I love ABIT, but every time... every time!
I love ABIT, I always buy ABIT for my computers, but every single motherboard I have got off them has had one annoying flaw. The god damb North Bridge fan!
My KT7, my KR7A, and now... yep you guessed it, my NF7-S. The fan only after a couple of months, has started to constantly grown and wirr. It is so annoying, why can't ABIT just design a good fan?
I'm going to have to get another cooler for the northbridge, I mean, I was planning to, but that's not the point. I'm gonna get a couple of Zalmans heatsinks, one for the Northbridge, and one for the Southbridge, just for the hell of it.
But the point is... I shouldn't have to. ABIT, I love ya, but you ain't go a clue about designing fans.
My KT7, my KR7A, and now... yep you guessed it, my NF7-S. The fan only after a couple of months, has started to constantly grown and wirr. It is so annoying, why can't ABIT just design a good fan?
I'm going to have to get another cooler for the northbridge, I mean, I was planning to, but that's not the point. I'm gonna get a couple of Zalmans heatsinks, one for the Northbridge, and one for the Southbridge, just for the hell of it.
But the point is... I shouldn't have to. ABIT, I love ya, but you ain't go a clue about designing fans.
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Either a curse or a conspiracy/
I dunno... why can't you just upgrade the fan to something halfway decent?
Besides, ABIT is not responsible for the fans. They use an OEM to make the fan and the heatsink... and the fans are cheap, generic, single-ball or ball/sleeve bearing fans, they're small, and they're high-rpm. They're going to be prone to failure. This is not limited to ABIT boards, you know.
But since stock northbridge cooling is generally awfully crappy anyhow, why do you use it? Just upgrade the damn thing and be done with it.
They aren't? You mean, someone forced Abit by gunpoint to use an inferior OEM to supply them northbridge fans? (just razzing you , nothing personal)
I wouldn't know about other boards with northbridge fan problems - I've been using Abit, with the exception of one Iwill, since 1999 when I first got into home built computers.
Spinner, another solution is just forego the NB fan completely. Get a large, cheap generic heatsink for like a Pound (sterling, not weight!), and you won't even need a fan, assuming your case has decent ventilation. I don't run any chipset fans in my two home systems, both of which have overclocked CPUs and video cards. I don't run fans on my video cards' GPUs either.
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Like I said, I have been and I am planning to upgrade the cooler, but the point is, I shouldn't have to
Also, this was intended as a light hearted thread Geeky', you don't have to take things so personally. I was just sharing my annoyance with you all, lose the attitude dude!:shakehead
Well, yea, I mean I've had my eye on those fanless Zalman heatsinks for the north bridge for quite some time now, however the problem isn't so much that, it's the fact that there isn't hardly any room for anything but the stock HS/F, simply because my CPU cooler (Zalman Zalman CNPS7000A) over shadows the north bridge completely. I expect that I'll need to file down even the small Zalman NB HS, before I can get it to fit. But yeah, no fan is the plan, just a bit annoyed that I'm being forced to find an alternative, because of the fan screaming at me, rather than being able to change it over in my own time.
Cheers
Not at all, but I know what you mean about those ASUS boards. I got one a about 6 weeks ago and even though it is nForce 2 and all that, it really has some issues. I had lot a trouble at first getting it to post, I still have trouble getting into the BIOS setup without having to reset the CMOS. So, I share your frustration with that particular motherboard, but one thing that board does have going for it, is the fanless north bridge heatsink. Talk about a mixed up world.:)
No, I mean really inexpensive, like this . I'm sure you've got a couple online surplus vendors in the UK. Do a search. $1.25 for superb, dead quiet cooling.
Pull it off the heat sink
Remove the sticker on the back
If there is a rubber stopper remove that too
Drip some WD40 in the hole and spin the blades around
Clean the excess out with a sock
Put a drop of door hinge oil in the hole
Again spin the blades around
Replace the rubber stopper
Clean off the surface and re-stick the sticker
Enjoy your quiet fan. This also works for seized up fans. Good luck!
is that a sock I'm wearing it or can it be a clean sock? LOL
Cool, he he. Well, I've never been a big fan of WD40, but next time I've got a cranky fan, I'll give it ago. However, I did today go out and pick up a new heatsink for the northbridge, one without a fan, the Zalman one. I failed to find a cheaper one than that in the UK, at least one within driving distance of Manchester. I had to cut off some of the heatsinks pylons to get it to fit next to my CPU cooler, as I expected, but now I have a nice and quiet north bridge. If only ABIT could have done what I had done in the first place. Could have saved me a lot of hassle. Nevertheless.:D JD
So if the fan goes pearshaped, Abit isn't responsible?
That's like saying Mercedes isn't responsible if the rear window falls of on a brand new car because it's made by another company.
Did that make any sense, or did I just make it worse? I think I just made it more confusing
I understand what you are saying mate, but that doesn't make ABIT any less responsible for fan failures, simply because they chose to use such crappy fans, when they could have used better ones. Nevertheless, for everything else motherboard wise, ABIT rocks like a death metal band on speed, so I'll forgive them for this one little oversight.
Amen!
Keep in mind, WD40 is a cleaner, not an actual lubricant.
Yeah, but the WD would clean the stuff out.
Although afterwards you should still get some lube to put in there.
I've performed this procedure countless times on my GeForce 3 Ti500's stock fan (except with light machine oil) and it usually starts to seize up again after three weeks. I have to regularly add more oil, but I think this has to do with the fact that my GF3 runs so hot that the oil scorches or decomposes, so probably using motor oil will fix the problem.
I put the sticker back on after oiling. The original sticker gave out, but a piece of aluminum tape cut to a circle now suffices.
My problem with replacing GPU coolers is that they're all too tall. I need all the PCI I can get, so the whole replacement HSF has to be <25mm tall so as not to obstruct the adjacent slot.
-drasnor
Oh... so that means I can't repeat myself now and tout the efficacy of oversized passive heatsinks for GPUs and northbridges.
Have you measured mainboard temps with active compared to passive cooling on those chips? If the mainboard temps is 5c higher because of that, so will the cpu temps be. At least. I shaved 6-7c off my board temps by installing waterblocks on those chips instead of stock.
Also, if anyone is interested in lowering the idletemps a lot, use WPRSET and change register 6F from 0F to 1F
I don't think the passive sinks method would very well in a poorly ventilated case. The configuration of the case needs to be such that fresh air is available to the heatsinks, as their are no heatsink fans to pull in cool air and force down into the sinks. I think also, that sinks with densely packed veins would not work well. I think the heated air from the veins would tend to be trapped inside the veins' air pocket.