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Anyone here have any experience with replacing the stock cooling solution on an MSI Neo4 Platinum board? Sometime in the near future I want to build a new system (and I like MSI), and I want to do it as silently as possible. I don't necessarily require it, but a passive solution would be nice as well. =)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813130484

If not, I'll probably have to go with a Abit AN8-ULTRA -- heatpipe based passive cooling solution -- woohoo!

Edit: Whoop, wrong link (now corrected):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813127212

Miles Teg

Zalman sells a beefy heatsink specifically for chipsets (as do others). No fan needed directly but you'll want proper airflow over it.

Check Silent PC Review for quiet goodness.

phongn wrote:Zalman sells a beefy heatsink specifically for chipsets (as do others). No fan needed directly but you'll want proper airflow over it.

Check Silent PC Review for quiet goodness.

Yeah, I know about the Zalman, but the problem is with the layout of the MSI board. It appears that any heatsink put on would get in the way of a PCIe card. I was hoping for some info on anyone who had tried something.

Miles Teg

I'd suggest leaving MSI NF4 boards out of your plans, compared to any other NF4 board they suck, not from a preformance view but from layout, with a large graphics card nearly hitting a transistor and the current boards(without BIOS revisions) not liking 90nm.

I have a similar MSI board, and FYI, the sound quality on the onboard sound sucks; my old Turtle Beach Santa Cruz can pump out better sound.