MSI k8n neo 4 platinum northbridge

[rough_neck]

A friend of mine owns the above motherboard and the Northbridge fan is driving him mad!

He’s had a look at available coolers and can only find the Zalman NB4J Northbridge heatsink. It would be ideal but for the fact that his gfx card over hangs where it would go , is there any other chipset cooler that he could consider that would not collide with the gfx card?

Thanks in advance!

[trojan698]

some people have modded the zalman in order to allow access to the pci-e slot, ie bent or even chopped off some of the pins! I'll try and hunt down some pics.

[K22]

The solution to this is very simple... and I know what he means, I've heard the fan on that board in full swing! If he install this: http://66.96.84.4/support/swr_exe/mb...eCenter_MB.zip he'll be able to slow the fan down incrementally until he's happy with the volume

K22

[MantisCSS]

hiya m8, i have the same board and ame programe and use it to try n turn my NB fan down n it doesnt amke a difference?

Roughneck does ur Pc crash whenu try to over clock it with that mobo?

[trojan698]

hiya m8, i have the same board and ame programe and use it to try n turn my NB fan down n it doesnt amke a difference?

Roughneck does ur Pc crash whenu try to over clock it with that mobo?

You sure you're overclocking correctly? what settings did you change?

[kushtibari]

I used to have the same board and I used an old Zalman fanmate to regulate the speed. I don't think theres enough space to do it any other way.

Overclocking wise it was a tremendous board. The maximum I ran it was at 333 - I've no doubt that it was capable of going higher, but it was just a nice multi at the time.

[MantisCSS]

i upped the fsb andand also tried the set settings like commander or whatever..
Just crashes after a while with temps fine aslong with new bios

[trojan698]

Try dropping your HT from 5x, to 4x. increasing the vcore to 1.45 and putting your memory on a divider.

[K22]

I have the same board and programme and use it to try n turn my NB fan down n it doesnt make a difference?

When u open the app, you need to click the title 'Corecenter' and that opens the NB fan speed window

[MantisCSS]

that is the CPU fan not the nb fan though?

[MantisCSS]

ok i went into bios and put FSB up to 220 and the pc wouldnt even start... I thought venices were good clockers, it seems like changing anything causes it to not start. I have jsut put it up to commander in corecentre and havent had any probs yet, but then again i havent restarted so i duno..

[trojan698]

Don't overclock using programs, do it manually in the bios. Did you drop your HT to 4x ? and try increasing vcore? If don't know how to do it I'd advise reading up on some overclocking articles beforehand, its not simply a case of increasing fsb anymore.

[MantisCSS]

i understand what u mean by dropping HT, but i cant seem to locate the vcore