How / how to cool the chipset on the GA-Z77P-D3 motherboard?

Question

Cooling systems

Recently I encountered the fact that linux stops seeing hards during operation. I checked the loops, the hard ones too, but the decrease in the speed of the fans of the system unit made the precipitation of linux more frequent for the same reason.

The chipset on the motherboard has one low passive cooler, not connected to anything by tubes. If you touch it, it's very hot, much hotter than proca. And this is at idle. There is no specific figure, because Linux nodes for sensors do not hook them up for my board.
I googled the Internet for active or large passive coolers for the chipset, but I found a few (in fact, hardware stores don’t really try to classify these pieces of iron normally) and the contradictory impressions in the reviews are confusing.
I would like to hear the real experience of installing an active cooler on modern chipsets and the names of the models themselves / links to them.
Along the way, I wonder if some component of the computer can degrade during operation and cause a stable increase in chipset temperature? Case / coolers without dust (cleaned not so long ago), the computer has been working 24/365 for about two years. In my understanding, dried thermal paste (or thermal paste located under the chipset heatsink) can only give less heat to the heatsink, but it is still hot like a stove, that is, it is not a problem.

Answer 1

The easiest option is to buy an ordinary quiet cooler and screw it to the radiator with a self-tapping screw.