Minor complaint about Asus A8N-E

[hashv2f16]

I must start on saying this is a very good board so far, but the truckin' tiny chipset fan drives me insane. Now Asus Probe clocks it doing over 5kRPM. I have noticed that this (tiny fan on top of a skimpy piece of metal shaped to look like a tiny heatsink from the outside) generates, I guess what would be a quarter to a third of the total noise output when the CNPS9500 is in silent mode. I'm not a big fan of noise, so I was originally considering ZM-NB47J (http://www.zalman.co.kr/), which would go matching with my current color scheme ( :lol: ).
I would like to know are there any better silent chipset coolers available out there (no I don't have water cooling).

 

[hashv2f16]

sounds good, then i think I'll just put on the zalman cooler with an 80mm on the side panel that can blow in air

 

[oldhand]

I have Asus A8N5X which is almost same ur mobo except nf4 chipset. I purchased it almost a month ago. The temp of mobo is always 36oC in idle and 38-40oC with some load. Also the system is not stable with FSB >250MHz. Last week I added 2 SATAII Seagate 7200.9 80GB as RAID0 and noticed increasing in mobo temp to 38-40oC in idle.

Since that, I deciced to add one 8cm fan that blows air around the NB chipset. The solution is pretty easy with custom-made 8cm fan mount which is attached to empty slot in case then is adjustedto the desire position of NB chipset.
After that, the temp of mobo is drastically reduced to 32oC in idle and 36oC in full load.
Totally happy with that.

 

[hashv2f16]

at the moment the mobo is always 1 degree warmer than the CPU. the highest i've seen it go is 36 degrees. after your cooling mod was it stable above 250MHz?

 

[oldhand]

Yes, it is stable with FSB above 250MHz.
I just ordered G.Skill 2GB DDR500. I will try OC my system at this weekend. My target is to reach 2750Mhz with 3800 x2 CPU and 275MHz with new ram. I will post my result after that.