This sound weird to you?

[CrystalMethod]

I was installing "Homeworld : Cataclysm", so naturally I shut down SETI so it'd go faster. I played for a couple of hours, finally failed a mission, and then went out to the store to get some festive bee... errr, I mean... cheer. I'm sitting reading through the forums on my second machine, and I glance over at my other monitor. You know the feeling when somthing doesn't look right but you can't put your finger on it right away? MBM in the try was reading 23°C and 26°C, I just thought to myself that they were really good temps even though the machine was at idle. Then it hit me that the first reading is my CPU temp. Is it at all possible that my cpu at idle is cooled below the temp of my northbridge? The CPU has an Alpha PEP66 with a Delta screamer, but the north bridge still has no modifications to it's cooling, just the stock heatsink with thermal tape. Just to make sure MBM wasn't completely out of whack, I started SETI again. Sure enough, tmep rose to where they're supposed to be. It's sitting at 34°C (CPU), and 28°C (Northbridge), right now. Just wondering if I should cool the northbridge actively (i.e. add a fan or a blorb or sorb). I'm going to pull off the themal tape tomorrow, and put on some ASII, but should I even bother? or just wait till thursday and get a real cooler?

[Yodums]

Sounds like my old system.

I tried adding some ASII to the north bridge didn't do nothing.

The only reason I see the point if its having stablity and the northbridge needs more cooling.

If its working fine don't go crazy with it before anything goes wrong.

Cheers
Yodums

[ButcherUK]

That an external probe or the standard motherboard temp sensor you got the 26 from? Also northbridges usually have lame cooling so it being hotter wouldn't surprise me.

[mw521]

I modified a blorb to work on my northbridge. The pins don't fit from the blorb, so I made a copper shim then attached the blorb to it. Just make a shim the size of the original greenie and then use one hole of the blorb with a shim hole lined up with an original pin. The other end put a small nut and bolt and attach it to the shim, then use original pin to attach it. I will send pics if you want. A blorb should be enough cooling for you.:beer:

[ButcherUK]

I AS epoxied a FOP32 onto my northbridge, rewired the fan to 5V, works great and is much quieter than the stock cooling.

[CrystalMethod]

There's no fan on the northbridge heatsink presently, but I may add one, I have a few extras kicking around here, and a few at work.

[The Overclocker]

just add a small fan to the northbrige and leave it. i kept on trying to cool my northbrige on my great now dead mobo, in the end the whole chipset came off on the bottem of a large heatsink