Unexpected Watercooling side effect...

Maxvla · Jul 1, 2003

with a waterblock on my cpu my northbridge no longer gets air passing over it. its a 845E chipset board and its running at 200mhz when its designed for 100 and 133mhz. needless to say i can burn myself on it if i left my finger on the heatsink long enough.

bios says its at 75 degrees at full load. i turned my box fan to the side of my case and it immediately lowered it to 50 degrees. without the fan it will lock up and reboot in gaming.

putting a fan on my board really defeats the purpose of watercooling. i guess i just need to upgrade to a newer chipset that can run 200mhz cold/cool. not worth putting a nb block on this old board.

jlin453 · Jul 1, 2003

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oh sorry, did you type something? I was staring at your avatar

But yeah, upgrades are always fun

OLMI · Jul 1, 2003

what? uh.. water cooling? on asian girls? oooh..

oh, wait.. crap. computers... well if you're hungry you could fry yourself an egg on that...

no not on the chipset, on the asian chick

Maxvla · Jul 1, 2003

ok boys... if i can direct your attention to the thread...

OLMI · Jul 1, 2003

Maxvla said:
ok boys... if i can direct your attention to the thread...

i dont really know about water cooling.. i dont know what i'm doing here

but hmm, what is a box fan exactly?

Maxvla · Jul 1, 2003

OLMI · Jul 1, 2003

ya, i guess a fan is kinda dorky on a wc system.. especially if you have to use that thingy to blow air into your case lol.. happy upgrading sir. oh ya, almost forgot to ask.. how the hell did you get 10 stars? [edit] the forum policy thread only goes up to 9 stars

Maxvla · Jul 1, 2003

OLMI said:
ya, i guess a fan is kinda dorky on a wc system.. especially if you have to use that thingy to blow air into your case lol.. happy upgrading sir. oh ya, almost forgot to ask.. how the hell did you get 10 stars? [edit] the forum policy thread only goes up to 9 stars

all staff ranks have 10 stars. blues, reds, greens are all 10 regardless of post count.

OLMI · Jul 1, 2003

Maxvla said:
all staff ranks have 10 stars. blues, reds, greens are all 10 regardless of post count.

ooooh, that's awesome. thanks for the info sir.

olmi out

rogerdugans · Jul 1, 2003

To get back onto topic...as difficult as that may be

Originally posted by He of the Asian Avatars
not worth putting a nb block on this old board.

I will disagree, and so does your system.
That's 2 to 1, so put an HSF on there, NOW!

Seriously- the rest of the system is holding up under the pressure of overclocking to that point, but the NB is not due to temps.
A small HSF will add little or no noise but should let you get rid of the box fan at least!

Of course, it IS your system, but if that one fix will make a substantial improvement in perfromance I think it is a mistake to skip it.

Giblet Plus! · Jul 1, 2003

Just put a really big passive heatsink on there. I've got a pentium heatsink on mine:

jlin453 · Jul 1, 2003

Excuse the messy cables, it's being worked on

that's one of the thermalright heatsinks(below the sk6). Thermal adhesive is great

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