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- Jan 11, 2004
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- New York, NY
ok, the decision to make a $200 mobo that has no active NB cooling is beyond me... but oh well...
so I got this mobo and i am trying to get a nice high FSB out of it. I was worried about NB cooling so I wanted to replace (or mod) the stock NB cooling solution.
I ordered a Zalman NB-32J and some AS5 adhesive but after looking at the way it mounts to the NB I decided not to even install it.... the ASUS has clips and no screw holes next to the NB so the installation would not be as "tight" as the stock cooling.
my next thought is to simply add a fan (40mm) to the existing heatsink... but I cannot figure out exactly how to do this.. I have heard some peeps suggest epoxy or superglue but even that you are basically glueing to almost no surface area at the edge of the heatsink fins... is this correct??
any other ideas out there? how important is NB cooling in general? I have left my box running for days at 279fsb and the heatsink is only warm to the touch so I don't think that its really too bad but perhaps at 290+ fsb things get really toasty?
so I got this mobo and i am trying to get a nice high FSB out of it. I was worried about NB cooling so I wanted to replace (or mod) the stock NB cooling solution.
I ordered a Zalman NB-32J and some AS5 adhesive but after looking at the way it mounts to the NB I decided not to even install it.... the ASUS has clips and no screw holes next to the NB so the installation would not be as "tight" as the stock cooling.
my next thought is to simply add a fan (40mm) to the existing heatsink... but I cannot figure out exactly how to do this.. I have heard some peeps suggest epoxy or superglue but even that you are basically glueing to almost no surface area at the edge of the heatsink fins... is this correct??
any other ideas out there? how important is NB cooling in general? I have left my box running for days at 279fsb and the heatsink is only warm to the touch so I don't think that its really too bad but perhaps at 290+ fsb things get really toasty?