Your gfx & psu fan would be a lot louder than a 40mm fan on the NB. You can always connect it to a motherboard fan header and set the RPM in BIOS fan control if it is too loud.
Definitely take off the heatsink and reapply some thermal paste as I can more or less guarantee that if it's still stock thermal paste it's hardened and your not getting good thermal conductivity with it.
This thread helped me a lot when setting the board up:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=106563
*There used to be pics of the board on the thread but they've disappeared![]()




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