Help with ASIII on northbridge

drewthomas14 · Feb 25, 2003

I found out I have an A3 revision. anyways how much of the northbridge do i cover up with ASIII? also i cant hit 200fsb. i dont think its my psu but if it is im getting a fortron/sparkle 350w psu cuz i liked mine till i broke it. i can get my chip to 2.3ghz and some odd mhz at 195fsb with 1.75v but when i try 200fsb its not stable. shouldnt i at least be able to hit 200? my psu is a 420w psu i dont have specs but its the same model no. and manufactured by the same company as the thermaltake 420w

OCn00b · Feb 25, 2003

If you're talking about the comp in your sig, have you tried 10x200 yet?

drewthomas14 · Feb 25, 2003

i'll try it ,but my chip is capable of running higher than that. but you know anything about how much of the northbrige chips i should cover with artic silver? there is a silver round part and then a then a black part around it. where do i put it on. all over ?

drewthomas14 · Feb 25, 2003

bump. anyone know if i put it on the whole chip or just the silver part?

OCn00b · Feb 25, 2003

I've never messed with my northbridge but I would think you would only need to put the as3 any place there will be contact with the heatsink.

drewthomas14 · Feb 25, 2003

thanks. looks like it will only need to be the silver part then

OCn00b · Feb 25, 2003

np man, I like helping with things I don't know about

drewthomas14 · Feb 25, 2003

i dont know if it is so im gonna wait till i find fer sureit. hopefully someone will get in here soon and anwser.

muzz · Feb 25, 2003

I don't know if that black portion gets hot, or is just part of the packaging( I imagine it gets warm just by being in contact).. I ONLY spread it on the silver circle myself, and I did a test to see how it mated ( put hs on and take it off to see the AS3 imprint on the hs), and made sure it was mating well b4 I installed it for good,as the 2 nb's I've seen have been much lower in the center than the edges, which makes for bad heat transfer.

Make sure it's mating well, or it could actually run hotter( the actual NB chip- NOT the hs) than it did with the thermal tape, as that thermal tape is thick so it helped mate the hs to the nb( the thermal tape they use is placed in the center of the nb where it is lowest on the 2 nb's I have seen).

Good Luck

drewthomas14 · Feb 25, 2003

lol, just in time. thanks muzz.

lazyart · Feb 25, 2003

Take the NB heatsink off and put something on that fits. Like an iceberq...

drewthomas14 · Feb 25, 2003

this is just temporary untill i get money. i lapped it so it should be alright with this heatsink and as3

drewthomas14 · Feb 25, 2003

got it at 200x10 right now running one test of 3dmark while running prime95

muzz · Feb 25, 2003

Glad to hear you lapped it flat b4 putting it together. Should be mating good now if you took your time and kept checking it. :clap:

drewthomas14 · Feb 25, 2003

i used a thicker layer than normal just to be safe side .its making good contact. now i gotta wait for it to set in b/c the heatsink moves around a bit .

muzz · Feb 25, 2003

What do ya mean moves around, didn't you put the push pins back in? I hope you didn't put on a thick coating of AS3, supposed to be thin for max transfer( less material it has to go through).

drewthomas14 · Feb 25, 2003

it wasnt very thick, just thicker than normal. i pushed the pins through but it can still move

drewthomas14 · Feb 25, 2003

i'll check tomorrow or sumthing to see if i need to take some as off

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