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great heat sink.Jan 20, 2011
By Jason P. Chester
"JPC"
Works better than my Zalman ZN-NBF47 heat sink did. Even though, that was a pretty dam good heat sink too. I had to lap the heat sink though. It did come with a surface scratch on the base. Worked a lot better after I lapped the heat sink. The fins on it are very easy to bend when installing the heat sink. You have to be extremely careful and hold it by the base only. If you bend the fins, as I recently learnt, that will affect its heat conduction abilities. I straightened the fins out with a credit card and a flat tipped screw driver. It is low profile so it should fit in any case. It fitted nicely in my micro-btx case without any problems. I actually have 2.5 inches or so to spare, so I could put a fan on top if I need. You do not need the fan, but a fan sure does help. Some say this heat sink is over kill, but it did solve my computer freezing and stalling which were due to heat. Problems the Zalman ZN-NBF47 did not. The north bridge chip set can get very, very hot so this heat sink will help a lot. The heat sink can become loose it not installed very snugly. I had to play around with the clip (paper clip looking thing that goes on the u shaped anchors on the mother board), I adjusted it a lot, until I got it to fit snugly. Anyways, it is very snug now. I do though, suggest using the screws if you have that option on your mother board as it will hold much snugger.
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