stock amd hsf on northbridge?

[Krusty]

Ok, my water cooling setup will be going into effect within a month now, so I need to think about a little northbridge cooling now.

Could I take the aluminum stock hsf that came with my 1.4 athlon and use as adhesive to mount it on my northbridge? I checked for size and it will fit in there well, but will I have problems with the weight or bulkyness in general on the northbridge?

I would stick my glaciator on there as I won't need it any more, but I saw what happened to my roommates cpu when he simply moved his computer across the room...bad stuff. The glaciator definately wouldn't stay on there long.

[Yodums]

The Glaciator wouldn't stay on there.

It will just like slide off and chip something possibly your video card or the motherboard.

Since your going for a water cooling setup would you have the cash to put in a jar for a waterblock-chipset cooler?

If not the retail fan will do sort of fine just that replace the fan and lap it and then put it on. Just that I wonder if you can like stick a net under the heatsink as just incase it may fall :D

Yodums

[Breadfan]

Hmmm yeah glaciator might not say on :)

And the glaciator MAY be overkill anyway...what I mean ofcourse is that you probably wouldn't get much more fsb from the glaciator than the retail amd cpu hsf...

AS epoxy will do well, but perhaps a backup system is a good idea.

Maybe you could create a simple holding mecanism. Just use a pieice of metal and a few bolts and nylon washers and you could proabbly utilize the two holes used by the normal chipset cool to hold the cpu hsf on....ofcourse it is larger so you'd most likely have to drill holes through the base.

Get the idea? A bit hard to describe, but basically a piece of metal going horizontal over the hsf and the two bolts going though the mobo's holes held by nylon washers and metal nuts...

Just epoxy might do the job just fine, but if you are worried about it falling off rigging a setup like that would pretty much garuntee it won't go anywhere..

Mike

[Yodums]

I suggest Arctic Allumina Adhensive since if it does slip off and the thermal compound rubs against the motherboard something like ASII can get in the traces of the motherboard and be capcitative(spelling) and damge things.

Yodums

[Krusty]

Originally posted by Yodums
I suggest Arctic Allumina Adhensive since if it does slip off and the thermal compound rubs against the motherboard something like ASII can get in the traces of the motherboard and be capcitative(spelling) and damge things.

Yodums

D'oh! The acrtic alumina was cheaper than the as epoxy too. I just ordered some of the epoxy along with my waterblock (to save on shipping). Accidently clicked it twice and didn't notice it too, so now I will have two packs of as epoxy.

I figured the big difference is that one is aluminum and the other is silver. Is there somethign else that I'm missing that makes a big difference?

And the backup sounds like a good idea. I could probably rig somthing to attach to the motherboard holes to keep her on there. Think it's worth it saving a little money on buying a BLORB?