Pin

(Quiet, Good Performance)

Antec 76005 40mm Ball Cooling Fan

RPM: 2200

dBa: 26

CFM: 6.5

Connection: 4-Pin Molex

(Loud, Good Performance)

Panasonic FBK04F12H - OG18 40mm Ball Cooling Fan

RPM: 7500

dBa: 32

CFM: 6.7

Connection: 3-Pin

(Loudest, Extreme Performance)

Dynatron DF124028BA 40mm 2 Ball Cooling Fan

RPM: 8700

dBa: 37

CFM: 11.3

Connection: 3-Pin

Enjoy! :o
 
wow, cool i would do it, but i dont think a sis chipset deserves it to be honest its sooooo crappy! i will however rep you on a job well done!
 
Nice one Nick, cept you forgot to mention on the LANPARTY UT the chipset would be unavailable for cooling for those of us with a GPU cooler that takes up 2 slots :(

Meh...I'll be ok!! :D

Reps for you chap!
 
i picture him turning on his comp, the fan isnt held down by the string because it is too strong and it starts flying all over his case, suspended by a bunjee rope of string. it attacks all capacitators on his mobo and destroys anything in its path. but his chipset is cold :)
 
name='Dave' said:
i picture him turning on his comp, the fan isnt held down by the string because it is too strong and it starts flying all over his case, suspended by a bunjee rope of string. it attacks all capacitators on his mobo and destroys anything in its path. but his chipset is cold :)

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The rampaging fan of death!! :rollingla
 
ROFL. one time i tried to mount this athlon xp fan on my 5200 heatsink. i got it on, barely. about 10 mins later while surfin teh net, i heard this thunk, then a terrible grinding noise, and then something richocheting around my case ROFL.

it scared the shit out of me, i jumped a foot LOL

i peered in my window and saw the fan on the bottom of my case, along with my case usb front cable half way grinded down and a piece of plastic (the blade) on the top of my video card (how'd it get there?)

here's a pic of the fan rofl. the amd hologram is all fkered up too LOL :rollingla

these fans are VICIOUS. :eek:

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heres my old case

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That's quite a nice case apart from being a colur reminiscient of me after a Tai Curry and 14pints

:rollingla :all_cohol :all_cohol :beer: :evil: :beer: :wiggle:
 
a grest type of fan to use for heatsinks are graphics card fans as essentially they are the same size . NOTE FOR YOU ABIT USERS abit have the cheapest crappiest NB fans ever created about 50% of them make this grinding noise which usually inicates they are about to die :( also it may be worth removing your NB fan cleaning up the over-applied goop and puttin some nice AS5 on there

P1 MMX is a 40 mm fan if fine they wer all 40mm up to early (slot cartridge based) pentium 3
 
name='Dave' said:
it has to be 40mm....so no

yeah wut are you smoking? I guess you werent into PC's when those things were the shit. 40mm's, dave. p1 - p3 (Coppermine) were 40mm.
 
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