For review tonight is Microcools NorthPole XE whisper. Serving not only as a chipset heatsink for AMD and Intel, the Northpole XE can also be used as a CPU cooler for socket 479. With a noise rating of under 18dB the Northpole XE should be able to keep the core cool without being heard. Read on while I put this up against an AMD based nForce 4 Ultra based board. - rbmods.com