northbridge cooling

[hellrazrblade]

okay guys, i searched through the general cooling and i haven't found out how i remove the northbridge cooler. what do i do to the little white dealies that are holding it in? am i going to have to remove the mobo to do it? i have a KR7A-133R

links or anything would be greatly appreciated because i really dont want to mess this up

[hooziewhatsit]

You'll probably have to take the mobo out. If you squeeze the little white thingies on the backside, you should be able to push them out. You'll see what I mean when you get the mobo out.

good luck!

[hellrazrblade]

thanks!

btw, i have already recruited 2292mhz (mine and a 700p3) for team 32, so im trying! (.. the avatar)

[Yodums]

I got the KR7A-RAID. Take the motherboard out, you have to squeeze the push pins together at the back and it will eject the pins out on the other side. Then do the same to the second one, make sure you have a firm grip on the heatsink and don't let it fall.

When I removed the northbridge from my KR7A-RAID I saw a dab of thermal paste filling 1/5 of the core, horrible by Abit. It should help you alot, if you have time do a fast lap but I don't think that's really necessary since the chipset puts out barely heat and AS3 should help it alot.

Yodums

[hellrazrblade]

great, thanks for the step-by-step yodums! i think if i go through the trouble to take the mobo out, i'll cut my top 120mm blowhole and lap the northbridge cooler also. do i need to be very careful to not get too much AS3 on the northbridge? i know that that stuff sorta melts and oozes around the chip. dont want anything to short out

[Yodums]

Yes it does melt abit and move around while the 72 hour burn in process. That's why I used AS2 for the northbridge because it's much more thicker than AS3. Just becareful. Take your time, you can put paper towels around so you don't hit the motherboard with AS on the tip of the blade etc.

[rivercom9]

Can you put a Corb on a Northbridge if it has those holes?

[macklin01]

What if the manufacturer's northbridge isn't attached by the two hole method (like the holes are there, but it appears to be super-glued on.)

THanks -- Paul

[rivercom9]

You may have to use thermal epoxy like arctic alumina epoxy or arctic silver epoxy. If not, depending on the weight of the HS, you can just super glue the corners of the HS to the NB and have some thermal grease in the middle of the NB.

[macklin01]

Thanks. My other (and actually bigger) concern is how to remove it in the first place. Mine actually has the holes, but Shuttle chose to slap one on with some sort of epoxy, rather than use the holes.

I'm afraid of damaging the chipset when attempting to remove the HS.

Thanks for your response! -- Paul

[rivercom9]

What you can try is using a hairdrier to heat it up a bit. Hopefully, the heat from the hairdrier should make the epoxy much softer and thus easier to remove. Just be careful not to heat it up so much that it could damage the MB. Good luck.

[hellrazrblade]

alright, i'll be reall;y careful, might just put some scotch tape around it so that i can remove the tape after like 4 days when the as3 has set up.

side note: rivercom: how did you get the tbird heatsink on your k6-2? i was looking at mine (k62 500, super socket 7) and i dont think that the socket A heatsink will fit how did you mod it?

hey, its my thread, so its okay to steal it, hehe :D

[rivercom9]

I didnt need to mod it at all. It fit right in perfectly. Lucky I guess cause I know that some of those socket 7 MB have very cramped areas around the socket.

[Deadphishy]

i changed my northbridge cooler to a c orb i had to pull my old heatsink sink off it was glued on. i just put a small drop of superglue and some thermal grease on it and my orbs on pretty good. changing to a non passive cooler realy helped lower my mb temp and let me overclock my fsb a few mhz higher and still be stable.

[hellrazrblade]

alright, i'll give the socket A heatsink a try on my k6-2, thanks
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