Are the fans on chipsets actually necessary. My AI7 fan has gotten very
noisy after less than 10 months' use. I don't expect it to last much
longer. I'm only using a Celery 2400 chip, so the bus speed isn't maxed
out. For those who replace, what do you replace with? Do you deal use
the Abit warranty for this nuisance?
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I dont know about your particular board but with most mobo's the nb fan is
unecessary. Zalman make some nice replacement NB passive coolers.

I've had a Zalman passive NB cooler on for about a year on my AT7 without
fault. My original fan suffered a similer noisey end.

The chipset heatsink/fan on Abit motherboards is a bit of bling, something
to impress the natives. So if bling's your thing replace it. Otherwise you
can simply disconnect it. The Abit heatsink is at least as adequate as the
Zalman passive model that people are glueing on to their heatsinks.

I pulled thh2so4 wrote:

I pulled the fan, cleaned the sink, and it's been fine for 97 hours so
far. Thanks.

I noted in the BIOS the chipset temp is about 4C below the CPU temp
after about 10 min uptime.
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Father except through me." John 14:6 NIV

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