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As some of you may know, my desktop was built about 6 years ago now. It has an Abit KN8 motherboard, which is based on Nvidia's nForce4 standard single-chip solution. The stock NB cooler dead about 1 year after the computer was built. I replaced it with a Pccooler NB cooler(the same model as the one in the attachment). The fan(a 4010 fan) on the Pccooler cooler died again a couple of months ago. The weather was cool at that time so the computer ran stability. As the weather's getting hotter and hotter now, my desktop hangs and gives me BSOD randomly. Everest suggested that the NB temerature went as much as 62C. The heatsink of the NB cooler was too hot to touch after the computer had been running for even a few minutes. I mounted a 7010 fan(disassembled from an AMD stock cooler) on the side panel of the case and set the Thermaltake 12025 case fan at full speed so the hot air can be taken out of the case more efficiently. My desktop now sounds like a jet, but it runs fine.

Typical nVidia chipset
The nVidia chipset in the HP computer in the dining room has this tiny passive heatsink on it...even after being on for like 10 mins it's ridiculous.
HP+nVidia=fail

No wonder why they're out of chipset business. :-S

It's ridiculous!

I need to find another 4010 fan. :S

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At least the NF4 chipset doesn't have the manufacturing defect

Yup. Otherwise it would have been dead for a long while now.

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Well I'm not going to buy a 4010 fan now. I managed to mount a 7cm frameless fan onto the frame of my dead 4010 fan and then I mounted them on the Pccooler heatsink. No more need for a 4010 fan now.

but I'm going to buy this one, thus I can turn my 17CRT into a TV set:

http://www.360buy.com/product/301125.html