hello everybody, i have a question here, im owner of a gigabyte ep45-ud3p..about the ultra durable silent pipe heat sink i was though of replacing it with an after market north bridge heat sink cooler which had a tiny little fan attached on it cooling it..i dont know is it a good choice? or shall i stick back to the manufacturer silent pipe heat sink? anyone could PLEASE "opinion"...

This post has been edited by djandrew: Feb 16 2010, 03:47 AM

There are some problems that might arise with your plan..

1st, are your sure it is beneficial to take out the heatpipe and replace it with another heatsink with fan? Why don't you just salvage some 80mm or 120mm fans and put it on top of the heatsink to help with the heat dissipation..

Secondly, voiding your warranty is it worth to throw out the window of the 2-3 years warranty??

hmm..but i find it no room to place a 80mm or 120mm fan antonio..and 1 more thing that i had done,im not sure it void the warranty or not but i had took out the heat sink and replace the thermal paste in it with after market thermal paste instead the manufacturer 1..coz i found it very dry n harden like a rock..and my system temperature at ET6 reading about 43c at idle is it normal? compare to 1st day i bought my board heat seems like increased quite alot..maybe the overclock effect perhaps im not sure...

This post has been edited by djandrew: Feb 16 2010, 12:10 PM

No worry about voiding the warranty, as long as u keep the stock chipset cooler will do. But if u take off the stock one and replace the chipset cooler, u can have better temperature reading but the problem is u have to find a MOSFET/PWM cooler as well, cause the stock chipset cooler is link from there.

sorry for another noob question AceCombat, actually what u mean by the MOSFET/PWM cooler? i cant get the picture of it..

the part where its written ultra durable is ur mosfet/pwm cooler.....

the part where its written gigabyte is ur northbridge...

if u wanna replace ur northbridge cooler ur gonna have to remove ur mosfet cooler as well as they are linked via heatpipe which isnt removable.....so ur gonna need to find a seperate cooler for it as well..

loud and clear..thx madman...well anyway i just browsed lowyat plaza today afternoon..i must and will stay back with my gigabyte motherboard heatsink..LOL, after market northbridge cooler doesn't seems to be looking good in shape neither performance wise..tumbs down compared to the gigabyte heatpipe ...muackzss i love gigabyte

This post has been edited by djandrew: Feb 17 2010, 08:28 PM

Yes, stick back with the stock NB cooler...
Just re-paste the NB cooler will do...

stock nb cooler seems performing good enuf...but suprisingly dfi dk p45 nb is much cooler den ours

then jus mount 60mm fan on the NB i did mine to cool down it

This post has been edited by mfcm: Feb 25 2010, 11:41 PM

i wonder how u mount in mfcm?

just put the fan airflow blowing downwards towards the heatsink...kawtim

lol..i dun tink really nid a cooler lar...running 1.9g on fsb...still good...not really hot...juz a little warm

what u mean 1.9g seanlimys?

fsb 1900

ah alright..anyway i just cant hit 3.8ghz dont know why,it's not mainly on the heat problem but just easily get failed on prime small fft test at 3.8ghz..3.6ghz seems very easy with this proccessor..

lol..this motherboard is unique for me...i cant just get the setting right for 4Ghz but manage to get 4.25ghz easily..haha

what huh? 4.25ghz can easily but 4ghz not..thats kinda weird lol..how u do that

i duno..haha...even got expert cannot explain it... too bad

aiya... best solution is sell me your ep45-ud3p and get a i5 system... no northbridge to cool down... no need heatsink

LOLOOLOLOL !