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#818 - Nexus NHP-2200 Northbridge Cooler |
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Written by Zach Jeffers
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Tuesday, 01 May 2007 |
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Page 6 of 7
Installation:
Installation of the Nexus NHP-2200 is pretty simple once you figure it out. First step is to remove a screw from the base that holds the retention block over the heat pipe. You then place the long side of the mounting plate between the retention block and the cooler’s base. Now screw back in the mounting screw through the base, the retention wing, and back into the retention block. You see how the instructions could have become confusing..?
 
Once you have your retention hardware installed to the cooler, and then remove the stock cooler off of the chipset. Make sure to clear any pre-existing thermal compound. On our test motherboard, we do not have an IHS so we will use the included chipset foam shim to assist in preventing damage to the chip during installation. Once you have your chipset die cleaned up, place the cooler on the chip and do a dry run lineup. On our Northbridge, we use the spring loaded pins.
  
Once you have your cooler configured correctly, apply a very thin layer of thermal compound and mount the cooler.
 
Utilizing the hook method, you follow the same basic steps of preparation and installation. During our installation of the Nexus cooler on our Southbridge, the included chipset shim was too big. We had to go without a shim for the Southbridge. One thought here is that the included retention arms that are used for this type of mounting are not very stiff. The cooler was easily tipped either way. The cooler did mount flat on the chipset, but could possibly make better contact with a bit more tension.
   
One thing to make sure of when choosing this cooler is that it does have height to it and it could pose a problem to installation of video cards or other devices located around the chipset. The Northbridge on our test motherboard was completely in the clear here, but just like the Noctua coolers, when mounting to the Southbridge, the cooler gets in the way of extended graphics cards. This is obviously due to this motherboard’s layout and not to the cooler, but something to look at while choosing an aftermarket chipset cooler for your system.
   
For testing of the Nexus NHP-2200 chipset cooler, the following hardware was used:
Enclosure: Cooler Master Stacker STC-T01 (Noctua NF-S12 fans intake/exhaust)
Power Supply: Ultra
X3 1000watt
Processor: AMD 3800+ X2 (Socket AM2)
Motherboard: ECS
KA3 MVP
Memory: Crucial
Ballistix 2gig (2 x 1gig) DDR2 PC2-6400
Video: 2 x x1600Pro 256mb DDR2 in Crossfire
Storage: Seagate 7200.10 320 GB SATA2, 7200.9 500 GB SATA2
Optical: Plextor PX-740UF PATA
Results:
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