Cooling system chip

[trenton]

Hello,

I have a problem with my system chip getting to hot, but no space to implement a solution.

Please help.

System.

KFN5-D sli Mobo

2 x AMD Opteron 2210 1.8Ghz Dual Core clocked 2.4Ghz

2 x 1gig Corsair ECC Reg PC-5200 667

2 x Thermaltake Golden Orbs

EVGA 8800GTS

Flexiglow 500w PS

350mm Desk fan pointing into my open case.

The 2 CPU's range in temps from 35° to 49° under load, clocked or not. The 8800 goes from 51° to about 65°, but it sits right on top of the system chip that get to a toasty 70° before going belly up.
The only way for me to get a stable system so far, even at stock speeds is to blast some air into the case with the desk fan.
This is my second board, the first got it's system chip fried. It is a known issue and the solution is to put a fan on the chip. In fact the boot up screen shows a pic of the board with a fan on that chip. But the fan is not installed.
There is space for about 3 ball hairs between the 8800 and the system chip. Can't cool anything with 3 ball hairs.

Any solution that comes to mind would be appreciated.
(Heatpipes maybe, but where to get custom heatpipes in RSA?)
I'm in Harties.

Regards

Trenton.

 

[tristin]

hey, if the desk fan works....

what do you mean that you have no space to implement a cooling system?

 

[AzAzEl656]

The GFX card is right over the chip. Do you have a heatsink on it? If yes, than the best thing to do is get some Arctic Silver 5 or any other quality TIM and leave the desk fan on. Or, you could always get a Vantec Fan Card. It fits into a pci slot and will probably blow a nice amount of air over the heatsink. I had the same problem.

 

[trenton]

tristan: Funny, Fan is loud and cools a bit more than the pc.

az:Heatsink is there, will try Arctic Silver 5. No more PCI slots available.
I got some 10mm thick copper solid from work, about 200mm x 150mm. I going to try and mill a heatsink from that and use the cpu cooler from an old thinkpad. If I remember corectly it has a heat spreader with passive and active cooling on it.
Seems a bit drastic for a system chip.

 

[dotVIBE]

Dude, what you need is one of these : http://www.koolance.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=29_66&products_id=393

Not sure where you'd find one though.

 

[dotVIBE]

Also check northbridge coolers from:

http://www.jetart.com/style/content...ang=2&customer_id=1153&name_id=17678&rid=3194

http://www.jetart.com/style/content...ang=2&customer_id=1153&name_id=17678&rid=3130

http://www.coolermaster.com/products/product.php?act=morecategory&finalflag=Y&tbcate=1&cateid=000014

Maybe one of those will fit too.

 

[trenton]

Thanks man, that first one I swear is made for my board.
Pity I need water. Second option also has solutions. Will have a look.