Anybody bought this and have any thoughts on it?
My northbridge fan just gave out because ITS OWN CABLE kept getting caught in the fan blades. MSI wants to charge me 10 bux for a new one, despite the mobo being under warranty. Figured I'd shop around.

Newegg link:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835109131

1/13/2007 3:14:03 AM

most of the heat pipe ones are fine, jsut make sure you have room for air flow across the heatpipe radiator section. some of the newest boards out comes with all the on board stuff heatpiped to a suround box that the processor HSF setup drops into so they use its fan air movement. I have not used one on my main machine just due to my obsession with WC. Depending on your northbridge temps, you may be able to do a massive non hp passive like some of the old zallman chipset/gpu coolers.

1/13/2007 7:12:52 AM