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Can someone tell me what the Green circled VIA chip controls its burning hot
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Burning hot VIA chip
- Thread starter AmbientFiction
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That would be the southbridge. I believe it channels all the PCI and ISA information to the northbridge
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Any reason it would be hot to the touch?
I am running my 633 @ 712 I don't think that would be enough to heat it up too much I could see running it at say 980mhz. Maybe that is why my system is unstable at 980. Could that cause it to be unstable?
I am running my 633 @ 712 I don't think that would be enough to heat it up too much I could see running it at say 980mhz. Maybe that is why my system is unstable at 980. Could that cause it to be unstable?
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It shouldn't be. The northbridge controls the FSB settings
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Well is their any reason it would be so frigging hot I have the ac blowing on it right now to keep it cool.Well I think the instability is coming from something on the PCI bus
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Wow I have never heard of the southbridge being burning hot its usually just slightly warm when you touch it.
Pull out the pci cards and see if its still hot.
If not then start putting them in one at a time and check the southbridge until you find what card is making it so hot.
Pull out the pci cards and see if its still hot.
If not then start putting them in one at a time and check the southbridge until you find what card is making it so hot.
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I can't get even get it to boot at 100mhz now I hate this board. I know its not the CPU its this tekrap board. Gahhhhhhhh!!!!!
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Ive heard of this before but not much, make or put a small HSF on it to take care of the heat problem and you will be happier, thats if it's not a MB problem causing the heat issue which it may be.
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Well anyone know why all of a sudden that I can't post 100mhz FSB and higher could it be that the heat from the south bridge is causeing this?
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Well I could use a cooler instead of the greenie on that one I took it off and used thermal paste to put it back on. I just need to find something that will fit the southbridge. That ought to be fun
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I heard somewhere that VIA southbridges run HOT. My intel southbridge runs very cool w/o a HSF. Maybe its a via thing. 
Vantec has a chipset cooling bundle with a southbridge greenie included.
Vantec has a chipset cooling bundle with a southbridge greenie included.
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my 686b isnt even warm letalone hot enough to burn my finger sounds like mybe one of your peripherals is mybe overloading it or something
