Woho! Active South Bridge cooling :D

Well today I had some extra time to blow so I decided to 'fix' my sb heatsink. I am running the nf7-s v2 so a heatsink is needed on the sb in the 1st place. I had bought the vantec iceberq thing that comes with 2 heatsinks and one active. I had the larger passive on attached to the SB via that black heat tape that comes with the package. Well I have been hearing some crackling in frozen throne after about 1-2 hours.

So I took my original nb cooler that come with the mobo and lapped it (it really needed it) then I took the active iceberq cooler and lapped it. I sanded the nb and sb just a little to make sure and then blew the off. I applied some arctic ceramique (almost out!) and did some supper glue on 2 corners of the sb to attach it. I also had to lengthen the wires on the sb cooler so that they could reach their 2 prong plug on the motherboard.

Ah just felt like typing it out (someone needs to recognize my work . I will see if I am able to get a higher fsb later tonight but I think my limit is my ram. But I am perfectly happy getting 230+ fsb with corsair 3200.

My brother just left today for college. He managed to make off with the dvd player, vcr ( I rented a movie and then was like hmm...no vcr, and one of my system fans!!! RAAA! Oh I recently got my 4th star

nice - so its worked a treat then? no more apparent sound issues..as im planning on buying a couple of those zalman nb heatsinks get cooling happy with them - although *touch wood* going from 2.45 to the drivers that come with the mobo seems to have solved my problem anyway.

congrats on your 4th star

Well no more cracks or anything in the audio during gameplay. Mod = successfull/ and looks great.

Any pictures of the work done?

I dont have a digital camera. I hope to snag a friends soon this week and snap many pics of my rig. Stay tuned.