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NB cooling on a P5B

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I oppted to not get the P5B deluxe, i love the idea of built in wifi and the cooling solution for the chipset, but other then that i couldn't justify the price (or could i? ).

I've been to frozencpu.com but i'm not sure what fits, i didn't look at it too closely but the northbridge HS seems to be on there with some retention pins of some sort. Just wondering if anyone knows of some HSF's that i will be able to slap onto the Northbridge with ease.
 
If you look at THIS picture. You can see the pins that hold the NB sink on.

If you find a sink that has a broad adjustment range it should be able to fit.
 
...well, yeah. I guess that's the issue now isn't it?

I really don't need to look at pictures, i kind of own the thing (and the picture you posted is of a deluxe...FYI)
 
What's your budget? You can pick from; zalman, swiftech, thermalright

Zalman
http://www.jab-tech.com/Zalman-ZM-NBF47-pr-3587.html

Thermalright
http://www.jab-tech.com/Thermalright-HR-05-pr-3350.html

Swiftech
http://www.jab-tech.com/Swiftech-159-CU-Chipset-heatsink-for-AMD-and-Intel-motherboards-pr-3072.html

All of these heatsinks are universal and will work with both kinds of motherboards; with holes or clip.

Another option for you is reapply thermal compound and buy 40mm fan and attach it to the heatsink. Fan will be the chipest option
 
masterwoot said:
Maybe on deluxe but not on p5b non deluxe. P5b uses clips, p5b deluxe uses holes and pins.

Another thing is, the size. This is small heatsink would work as a replacement on nf4 boards but would not be a good pick for intel p965 or 975 boards.
 
help on this also i have the swiftech cooler already but that stupid long tube is connected to where the fan goes to the chipset so the swiftech fan would not fit ,helpppppppppp please...thanks..the board is bad *** except for that stupid cooling solution that don't let u install another cooler for the chip set..
 
This is what mine looks like with a fan on it. The 2 larger fans are over my stick's o ram..
 

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