Northbridge Cooler for GigaByte 8KNXP ???

I've noticed that the North Bridge cooler of my new 8KNXP makes a lot of noise Is there a good, preferably passive, cooler that I can replace the stock one with?

Mike

I have no ideas, does the iceberg cooler fit? How do you like the board. My father-in -law wants to put a kick @$$ sys together and wants me to help him pick everything out. He is determined to get this board and I want to know how it is going for you.

Have not yet measured the size of cooler needed, wanted some suggestions first.

The 8KNXP is a nice feature rich board and stable from my 4-5 days of use. For overclocking though I have only so far been successfull in single channel mode (2,4C @ 3.2 not pushing it just a trial), but in dual channel windows give me blue screens related to memory and crashes on bootup. I'm not sure if my HyperX is defective or if I have to play with the bios a bit more to get the right settings for stability, I have just not had the time yet. Also my problems may be my windows install, I have not reinstalled from a fresh start for about a year.

Mike

Check out this Zalman kit. Some guys are using them as replacement heatsinks for the Abit IC-7 and getting good results.



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