What northbridge cooling does

[WyrmMaster]

On monday i got my order from allelectronics.com. Tore everything apart to install my two 120mm panaflows, and installed a nice heatsink on my northbridge using thermal past and two drops of superglue. Before the mod i could barely get 166fsb, and only with max ramvoltage and slowest timings. With the mod im totally stable ( several hours each of Diablo2, Max Payne, Red Faction and 20 loops of the sandra memory benchmark) at 166fsb CAS2-2-2 with only +.2v DDR.

[RyE]

good times. What heatsink?

[WyrmMaster]

$4.50 from allelectronics. Fan runs at 5800rpm, almost silent, and puts out a pretty good breeze. I actually got two of them, one to put on my video card eventually.

[Robbie]

I got a little blue orb from Thermaltake at Frye's for like $7.99. I though the holes would line up just fine!!! Turns out they were tooooo short so I had to mod the freaking thing. I used some ASII. It is getting warm so it's doing it's job, I just don't know how well. It looks cool anyway.

I think I'm going to cut a hole in the side of the case next and mount a fan there. There is a mod I want to do with some parts that I can get at work. I'll pay for them!! ahahah I've been thinking about putting some blow holes in the front of the case, cuz what's there now is totally NOT enough.

I'll be sure to post pix when I get it done.

Rob