Northbridge cooling

[tainice]

Hi people, my northbridge is pretty hot, so i cool it by glue a PIII800eb hsf on top of it, with asII in between..is it a good idea? or should i purchase something designed for cooling the northbridge?

[Arkaine23]

Used a PII hsf on mine with AS3 and a couple of drops of superglue. Should be way better than the stock HSF.

[rivercom9]

So throwinga couple of drops of superglue work well with the thermal grease?

[Sonny]

Be careful how you attach your HSF. I have experienced that using super glue on the corners & thermal compound in the middle is just as good as gravity holding it down. Thermal compounds espacially AS need a good amount of compression for it to work properly. The best thing is to use thermal epoxy which you can also make out of steel epoxy & AS thermal compound.

[Arkaine23]

or Arctic Alumina. I got some from Fry's for $2.99!

[tainice]

so in general, my intel hsf is not better nor worst than those of hsf specially designed for chipset cooling right? i mean, as long as i do make some of epoxy or purchase some AS eposy?

[Sonny]

Originally posted by tainice
so in general, my intel hsf is not better nor worst than those of hsf specially designed for chipset cooling right? i mean, as long as i do make some of epoxy or purchase some AS eposy? How thick is the base? Probably no worse nor better.

[tainice]

i dunno, but i have lapped the hsf a bit....