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- Jun 27, 2012
Hello everyone, i have a gigabyte 990fx ud3 and the north bridge heatsink is SCALDING. To the touch. Everything in my system is at stock speeds. I used to have a hyper 212 heatsink on the CPU with two fans so the NB was able to breathe a little. I've since added a custom liquid loop so the heat only grew. My board has no sensor for the NB and I've looked on several programs. Hwmonitor etc I've been using a laser temp reader to measure. I have decent air flow in my case, but regardless, the NB should not be as hot as it is at stock speeds when the computer is at idle. It hovers around 76C at idle and goes above 100 under load. I'm afraid to do anything with it then. I've replaced the thermal paste with IC diomand and although temps went down a little, its still red hot. Is it worth getting a new heatsink? Or is my board just toast? I did get this board on clearance at microcenter. This may be the reason...any help is appreciated.