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Best way to attach Heat Sink on southbridge?

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Afternoon guys and gals,

I have a A7N8X and have been reading the onboard sound starts to mess up sometimes while playing games.
If i attach a H/S to the southbridge will this solve this one?
How is the best way of doing this?
Also is it worth putting a better sink on the northbridge as well the silver one gets very hot.
Can you get some glue or something?
Cheers.
Have a good day.
Malc.
 
A simple 40mm fan on the NB will suffice. For the southbridge people have used mixtures of Arctic Alumina and epoxy resin in 50:50 for attaching the HS to it. This allows it to be pried off at a later date :)
 
I'm also wondering about chipset cooling - after the VDD volt mod (putting the VDD at 1.85) will I *need* S-Bridge cooling, and active N-Bridge cooling? Or will the stock heatsink on the N-Bridge, and the nothingness on the S-Bridge suffice? My S-bridge is blazing hot to the touch already...

I plan to move the stock N-Bridge passive heatsink to the S-Bridge, and put a waterblock on the N-Bridge, is this overkill?
 
I attached a 40 mm fan to my stock Northside at this time. I just ordered a Zalman Gold for the North & will attach the fan to the heatsink.

I have a Vantec thin green heatsink on the south attached with thermo tape. I can remove it real easy in case I have to RMA this board back to Asus.

I looked at the new Swiftech cooler, but I don't know if I can squeeze it on my M/B with using the Swiftech 462-V CPU Heatsink.

Pat.

Pat
 
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