New Cooler Master northbridge cooler [mini-heatpipe tower]

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:42 pm

Cooler Master has a new northbridge cooler, the CM Blue Ice

http://www.coolermaster.com/product_com ... 813630.jpg
http://www.coolermaster.com/product_com ... 044361.jpg
http://www.coolermaster.com/product_com ... 8e1e31.jpg
http://www.coolermaster.com/product_com ... cca4b3.jpg
http://www.coolermaster.com/product_com ... d44ccc.jpg

So, what do y'all think?

(too bad for that 40mm fan)

hightower · Post by **hightower** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:58 pm

Looking good. I doubt it actually needs that fan. However, right now I think heatpipes are starting to look like the future.

Caudipteryx zoui · Post by **Caudipteryx zoui** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 9:32 pm

This is the first new NB cooler I've seen in a long while. This should help people who aren't even satisfied with the performance of the NB-1C, assuming they can fit in with their cpu cooler. The tests will tell.

gesundheit · Post by **gesundheit** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 11:45 pm

That fan is somehow embedded right in the center of those fins? Can't even take it off to try it passively, pity...

anaqer · Post by **anaqer** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 2:09 am

Oh, but you can. The top plastic cover is held by screws and can be removed, granting access to the fan inside.

gesundheit · Post by **gesundheit** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 2:22 am

Well that's good news. Sure will have to take a good look at your mobo and PCI card arrangement to see if that 60 x 47 x 69mm part will fit - people can barely fit their NB47J's (37 x 37 x 47) in there on some boards.

Mariner · Post by **Mariner** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 3:09 am

If you want to try it passively, surely all you need to do is just not bother plugging the fan header in?

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:47 am

gesundheit wrote:Well that's good news. Sure will have to take a good look at your mobo and PCI card arrangement to see if that 60 x 47 x 69mm part will fit - people can barely fit their NB47J's (37 x 37 x 47) in there on some boards.

Yeah, but it should run with no problems on non-SLI boards though!

Thunder · Post by **Thunder** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 10:34 am

they say "Universal application for all platforms" but since my board has no NB mounting holes, and I'd be sceptical mounting that with thermal glue looks like it wont work for me

anaqer · Post by **anaqer** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 12:36 am

Thunder wrote:...my board has no NB mounting holes...

And no mounting hooks/clamps either...?

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:09 am

I guess this would beat the crap out of a Zalman NB47

Thunder · Post by **Thunder** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:18 am

no way I can fit that sucker next to my graphics card though , which is to bad becuse I want one

ronrem · Post by **ronrem** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:47 am

However a real sweet solution for those who are thinking of a super quiet rig and are not gamers with extreme vid card issues,who can pick a mobo with room around the chipset-and also can build a case in a desktop layout so the weight of a big passive on the CPU,on the chipset is less crucial,and so a couple of very low rpm 120's can handle the airflow to cool a venice.

KorruptioN · Post by **KorruptioN** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:55 am

Most nF4 users have enough problems getting the Zalman NB47J to fit. This does look good, but clearance problems...

teknerd · Post by **teknerd** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:50 am

This cooler doesnt seem like a very good design because of clearance issues. On an nforce system it would most certainly interfere with the graphics card, unless it was very small and on an intel system it will likely interfere with the cpu cooler (assuming you are using an after market one).

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:50 am

KorruptioN wrote:Most nF4 users have enough problems getting the Zalman NB47J to fit. This does look good, but clearance problems...

You mean most nF4 SLI users right?

nici · Post by **nici** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:06 am

No he means nF4 users in general, there is only a few nF4 boards with the chipset in a smart place. Most boards have s-t-u-p-i-d chipset placement.

The stupid placement of the chipset on most nF4 boards almost made me go Intel..

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:17 am

nici wrote:The stupid placement of the chipset on most nF4 boards almost made me go Intel..

Surely you are exaggerating.

The only ones which truly aren't fit to the job are the Gigabyte, MSI and Foxconn. The rest are clear or with the chipset on the right side of the slot. How will that interfere?

