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charles
10-13-02, 09:50 PM
I have the fire dragon from soyo and need to cool the chip set down but dont know which fan will fit it. Can you suggest one to me .
Thanks, Charles

Nebulous
10-13-02, 10:01 PM
Try a crystal orb from thermaltake.

charles
10-13-02, 10:02 PM
The blue orb ?

Gnufsh
10-13-02, 10:05 PM
The crystal orb is far superior to the blue orb. You may also look at vantec copper iceburg chipset/vga cooling kit. Zalman also makes a NB cooler.

Yodums
10-13-02, 11:01 PM
I would suggest you just use Arctic Alumina for safety reasons as Arctric Silver is capactive and Arcit Alumina isn't conductive nor capactive. Also you can try lapping it which would help it greatly. I personally think buying 1U Coolers, Corbs, or Icebergs are a waste of money because people don't realise that a chipset puts out 30-35watts of heat max and adding better thermal transfer would help greatly and having a lapped heatsink would too.

Codeman05
10-13-02, 11:22 PM
I'm using the Vantec Copper and used Artic Alumina. Made a pretty nice difference in temps, of course the stock HS sucked lol. But the temp did drop about 5C