[mumrah]

My NB fan on my MSI K7d Master has died. Well, is about to. It's starting and stopping, making loud noises (i can hear it over the two vantec stealth 120mm's). As i understand, i dont really need water cooling on this device (and if i did, i would wait a run it in parallel with my gpu) and i dont really want another annoying loud 40mm, or 30, or whatever it is.

Can anyone recommend an affordable passive cooling solution for my northbridge?

Thanks,
David

[wquiles]

You would have gotten a quick answer if you posted in the SMP forum, but here is your answer:

Here is my recent post on building my own dually. Towards the end of the first page I added a few images with the passive NB cooler that I am using:

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.p...8&pagenumber=1

which is the Zalman ZM-NB47J

[CGR]

Well, since your board came with a fan it probally has the mounting holes to put a chrome orb on. That would be a much prefered solution to me over using thermaltape/adhesive to put a HS on it.

Get a chrome orb if it will fit in the mounting holes assuming you have them...