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Old 07-13-09   #1 (permalink)
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Default aftermarket NB cooler on a zotac 9300... is it possible???

So my gf and her room mates have most of the hard drive space on their laptops(4 girls, 4 laptops) full of music and movies and pictures and I was going to make them a small file server/HTPC/light gaming computer for them and I wanted to OC the 9300 and CPU so naturally I thought there's no way that dinky little passive aluminum heatsink is gonna cool that so here's my question:

Do you think it's possible to mount this or this aftermarket NB cooler onto the zotac 9300 mini-itx mobo???

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You could always add a few of these on top of the heatsink. You could also replace the TIM on it with IC7 or OCZ Freeze.

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Well I wanted to see if I could completely replace the heatsink.

System: Blue Balls
CPU
Core2 Duo E8400 @ 4Ghz 24/7 (2Ghz FSB)
Motherboard
EVGA 780i
Memory
OCZ 2 X 2GB DDR2-800Mhz @ 1Ghz
Graphics Card
(2) SLI XFX 8800 GT xxx AND 8600GT for PhysX
Hard Drive
1 x 150GB raptor X(OS) 1 x 500GB WD(storage)
Sound Card
x-fi xtrememusic
Power Supply
Corsair 750W PSU
Case
Antec 900
CPU cooling
Megahalems w/San Ace 115CFM and IC Diamond
GPU cooling
2 Thermaltake DuOrb VGA Cooler
OS
Vista 32 Ultimate.....Win7 64 soon
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Why not take advantage of the PCIe x16 slot instead?
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why not both???

Actually, there's gonna be a 9600 in that slot

System: Blue Balls
CPU
Core2 Duo E8400 @ 4Ghz 24/7 (2Ghz FSB)
Motherboard
EVGA 780i
Memory
OCZ 2 X 2GB DDR2-800Mhz @ 1Ghz
Graphics Card
(2) SLI XFX 8800 GT xxx AND 8600GT for PhysX
Hard Drive
1 x 150GB raptor X(OS) 1 x 500GB WD(storage)
Sound Card
x-fi xtrememusic
Power Supply
Corsair 750W PSU
Case
Antec 900
CPU cooling
Megahalems w/San Ace 115CFM and IC Diamond
GPU cooling
2 Thermaltake DuOrb VGA Cooler
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Vista 32 Ultimate.....Win7 64 soon
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so... bump?

System: Blue Balls
CPU
Core2 Duo E8400 @ 4Ghz 24/7 (2Ghz FSB)
Motherboard
EVGA 780i
Memory
OCZ 2 X 2GB DDR2-800Mhz @ 1Ghz
Graphics Card
(2) SLI XFX 8800 GT xxx AND 8600GT for PhysX
Hard Drive
1 x 150GB raptor X(OS) 1 x 500GB WD(storage)
Sound Card
x-fi xtrememusic
Power Supply
Corsair 750W PSU
Case
Antec 900
CPU cooling
Megahalems w/San Ace 115CFM and IC Diamond
GPU cooling
2 Thermaltake DuOrb VGA Cooler
OS
Vista 32 Ultimate.....Win7 64 soon
Monitor
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