With everything seeming to just get faster and faster with each new revision or product that comes out there seems to be an increase in heat output as well, most people concern themselves with cooling their CPUs and video cards but forget about their chipsets. The chipset does quite a bit of work, in the motherboard the chipsets are more the heart of the system than the CPU really, they make everything work together, with a hot Northbridge chip your system will not run stable as it controls data transfer from all of the main components in the system. I personally have found this out, my stock heatsink mount popped off at one corner, and at a glance it appeared to still be attached, but my system kept shutting down, and it took me quite a while to figure out what the culprit was, I'm lucky I didn't fry it really...

Today for review I've got the Porter N881 Chipset cooler from Xigmatek and from my testing it is an excellent choice to cool todays hot chipsets. Not only does the Porter perform well passively cooling the chip, but you can add an additional fan to further improve cooling and help your overclock.

So read on to learn more about the Porter from Xigmatek...

Xigmatek Porter N881 Chipset Cooler

Author: Kristofer Brozio

Sponsor: Xigmatek

Tech Specs,Features or the Basic Info:

Xigmatek Porter N881 Chipset Cooler

Air Cooling System H.D.T. Series

The world´s No.1 H.D.T. technology cooler for North-bridge chip, Porter N881, is nowadays announced to satisfy most users´ efficient cooling requirement. Like other H.D.T. family coolers, Porter N881 accomplishes outstanding cooling value and strongest performance. Not only effectively provides cooling performance, but also cools CPU temperature at the same time, which has played the multiplication role in the overall performance. While for high efficiency CPU, memory and AGP bus stable, Porter N881 will greatly increase your overclocking ability.

Overview:

With H.D.T. technology and Ø8mm heat-pipe, Porter N881 creates most efficient heat conduction and outstanding cooling performance.

Porter N881 is a fan option design model. Gamers can choose 80 mm fan freely to satisfy their requirement and enjoy DIY fun.

With anti-vibration rubber and multiple application design, Porter N881provides not only user friendly but also quick installation.

Features:

-H.D.T. (Heat-pipe direct touch) technology.

-Special fin shape design

-High performance heat-pipe.

-Light weight.

-Anti-vibration rubber design for fan (Optional)

-Easy installation.

Specs:

Product Name: Porter-N881

Product Number: CAN-S8HH1-U01

Base Material: H.D.T. (heat-pipe direct touch)

Fin Material: Aluminum alloy

Dimension: 127.8(W) x 80(H) x 48.9(D) mm

Weight: 150 g

Application:

Intel LGA775 platform

-nVidia: SiS: SiS 656

-ATI: Radeon Express 200

-Intel: P35,G33,P33,975X,Q965,P965,G965, 955X, 945G, 945P, 945PL, 925X, 925XE, 915G, 915P, 865PE, 848P

-nForce4 SLI Intel Edition,790X,780G,770,650i

-SiS 661FX/964

-VIA: P4M800, PT880 Ultra

Intel Socket 478 platform

-Intel: 865, 865G, 845, 845PE, 875

Price: $24.99 at time of review from NewEgg