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Windsor
10-12-2002, 05:41 PM
I've been hearing all sorts of weird noises from my computer, and I think I've pretty much decided its the chipset fan, looks like it might be dying, how do I switch it?
ribitch
10-12-2002, 06:12 PM
buy some artic silver thermal paste (paste, not compund), carefully remove the older cooler, clean up the chipset top and paste new cooler to the chipset accroding to the thermal plaste application instructions
Windsor
10-12-2002, 07:02 PM
Originally posted by ribitch
buy some artic silver thermal paste (paste, not compund), carefully remove the older cooler, clean up the chipset top and paste new cooler to the chipset accroding to the thermal plaste application instructions

Any good suggestions for a chipset cooler? A quiet one, if possible? Any are all coolers the same size?
Windsor
10-12-2002, 11:01 PM
Do I really need a fan on it, or can I just buy a heatsink to cool the Northbridge(which I'm assuming that fan is cooling right now)?
I'm think about getting a Zalman Aluminum heatsink, ZM-NB32J.
irwin
10-12-2002, 11:55 PM
I'd go the heatsink route. Those tiny motherboard fans are so noisy. :angry:
sho.gun
10-14-2002, 11:13 AM
check this thread, you answer is there: http://www.gotapex.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51638
Windsor
10-16-2002, 08:17 PM
This should be last question about this, will a heatsink only do the job so I don't fry my mobo?