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How do you install a heatsink on the southbridge of an EPoX 8RDA motherboard? Do you use super glue or is there some special thermal grease that will make the heatsink stick to the southbridge?
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what does that have to do with a heatsink?Default said:is it really that nesessary? I thought 8RDA locked the pci frequency?
Tycho said:I have used super glue on the corners to secure heatsinks in the past but I'm getting ready to order arctic alumina from svc.
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Arctic silver also makes an adhesive but I'm too worried about
getting it on since I'm very messy and it is capacitive.
Yes, yes you do. (learned that the hard way).xAlucarDx said:Do you need to remove the motherboard from the case to mount/unmount the north/south bridge heatsinks on the 8rda+ using the mount holes?
I got the Thermaltake Extreme Spirit North Bridge/ South Bridge cooler and I applied the NB cooler to my south bridge and the VERY small south bridge heat sinks to my video card. I Just played doom 3 for an hour and had no problems - I think it's fixed!Also, any recommendations for a heatsink, my sound is messing up and I want it to stop! Or if anyone is relatively sure the sound would be fixed... It only happens on days when I don't have the Air Conditioning on in the house, so I'm assuming it won't take much to fix this problem.
Well, this one I didn't test, so I'd still be interested in hearing an answer since I plan on putting the new NB cooler onto the NB next time I have the mobo out of the case.update: I put my finger on the south bridge, if I hold it on there for a few seconds it gets pretty damn hot... I'm worried about permanently damaging the mobo if I don't do something about this pretty fast. Do you think the North Bridge stock heatsink will be enough to keep this thing cool? If so, any recommendations for a good NB heatsink?
It could very well help with overclocking. For one, the SB isn't controlled by the PCI bus, but instead controls the PCI bus. A locked PCI bus isn't going to make life a whole lot easier on the southbridge, it just makes life easier for PCI/AGP devices. Also, increasing the VDD on the NB results in an increase on the Southbridge as well, producing more heat. Lastly, the link between the NB and SB has to be affected by the NB, which in turn is affected by FSB. That makes FSB and the SB indirectly related, at the very least. Southbridge overheating often causes audio crackling on onboard solutions, and other random stability problems. Even with a stock system, cooling the NF2 southbridge, while not generally necessary, is always a good idea.he means it's not running any hotter than stock, no boards have been known to need additional cooling to the south bridge that controls the pci bus which is locked at 33mhz, so it won't get hotter with overclocking, it will be even cooler than older boards where pci bus is overclocked with fsb cpu overclocking, logic leading to it being unnecessary and isn't going to help with overclocking anyway
Even with a stock system, cooling the NF2 southbridge, while not generally necessary, is always a good idea.