Motherboard Fan Question/Recommendation

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Well the little fan on my motherboard seems like its going to die because its making a lot of noise and I want to replace it. I'd like to cool it passively because i'm trying to quiet up my rig a bit and i wanted to know which of these would be better (and if the passive one would work)

My MB: http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=150

The passive cooler: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=371030

The fan'd cooler: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=370812


Thanks for the help
 
personally, i would get the zalman. i have it installed on my dfi lanparty 250 and its decreased the heatload considerably. the only disadvantage i see for you would be in regards to your cpu heatsink. the position of the processor so close to the nb fan could create complications seeing as the zalman is a pretty tall heatsink. i would suggest you get the measurments of the zalman and make sure it can clear your current cpu heatsink. g/l :D
 
Unless your stock northbridge or chipset cooler is crap, I wouldn't jump for a passively cooled heatsink again if you ever plan on modding or doing any overclocks. I changed changed the fan+hsf cooler on my i875p chipset in my Shuttle and the mobo is now shorted. I'm guessing it was due to the numerous brown-outs I had at the time. Those pikes of electricity probably just fed through the PSU and killed my mobo. PSU is still fine though.

I poped the NB-47J (the blue zalman) in to replace the stock chipsetcooler because it was howling as well because manufacturers usually include sleeve fans which unfortunately have the problem of having a short life-time or they begin howling after a short time of use.
I would suggest you get a heatsink with some sort of fan blowing at it. I know that coolermaster makes a chipset cooler with a fan. you can try looking into it.

Space is a problem for my new epox motherboard too as the chipset passive cooler is adjacent to the cpu socket which I have an SI-120 on with a SilenX iextreme pro 14db 64cfm+? (i forget but it has a lot of CFM)
 
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