well u dont need a heatpipe to make the board perform well.. nor a big ass heat sink.. use simple heat sinks.. liek the 680i boards... ,linking southbridege to the nb is ok , but linking to teh mofsets is just not necessary.. if u use the mobo in a case tehn all rhe heat load is dumped to the mofset heatsinks as in most cases tehy are the in teh highest part of teh heatsink "loop" in teh other direction ur jusr giving all teh load to the sb.. implementations of heatsinks liek teh 680i heatsink, where there is already a sensizbly sized heatsink with fins on teh nb and a lone heat pipe from the sb works good.. and having loads of heatpipes just make gives more compatibility issues and nto to mention drive the costs up high.

well from my experience.. the best fan to couple with the hr-05 or ifx has ben the amd stock fan.. it offers decent cfm,. and silence....... bet of all its low profiile.. so it doesnt trake up that much of space....

u bulking this baby? i need one


and the round one also..

replace my trusty old tr hr-05

move it to cool my gfx:)

hehe yeah maybe... if only they make pwm coolers..