What are the advantages of better NorthBridge cooling?

Boostin14PSI

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I have an extra hsf lying around and i was wondering what the advantage of better north bridge cooling was. See sig for specs on system.

 

mdcomp

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Maybe you could up the voltage on the northbridge (vdd voltage I think), not sure if you have that option on your board. Most likely you won't need the cooling, though. Upping the northbridge (vdd) voltage sometimes helps while overclocking.

 

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Yeah, to get a higher FSB.. if you are not going to Vdd mod then i don't think anything more than a copper Iceberq is practicle.. I have an XP heatsink on my northbridge.. although it would be overkill at Vdd of 1.85 or below i think, and i may still have room for more Vdd.

 

mdcomp

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If you decide to do a vdd mod be careful. My friend killed his motherboard while attempting a vdd mod. You really have to be very cautious (sp).

 

timmyqwest

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You may or may not see more improvement by cooling your GPU with that heatsink...if not, it still looks bad ***

 

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well i have the stock cooler on there now so i guess this hsf fan i have will be worth a shot. I will not be doing any vdd modeshowever.

 

wannaoc

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The NF7-S comes with a decent HSF on it and I'm assuming the NF7 comes with the same one. I wouldn't bother.

 

Zeke968

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It could help increase your FSB, but your ram might be a bottleneck. My PC2700 would only let me get my FSB up to 194.

 

Turd Furguson

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My abit KX7 runs better with a Zalman NB heatsink. Dont ask why. THe original heatsink had a fan on it too.

 

thorilan

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The NF7-S comes with a decent HSF on it and I'm assuming the NF7 comes with the same one. I wouldn't bother.

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i have the rev 2 boardand the NB fan is kinda kool looking i think so when i water cool my NB i might thermal apoxy the fan to the south bridge =)

yes its way overkill but i also heatsinked all my board mosfets last night too!!!!

 

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if you vdd mod it's mucho good because you will need it to have stability with higher fsb clocks, otherwise your good with some good goop and a decent heatsynch .