Chipset Fan Joy!

admin · Rich Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Teesside

It's been making a bit of a nosie for a while but it seems to go through some quieter patches, but since 20th Dec its been making a racket, and today on boot up i watched it take 15mins for it to get faster than a 3 second revolution, and when it got going it was noisy as. It's running at a desent speed and asus probe tells me its going fast enough but noise is doing me head in!

SO i've ordered:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/cgi...l%23aHS_2d026_2dAK#aHS_2d026_2dAK

Akasa AK-210 Blue LED Chipset Cooler (HS-026-AK)
AK-210 Cool Blue chipset cooler. Keep your chipset cool in style. The lo-noise fan has 3 Hi-bright blue LED's and sits on a blue heatsink. The cooler is easily installed using the thermally conductive adhesive transfer tape.

- Lo-noise Chipset cooler (20dBA)
- 3 Hi-bright blue LED fan on Blue heatsink
- Lo-profile, only 24mm high
- Thermal conductive adhesive transfer tap (DG765) pre-applied
- Tool free and easy installation

Full Specification

Price: £4.95 (£5.82 Including VAT at 17.5%)

Annoying part is when you get to shoppng basket it suddently goes to £11.99 ouchie!!! p+p at its worse! £5.99 delivery for a 4cm by 4cm gadget! shocking!

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admin · Rich Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Teesside

Well I thought this was gonna be the easiest hardware change ever!

problem 1 - old chipset fan was harpooned kinda through mobo. So I had to take pc apart to get mobo out then have fun with pliers snapping the pastic hooks off so I could take old fan off. Then the joy of putting pc back together.

problem 2 - New chipset fan only sticks on by its adhesive backing. Fairdo's can't see a problem there, until I looked on chip, its slight raised in middle, so the 4cm by 4cm area is now reduced to 1cm by 1cm area to stick to, its also not very sticky!!

problem 3 - it keeps falling off!!

problem 4 - bios resets itself because mobo had been taken apart.

So now ive got pc back together, bios all sorted and fan hasn't fallen off for about 45 mins now, i'm hoping the heat from the chip will help bind itself to adhesive tape on fan heatsink.

But I know any slight knock of pc will have fan off in no time. So it looks like I have a next to impossible task to try and keep it in place by bracing it some how. But for now I'm hoping it just doesn't fall off again (but it will!! ) Sad

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admin · Rich Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Teesside

oh Upside! It's pretty and lights up blue and very quiet, it also goes at 5440 where as old ones speed was 1400 tops and barked like a dog!

Of course this is no good if it keeps falling off!
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admin · Rich Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Teesside

ive had to tape it in position, not exactly slick! Evil or Very Mad

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Midnight Tboy · Neophyte Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 35

can't believe ya too phone shy to even call Overclockers where you bought it!!!! Like I said, they'll have an alternative bracket, or the PROPER fan ya can get...get it sorted before u cause perm damage to the mobo

errrr besides......
isn't the mobo in guarantee still? should be at least 1yr warranty

admin · Rich Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Teesside

too much of a pesismist to believe they'll be of any use. Unlikely have an alternative bracket for a specific mobo they would only say refer to Akasa, then Akasa some US company in the highly unlikely event they would even reply to email would go 'that fan came out in 2004 the mobo came out Jan 2005'

OC only sold that one type of chipset fan anyway so not like they could go 'we'll exchange it for this one'. If I thought it was any use to contact them I would.

thanks for your loving concern though Smile

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admin · Rich Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Teesside

well ive submitted form on asus site asking for a new chipset fan for free (longshot) and overclockers forum have come back with using a AS5 compound stuff to stick it on, one reply also said he contacted asus who told him to use the online form and actually recieved a new fan for same problem, so who knows!!

If it all comes through, anyone wanna buy a pretty blue fan thats spins roudn dead fast and is quiet? can't stick it owt like! Smile

Be a good back up fan as long as I got tape to stick it on Smile

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admin · Rich Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Teesside

I might for this:

Zalman ZM-NB47J Northbridge Cooler

http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=158

I asked about it on overclockers forum and they said that'll do the job and people on that forum use that for their A8N SLI mobo. Also read some feedback reviews (5 pages worth from customers on some other website). So looks like a good alternative.

Shame p+p is £6 again, grr. Think I'll look around site and see what else to get to make p+p worthwhile. Tuck anything you wanna order?
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Midnight Tboy · Neophyte Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 35

why not hold off til get a reply from asus? as they said they would def get one out to you - once sorted out the email problem (aswell as them being closed at mo for NY probs Smile

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admin · Rich Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Teesside

my enthusiasm dwindled when I read a thread on Asus forum of a guy in exact same situation as me, he got same email from Maggie (word for word copy n paste jobby as he pasted it in post) He finally got 3 replies all fogging him off sending him in circles. (was some fire thing closing UK place rather than just closed for NY) but also one of his Asus replies or when he was on phone said that Anji guy is now an invalid email, yet this Maggie woman still goes email Anji.

Also according to other forums I been reading today, apparently this new chipset fan isn't all that.

I also tried that telco number today that was suggested on OC forum (guy did say that number was for notebook problems only but musta got through to someone helpful who passed him on to someone who could help. I however got some indian going 'no this is note book' so I asked could you pass me on to someone who could help with my problem, she goes 'you have reached notebook line i only help for notebook problems, please refer to websites help form' So i say 'asus.com?' she goes 'yes' ahh ok thanks bye!

This cooler though apparenlty has kept a lot of peeps happy and as it's only £3 quid it could be worth to cut all this hassle out, just the p+p is a buit hmm. Though a minority of the customers did say an addtional fan in tower pointing at it will help as they found it a few C degree's higher than using a fan. But majority were very pleased with it (i read a lot of reviews, i got time, i'm at work lol)
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Midnight Tboy · Neophyte Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 35

tskkk "fire thing"...good to hear over the last few weeks u were listening to the news etc(!)

and just call up and go to complaints dept - simple and sorted Smile

but yeah its not gonna be as good as a seperate bought fancy one, but will still be better than one it had - and neither are gonna make ya go oooooooooooh at the performance - ie its no 360 Smile

admin · Rich Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Teesside

Well there's no exact number thats why that guy rang the notebook line coz he couldn't find the correct number.

Ah I was just thinking of how hot it may get when playing games. Though everyone else on OC using A8N SLI arn't having heat problems with it.

Wonder if this worth getting too if I did go for that Zander option:

http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=735

Though pretty sure a paste comes with it. I'll have to remove old paste thats on chip from old fan, WD40 should do it according to one of the forums I read.
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Midnight Tboy · Neophyte Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 35

well could get it and if dont need it could use it to glue them cheeks a bit tighter Very Happy

admin · Rich Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Teesside

Oh I meant is it worth the chase up for that new free fan for it to just grind down to 100rpm again while screaming like a dog in a few months time.
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admin · Rich Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Teesside

Aye paste handy to have as bound to use in future, not for cheeks though!
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