can anyone please tell me if a Zalman fatality will fit on this asrock board?
need to do a cheap upgrade for a relative & need to know before ordering
T.I.A.

Here is the product page. See if your MB is supported. I have the fatality. The 9500/9700 Zalmans are much better.

http://www.zalman.co.kr/usa/produc [...] ame=FS-C77

the product support page was updated in 2005 & my brother in law wants red led, you cant get 9500/9700 in red led

The fatality is very large and fits less MBs overall than the 9500 series. It depends on how much room you have around the cpu socket. The fatality heatsink fan sits low and is wide and large. It does not fit a lot of MBs. In addition, the fan blows straight down on the MB instead of expelling air out the back of the case like the 9500s do. I use mine on an old MSI NF4 Platinum board. It's amazing the thing even fits on there. Cools my FX55 though.

have a look what d'you reckon?
http://www.asrock.com/mb/enlargeme [...] eDual-VSTA

I think you are in luck. Judging from that picture, I believe the fatality will fit on there. I'm using mine this morning on this computer. AMD FX-55 OC to 2.9. My current spedfan CPU temp is 41c.


Here is a quick look at mine running this morning.

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401 [...] dayqy6.jpg

only thing that concerns me is the 20 pin power socket!

You could alway slightly bent the fins to fit. Yeah, the fan is VERY large and sets really low to the socket. I think you will get it on that board without any problem.

Actually, after taking a closer look at your board and realizing that northbridge heatsink sits higher than it looks, you could run into a problem with that heatsink. It may sit too close to the socket to allow the fan to clear and seat on the cpu. Not sure really.

For example, on my board I cannot remove the RAM in the number one socket. The fan sits right on top of the RAM. I can not use my Corsiar XMX Pro RAM, the Heatspreaders are set to high. I have to use 'regular' size RAM DIMMS with the Fatality HSF. You won't have that problem, your RAM sockets are far away. Also, the capacitors on your board are not located all around the socket like a lot of boards. That Fatalty can't clear the capacitors on a lot of boards.