nForce MCP massively hot ... aftermarket fan suggestions?
Hiya guys,
I've just built up my PC (well, in fact spent most of Saturday building it then had to wait til yesterday to install the RAM), and all is mostly good with it. Spec is as per thingummy on the left.
I got the basics installed and went into WoW. I've forced 4xAA and 16xAF in the graphics card settings, and was running @ 1920x1200 (native res). After about five minutes, the screen froze and reverted back to a static image of what I'd been looking at in game about five minutes previously. This held for a few moments before the PC bluescreened and automatically rebooted. As it restarted, I went into the BIOS and checked the temperatures. All were seemingly normal apart from the MCP was at 110 degrees Celsius.
I don't know much about temperatures, but I do know that that's rather a lot, so I let it cool down and then added the optional fan that came with the motherboard, to attach to the Heatstink that's connected via a heatpipe to the MCP. I hadn't attached it by default because it states that it's only necessary when using passive or liquid cooling, whereas I have 2x120mm Sharkoon fans front and rear, and an Arctic Freezer 7 Pro HSF on the CPU. After fitting it, even a hard session didn't seem to push the temp above 60 degrees, and I had no more problems, so this would appear to have been the cause.
The problem is that this little fan runs at 5,000rpm and is pretty much the only audible thing in the case. I'm after some help please to try and cool it in some other way, without having this racket going on inside my computer. Any suggestions? Maybe a quieter, after-market fan for this MCP heatsink, or a friend even suggested a spot-fan that I could point at the heatsink that might be less noisy.
Advice gratefully received :)