I've noticed that the little chipset fan assembly on the A8N-SLI motherboard is pretty crappy and i was looking into upgrading it to something more effective. Do any of you know of any aftermarket chipset coolers that will not get in the way of the first PCI-Express Video card? lemme try and wedge my camera into the case close enough to shoot a macro shot of the distance between the cooler and my 7800gt and its Arctic-Cooling NV Silencer.... Brb.
edit:
Man.... the fit would be extremely tight. The only thing i could think of tht would work is a heat pipe design like on the Platinum or 32-SLI versions of the A8N Motherboard or perhaps a short microfin heatsink with angled fan blowing across it.
Edit again:
I just looked at the heatpipe design on the A8N32-SLI board and noticed how much differently the board is setup, allowing a pretty tall cooler to sit on the chipset, as well as the heatpipe setup.
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