Interitus · Post by **Interitus** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:34 am

rpsgc wrote:
nici wrote:The stupid placement of the chipset on most nF4 boards almost made me go Intel..
Surely you are exaggerating.

The only ones which truly aren't fit to the job are the Gigabyte, MSI and Foxconn. The rest are clear or with the chipset on the right side of the slot. How will that interfere?

Most NF4 boards (even non-SLI) have the chipset just past and underneath the PCI-E slot. Not good for almost all passive VGA coolers and any long cards (even the vanilla 6800) will have clearance issues with even a VF700 from Zalman. It's damn tight in there for most of the boards even with carefully thought out components and the smaller NB47 and NB32 from Zalman.

See my gallery here to get what I'm saying. Yeah it's a big VGA cooler, but I use a short card and an NB47J on the A8N-SLI and it's one of the best located chipsets. DFI has a horribly located chipset, and at the time of my build the only other 2 options I had was the Chaintech or MSI. I think both of those have almost the exact layout as the A8N-SLI for the chipset gap from the PCI-E slot.

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=20057

zoob · Post by **zoob** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:44 am

Resurrecting old thread, but I found a picture with this sink on the DFI nF4.

View it here

I might have to pick one of these up... hehe.

Mar. · Post by **Mar.** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:46 pm

Looks like overkill to me. Yes, the NF4 gets hot, but come on!

widman · Post by **widman** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:57 am

I want to change NF3 hsf to passively cooled hs, but no way it can be changed. The stupid design of hsf will knock vga card. Damn stupid...

ronrem · Post by **ronrem** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:28 pm

Only a few MOBO makers have taken note of the silent folk. US,that is. There are 30+ sites doing reviews based on how does it OC to play Doom III all night. Well the only game I ever play is chess and it needs no fancy hardware-but music,audio restoration,graphics are my big thing and quiet matters.

The SMART end has to be the end user who puts down his money. I'm hot for an ECS-KN-1 Extreme as it has a dedicated PCI for a high end soundcard,can run a zillion SATA's,ain't expensive. It happens to have a chipset HS that's probably adequate with the fan removed-but has plenty off room for this coolermaster unit.

I sent an email to Coolermaster noting that a version minus the fan would instantly appeal to the growing market for low-ruckus puters. Got a reply that the idea was being sent to product development.. Basically.a no-fan version simply means they leave the fan out-we save 10 minutes and $5.

Real Max silence works best if you start fresh with silence a priority. If plan a was to overclock a Prescott till it glows-shifting to plan b,ultra quiet will be real difficult.

ronrem · Post by **ronrem** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:44 pm

As for the crowded NF3 chipset-you remove the little noisemaker fan. You make a bracket,mod a shelf bracket-or use the zalman maybe to locate an 80mm where it cools that chipset. Take the time to think out the problem-then hit the hardware store.

merovingian · Post by **merovingian** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:43 pm

Any MSI-SLI plat user will tell you that it wont fit while the board is in SLI.

Vulcan · Post by **Vulcan** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:53 pm

Why couldn't they have designed this a little more inteligently so that it would atleast have a chancle of working on an SLI board?

ArcticOC · Post by **ArcticOC** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:00 pm

Nah.. to small I say

This is a REAL Heatpipe Chipset Cooler: http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=23961

Picture: http://forum.hardware.no/index.php?act= ... id=4516295

ronrem · Post by **ronrem** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:56 am

Vulcan wrote:Why couldn't they have designed this a little more inteligently so that it would atleast have a chancle of working on an SLI board?

perhaps the question should
be-why didn't they design the Mobos better,to put the chipset where there's room,as with some Ultras-or follow ASUS and ABIT and have a heatpipe passive.. Not being a gamer myself,I really don't get the need for SLI,seems Vid cards have evolved enough that 1 high end card should do the job-but that's the way it goes.

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:45 am

Here's a review. It doesn't look that great.

dfrost · Post by **dfrost** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:09 am

Here's another review that shows pretty good results compared to a typical stock passive heatsink.