Passive Northbridge Heatsink
Friday 16th March, 2007 09:31 Comments: 0
That's all that I intended on buying. Perhaps with some Arctic Alumina epoxy stuff to stick it permanently onto the northbridge chip (as I've lost the last lot I had).
And I found one, the Zalman Northbridge Cooler, and I found another one, the Zalman ZM-NBF47. So I ordered both, as the latter is prettier and the former is meant to definitely support any Intel northbridge (without integrated graphics) - hopefully it'll be fine on mine, as one of the legs to hold the northbridge came off, spurring my search for a new heatsink - surprisingly the overclocked system remained rock solid without a heatsink on the northbridge chip! And then I made the mistake of looking around for other things.
I've been meaning to buy a TV card for my PC at some point so I can abandon the small TV in my lounge, and it's not the best card, but it does analogue and digital TV and works in Vista's "Media Center" and it's fairly cheap. I ordered the Hauppauge WinTV HVR1300 Kit. Which would have been okay if I'd stopped there, but then I spotted that Aria had some more of the Lian-Li PC-6070B Silent MIDI towers for sale, and I love this case a lot, and they've been pretty hard to get hold of (unless you're willing to pay around £120), so I bought one. The overclocked P4 system is in one of those Antec cases, it's allegedly quite a nice one, but it's plastic, it's warped, a couple of clips are broken, and I really don't like it. And then I decided to buy another 460W Xilence Smart Semi Fanless PSU, which I'll put into my main machine and then move the Tagan 480W PSU into the P4 machine, and give my dad his spare (and somewhat noisy) PSU back. I fiddled with the BIOS last night and turned on the clever AI stuff that makes the CPU fan run slower, and speed up when it gets hot, so pretty much the only part of the system making any noise is the PSU. So my ~£10 order ended up being roughly £300 more expensive than I originally planned.
And I found one, the Zalman Northbridge Cooler, and I found another one, the Zalman ZM-NBF47. So I ordered both, as the latter is prettier and the former is meant to definitely support any Intel northbridge (without integrated graphics) - hopefully it'll be fine on mine, as one of the legs to hold the northbridge came off, spurring my search for a new heatsink - surprisingly the overclocked system remained rock solid without a heatsink on the northbridge chip! And then I made the mistake of looking around for other things.
I've been meaning to buy a TV card for my PC at some point so I can abandon the small TV in my lounge, and it's not the best card, but it does analogue and digital TV and works in Vista's "Media Center" and it's fairly cheap. I ordered the Hauppauge WinTV HVR1300 Kit. Which would have been okay if I'd stopped there, but then I spotted that Aria had some more of the Lian-Li PC-6070B Silent MIDI towers for sale, and I love this case a lot, and they've been pretty hard to get hold of (unless you're willing to pay around £120), so I bought one. The overclocked P4 system is in one of those Antec cases, it's allegedly quite a nice one, but it's plastic, it's warped, a couple of clips are broken, and I really don't like it. And then I decided to buy another 460W Xilence Smart Semi Fanless PSU, which I'll put into my main machine and then move the Tagan 480W PSU into the P4 machine, and give my dad his spare (and somewhat noisy) PSU back. I fiddled with the BIOS last night and turned on the clever AI stuff that makes the CPU fan run slower, and speed up when it gets hot, so pretty much the only part of the system making any noise is the PSU. So my ~£10 order ended up being roughly £300 more expensive than I originally planned.