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05-08-2007 at 03:49:35 PM

Simply put I need something other than a stock heatsink.

For the last few machines I've been building I have been using Asus boards with the Titan Vanessa heatsink.

For my current machine I have a have the EVGA 122-CK-NF68-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard, which has the oddly shaped Northbridge heatsink.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Show [...] d+-+Retail

I found out during installation that the heatsink over the nortbridge is too close for the Vanessa so I'm stuck using the stock heatsink until I can find a replacement.

Compounding the matter slighly is the fact that I am using a pair of the Corsair XMS2 dominator sticks with the fan that covers them to cool the heatsink. So the heatsink would be constrained in that direction as well, though I am more willing to remove that fan if necessary.

[I will be adding another pair of to bring me up to 4GB because I found that 64-bit vista is a mega memory hog. Its up two weeks and even with a 2gb paging file I'm running out of memory on a regular basis.]

I do plan on overclocking in the future, so I want to get a heatsink that can handle it without making me nervous.

Anyone have any suggestions?

The system atm is:

Intel C2Q 6600
EVGA 680i SLI mb
EVGA Nvidia 8800 GTS 640 mb
2 GB Corsair dominator XMS (soon to be 4 GB)
Creative SB X-fi.
x2 Lite on 20x SATA DVD burners
x3 WD 500 GB drives
Enermax Galaxy 850w
CM stacker 832 black

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