What size active chipset coolers does the 8RDA+ accept? I guess what I am asking is how far apart are those holes. I was looking at either the Iceberq4 or the Iceberq4 Pro, but I am unsure which one will fit properly as they have different hole positions.
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active cooling on 8RDA+ NB
- Thread starter MoonWolf
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yea the iceburgs work, i got the older iceburg... the newer ones cant be any diff.....
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How would you go about attaching an AMD stock socket A HS to a 8RDA+ NB?
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lol, wtf a cpu hs? hahahaha well, i would see about geting a nice hs, but not that huge (****) lol
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I glued the alpha one and it shines.
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One thing that always worried me. If you stick some huge CPU HSF onto your northbridge using Arctic Epoxy, what's the chance of ripping out your NB?
It's just that since I always mount my motherboard in a tower case (ie, so it's sideways), dangling 500g worth of HSF from my northbridge doesn't seem like quite the brightest idea. Anyone done this and had it successful? Anyone done this and had the thing fall off?
It's just that since I always mount my motherboard in a tower case (ie, so it's sideways), dangling 500g worth of HSF from my northbridge doesn't seem like quite the brightest idea. Anyone done this and had it successful? Anyone done this and had the thing fall off?
I have 3 of the Zelmans On the way to mess with, Might use it for the NB (can't go above 210 with out issues) or I might cut them up for Ramsinks on my 9500np when it arrives.. I have lapped the heatsink that came with the board and threw on a Tt ram cooler 5000rpm and seems to work good.. For SB cooler I am testing a Voodoo5 gpu cooler as I was getting some cracks in my sound.. since I strapped the V5 cooler on the cracking is gone..
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memory run better in the 2nd channel?
or you just happen to have it there
mines on the 3rd
or you just happen to have it there
mines on the 3rd
I think the stock NB heatsink is pretty good if you add cooling and lap it. I did that and added a 50mm fan(just a dot of superglue on the middle of the heatsink to hold it) and put a NB heatsink from a 266a board on the SB using the holes and pushpins. After this i could easily get to 218 FSB with my normal 8rda, I havent tried higher yet but i probably will tomorrow. I plan on putting heatsinks on the mosfets too. 8rda.com and 8rdafaq.com have some stuff on cooling i think. The holes on the NB and SB are both 50mm on mine.
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The way I see it, since you can get above 200 fsb with the stock passive heatsink, ANY active cooling would more than do the job (I am referring to the 8RDA3+, however, not the 8RDA+, I don't know what that board needs).
