[yog]

I just bought a new GeForce 2 motherboard and it has a heatsink with no fan on the northbridge. I remember reading that the northbridge gets really hot, which is probably why it has such a huge heatsink on it. My question is how warm should it be getting? Right now I have a temp sensor in the fins of the heatsink and it gets up to 125+ degrees. Is this too warm?

[rseven]

I assume you mean 125F. No, that's not too hot. If that's the same heatsink I have on my A7N8X Deluxe it was pretty notorious for being slightly concave on the bottom and providing limited cooling. (Remember though, that some boards have no heatsink at all on the NB) If you can get to the back of the board you can remove it and put some better TIM on it or just replace it. However, you only need to do this if you are really going to push the board to the extreme. Mine was fine up to 205fsb without doing anything to the NB cooler.

[Susquehannock]

Assuming we are talking the ASUS a7n8x in your sig ... the NB sink on that board
is pretty beefy compared to other nf2 boards. Which is why they usually don't come with a fan.

However .... every stock NB sink I have seen had a dished surface with generic white goop.
Lapping the stock sink and applying some premium paste will go a long way keeping your NB cool.