dont think it would hurt any at all, oh and charles mines a raidmax scorpio and its filled w/ fans and now i just nought a cold cathode! HD runs alot and i dont have a [problem. maybe you just got a bad one out of the bunch.
Jeez I have another question not relating to the topic but its my thread so F U haha. My motherboard has a huge heatsink on the North chipset. Im afraid the zalman7000 hsf wont fit. If it doesnt can I just take the chipset heatsink off? Does a chipset absolutely have to have one? They probably put it there for a reason but Im going to be overclocking the hell out of my CPU so thats more important right now.
you need both if yor gonna OC alot. the Northbridge gets hot and when it does will get very unstable and then your OC wil lbe crap. So you need both on there to work right.