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Should I add active cooling to my Epox 8K5A2+ northbridge?

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I have an Epox 8K5A2+ . It has a round heatsink on the northbridge KT333 chipset right now. Does it run hot enough that I should get a 40mm chipset cooler for it?

I did take of the heatsink, clean the white/pink goop off and apply AS3 to it, hopefully it will help.

btw, I haven't put together this system yet, so I dont know temps of it.
 
I did the same except I used the cheaper Alumina. Temp 30-32 at 166. Nothing to worry about, dont think active cooling is a must.

Besides high fsb might not be the best way for speed with 2+, latest beta-bios seems to work better at lower <175 or so than it does above. Add a few wpcredit tweaks and you really must be focused on tons of fsb to pick that route :)
 
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