Noctua NC-U6 and Coolink Mainboard Silencer reviewed by CPU3D

[Babrbarossa]

As the Noctua is much larger with heatpipes and fins to dissipate heat faster (and is also much pricier) it performed better.

"Nowadays more and more features are crammed into the North Bridge chipset to cater for the newer multi-core processor which puts more strain on the chipset, and as we all know the more load on any chip will generate more heat,and heat is the enemy of performance.
Some high end motherboards have copper based heatpipe technology which draws heat away from both the south bridge and north bridge chipsets to the back of the system but these are usually on more expensive brands. What about motherboards with standard chipset cooling such as a stock heatsink, these are usually insufficient and you can probably feel temperatures of over 50°C on them. Those that are assisted by fans generate more noise which you really can do without.
I guess the solution is to look for replacement chipset cooler that does the job and does it quietly. Two contenders for this months cooling review on chipset cooling are Noctua NC-U6 and Coolink Mainboard Silencer, lets find out more about them... "

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[ScytheNoire]

I've been really impressed with the Noctua products, hence I order the NH-U9F and a few of their 120mm fans, but they need to make an SLI version for motherboards like mine where you can't install this type of cooler.

I have an Asus A8N-E, and like all these boards, the chipset fan dies on them. So I looked for a replacement, but there's only one on the market that would work and allow me to use a video card, and that's the Thermalright HR-05-SLI, any other would block the video card (especially one as big as an 8800GTX).

Of course, this is just bad motherboard design by Asus/nVidia. With all they are packing into boards these days, they need to start making some extended boards that allow more room for those bigger cases and not cramp up things so much. It's annoying when parts start clashing.

[Babrbarossa]

I hear the HR-05 is pretty good though- did you end up getting one?

[ScytheNoire]

Originally Posted by Babrbarossa

I hear the HR-05 is pretty good though- did you end up getting one?

I ordered one, yes, so hopefully it will ship by tomorrow.
DirectCanada has been a bit slower with processing a shipment than I'm used to. Been slowest of any site so far, and I've done big orders like I have this time before with other sites.

But yes, I have a bunch of new stuff coming for myself. Silverstone TJ09, few Noctua fans, Noctua NH-U9F, EVGA 8800 GTX Superclocked, and the Thermalright HR-05-SLI. Can't wait to do some benchmarking. Already got it done with my old system, and then I'll pop in the 8800GTX and see what I get. Then I'll upgrade to Vista and see how the numbers are. Then I'll be overclocking my CPU to 2.7GHz (currently Athlon64x2 2.2GHz with 2GB OCZ Platinum DDR400 on an Asus A8N-E) and see what the numbers say.

Will be sure to post an entire write-up on the various stages with the benchmarks, and see how much of a difference a graphic generation makes, how much of a negative impact Vista has, and how much max OCing your CPU has on gaming.

[Babrbarossa]

Sounds great! If you're not happy with that 8800gtx just send it along to me! ;-)