cooling the NB on nf4 motherboards

[user1453]

I have an asus a8n sli motherboard and I was woundering if anybody knew of a better cooler than the stock but which wouldn't foul my 6800gt which is a dual slot

[blueprint]

Isn't the stock cooler good enough?

I'm sure they'd put an adequate one on as standard so as it won't overheat.

[ifyouknowme]

akassa evo 33 is good

[ScoTTisH-GingeR]

well i have the same mobo as u m8y but it had the dodgy northbridge cooler on it (u might have the same that 9000rpm fan sucks)

I replaced it myself with a Zalman ZM-NB47J works a treat even with a 7800gtx in the way but if ur gfx card has a artic cooling fan on it ud be better going for a Zalman ZM-NB32J but u will need a dremil or something to cut a wee hole in the artic cooling cooler at the fan side but it also aids the cooling of northbridge in this case

[arthurleung]

I used the ZM-NB47J, and with some air coming from the 8cm fan on top of the dimms to cool it. It is always an option to cut off some of the pins on the NB47J to make your card fit

[blueprint]

I must say actually, the NB cooler on the LanParty SLi-DR is noisy and high-pitched. Cirtainly not beefy.

[arthurleung]

I must say actually, the NB cooler on the LanParty SLi-DR is noisy and high-pitched. Cirtainly not beefy.

I think there should be a new motherboard format
The current ATX format is getting sh*t for high-end setup. Going EATX cost too much, BTX wasn't for high-end system. The ATX format wasn't expecting anything on the motherboard requires a large heatsink. And using a 4cm or smaller fan to get around the problem is just plain stupid.

[blueprint]

How does the ATX thing effect the cooling, or have anything to do with the chipset fan?

[ultim8um]

Board layout... BTX attempts to line up all the heat producing components in a straight path so that a tunnel can be created front to back, thus allowing a single large fan (or two in a push pull arrangement) to cool the CPU / Memory / Northbridge etc.