Cooler for Asus P5E-VM HDMI

[Cov]

Hello people

Have narrowed down the CPU cooler for the motherboard I'm gonna order soon.
I just wonder if anyone could tell if that actually fits what I have in mind.

Motherboard: Asus P5E-VM HDMI (and E9400) with:

CPU cooler Asus Triton 75 ... + fan Noctua NC-S12 / 800 or 1200 RPM ?
Or would the Noctua P12 1300 RPM be better ?

or

Zalman CNPS 8700-NT ?

and Northbridge cooler Noctua NC-U6 Dual Heatpipe ... x2 ... one for the northbridge and one for the southbridge.

Would you know if these Northbridge cooler would fit ... next to the CPU cooler ?
And then if another Northbridge cooler could replace the small southbridge one ?

Case will be the Lian Li PC-A05 ... plenty of space there.
But I guess the VGA cooler Thermalright HR-03-GT will be a problem with the GeForce 8800 GT next to a wireless PCI card. I say that because of the very limited space the motherboard has on the PCI sockets side.

Thank you very much.

[staffsMike]

Why bother with a low profile cooler? That case will house anything by the looks of it. If you are having to go that route though get the zalman, it's pretty good from memory.

Something like the thermalright ultima 90 would suit overclocking better.

I also wouldn't bother looking at those north/south bridge coolers either as the PWM temps are going to go through the roof when you try and overclock.

Given that the case will take full ATX I would go for a proper motherboard.

[Cov]

Thanks for your answer.

1. The case seems to have enough space for any CPU Cooler really.

2. Heard that the stock Northbridge cooler gets pretty hot ... why not replacing with a better one ?

3. And please tell me the difference between a full ATX and a mATX board ... as far as I can see, the "proper" motherboard has just more PCI sockets, which I don't need.
What else is on a full ATX board better than on this mATX one ?

If you manage to convince me, I'll follow your advice

[staffsMike]

MicroATX is of course smaller. The reason it's northbridge gets hot is because it's not designed to be overclocked in the way you are expecting it to overclock.

Your CPU runs the motherboards native FSB which means you have no room like the Q6600 has for a simple overclock as it's own FSB (1066)isn't the motherboards native (1333MHz)

That motherboard is very expensive and a lot of that money is going on the onboard graphics.. do you need onbaord graphics?

If you are really intent on overclocking that chip to the speeds it can hit and have that much to spend on a motherboard get this
Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK
it is far superior for overclocking and has all the features you could ever want on a motherboard.

Get a decent HSF like thermalright ultima 90 or sycthe ninja and you will be overclocking with ease. That P5E-VM will just annoy you and make you regret buying it.

Unless you actually have a uATX case there is next to no point having a uATX board plain and simple.

[Webby]

What Mike said! (I seem to be saying that a lot recently... just once i want to get to thread before you )

Anyway as you are looking at the HR-03 as a cooler remember that it has 2 orientations hanging off the card and wrapped around so the heatsink is on the back of the card. if you have it on the front of the card it will occupy the next 3 slots on your MB (with a 25mm fan) See picture below



If you have it wrapped around it will not be an issue unless you have a particularly large north bridge cooler. But (and this is a big but) you will be effectively pushing a lot of hot air out of your graphics card into you CPU cooler which is far from ideal!

If you are worried about the space the HR-03 takes up then I have heard good things about the Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 with the turbo unit (fans) which should take up quite a bit less space.

[staffsMike]

Should start a TJ-08 appreciation club

I really want to go to town on your cabling though haha

[Webby]

As it happens it doesn't look anything like that now, the addition of a Scythe Kama Fan controller front panel (Christmas present from an understanding relation ) has tidied up all the fan cabling and since Friday my HR-03 has been replaced as I'm happy with the not-so-stock cooler on my shiny new 3870 All I wish now is that the BIOS controlled fan tables had it spinning up to 70% at 75ºC rather than just over 70ºC as it cycling between 60 and 70% is more annoying than an annoying things annoying bits and it sits at 70ºC under full load... I know I could use Riva tuner or ATI tool to control the fan but that then uses CPU cycles to control the fan speed rather than the card doing it itself.

Back to cabling and TJ-08's I will take some up to date pictures soon... In fact I may do some re-cabling tomorrow to see how clean I can get it.

[staffsMike]

Sounds awesome, kool points for supporting AMD