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Comment: Why NB and Memory Mosfets, and what were your specs? And the date of your post. I do thank you for the pics.

Comment: For the reasons you have said yourself, I recommend that you avoid P5N-D. Yes, the northbridge fan is only supposed to be used if you do not use a CPU fan (so that airflows do not cancel each other), but that northbridge heatsink gets VERY hot, and there are no northbridge waterblocks for this motherboard.

Comment: I just got a refurb P5N-D to replace my failed P5N-SLI. On my SLI board, my chip (via CoreTemp) was giving temp readings of 80 recently to 95 last summer. In any case, about a month ago, it failed completely. Due to my CPU chip (E6600) not being compatible with the SLI board from the first revision, my lack of access to a lesser chip, as well as the possibility that I might want to upgrade to a Q-series chip or a E8300 or something of that nature, I decided to go with a P5N-D board this go-around (about the only other sock 775 board that has a PATA port). In any case, the northbridge heatsink fan that came with the computer has a "warning" that says that it should only be used in conjunction with water cooling or passive cooling, and should not be used when you have a fan attached to the main processor, or at least that was my interpretation. Therefore, this seems quite useless to me, as the main point is to keep the CPU cool. Also, it asks me to connect it to the case 1 fan port on the motherboard, which is already occupied by a fan that's going to the outside of the case (I'd think that'd be a really bad one to disconnect). As it sounds like a royal pain to replace the stock heatsinc with another cooling method and I'm a novice to toying with my motherboard (I've mostly just exchanged harddrives and RAM before), do you have any guidance to offer that's a) not complicated and b) cheap to do. Almost forgot to mention: I used CoreTemp last night again, and it was still saying that I was running 85 degrees after only about 20 minutes of usage. I'm running BOINC processes, so my processors are pegged at 100%, but still that seems extreme.... Then again, I don't know if Windows (XP) is properly reading this motherboard, as I didn't do a repair install of windows but just swapped the boards and deleted my infcache file to give me access to my keyboard and mouse. I installed a few driver, etc, files from Asus last night prior to running coretemp, but I'm not sure if I did a reboot. When I touched my processor heatsinc and northbridge heatsinc, they seemed warm for sure, but at max 40 C. Does this mean that CoreTemp is being inaccurate for the change of motherboard or did I do something wrong with my application of Arctic Silver5 (I used a razor blade to spread it in as thin a layer as I could see it coating everywhere after doing a pre-treatment and wipe-off).

Comment: Not as far as I know. I used a fan speed controller, and I set the stock fan to low speed when doing casual computing, and raise the speed if I would do gaming (I don't game anymore).

Comment: Is there any update on how to cool the Northbridge on the P5N-D quietly? Looking to reduce noise in my case and the stock fan is loud.

Comment: Just a little poking around cause I have liquid cooling as well. My Temp just hit 40 which is Record for my machine. I have a Q9505, no over clocking. I found this: http://www.frozencpu.com/products/7284/ex-blc-461/EK_780i_EVGA_Northbridge_Chipset_Liquid_Cooling_Block_-_Acetal_EK-NB_780i_Acetal.html Looks good to me. Ive already ordered it. If you want, I'll keep you posted on how well it works.

Comment: Hello I am using liquid cooling for the video card and CPU. Couldn't find a waterblock for the NB, so that is one of the few things that's cooled by a fan in my rig.

Comment: I'm asking about the webpage/review of the P5N-D Asus motherboard and it's NB heatsink. You made a comment that a simple PCI slot fan is fine to cool it. But wouldn't the Video card get in the way of the air flow of the fan? I'm having heat issues with mine so looking for a cooling solution. (I threw out the fan when I first got this MB, two years ago, thinking it was a CPU fan.)