Passive Cooling

[indyjones]

And so it continues.......

In the evergoing (so it feels) task of making a silent system I am considering passive heatsinks (mainly for the GFX card and northbridge) does anybody have any recommendations was thinking of a Zalman ZM80A-HP cooler for my creative gf3ti200 card. I am also considering a Digi-Doc 5 Thermal Control Unit. Does anybody have any advice on this please ???

 

[Zedric]

There are boards with passively cooled Northbridges allready, but if you don't have one...

The VGA cooler is probably pretty good. It's just very big.

For the CPU you could get one of the flower heatsinks like CNPS6000-Cu

 

[indyjones]

Had not thought about the flower style cpu heat sinks to be honest i have one of the coolermaster heatpipe silent heatsinks and thats quiter than the gfx card (2500rpm) i am not sure about that gfx passive cooler due to the fack i have ram sinks :huh: