I recently bought an A64 X2 4200 system with 2GB OCZ Platinum EL DDR400 (2-3-2-5) on a DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D mobo...
...and I recently noticed that, after some time of operation, the chipset cooler can become slightly more noisy than at start (say, >4000rpm). I wanted a more silent system, so I looked into this high speed, and I got a 44C temperature for my chipset.
My mobo monitor (it's only nvidia's monitorview) is telling me this is too much and there's something wrong. CPU voltage is at 1.45V, and core (which I presume to be chipset) voltage is at 1.53V.
What should I do?... should I worry? How could I potentially reduce heat and noise? Apparently, the chipset cooler is the loudest one (the CPU cooler is perfect - it keeps the CPU cool all the time)...
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Mephistopheles on 10/18/05 07:49 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
Try Zalman NBJ-47 and clip some of its fins off the side so it doesn't interfer with the first PCIe 16x. You can then put a 40mm on the side of the heatsink.
Much like EPoX's new cooling solution for their P4s.
Get an Evercool VC-RE cooler. The fan is pretty close to silent 90% of the time depending on how you have the temp controller set in BIOS, pushes more air, all copper heatsink, no modding required and will drop temps considerably.
Change the hsf on the chipset to make it quieter, but dont sweat about the temp. If the sensor is any where near correct, you still have 16c of play, before it gets flakey.
You could probably kill the fan, and still have no problems.
lol.. the DFI boardfs are known for their bad chipset placement (minus the new crossfire ones that is) that suck down hot air from ur graphics card... you could 1) get a better cooler that fits (its hard because its under ur video card) or 2) like many DFI owners remove the cooler, clean off the orginial TIM (thermal interface material) and reaplly with Artic sliver 5.... there are reports of a 5 C drop after reapply... o and some also say that the surface of the cooler was not smooth and they grinded it smooth and it helped them more
