Cooling the Northbridge

[Twofan]

I just saw on another board about a guy using a BlueOrb to cool the Northbridge chip. I am extreemly new to AMD and I have been reading as much as I can find about o/c results and what others are doing. But I have not seen anything about this before. Do you have to cool this chip (I did cool the clock chip on my CUSL2)?

 

[jeff_harrison_344]

you dont HAVE to, but I do

Just touch it, and see how hot it is, if you (or your finger ) feels that it is to hot, then just get a blorb for it.

 

[Phil]

the northbirdges are usually cooled pretty well anyway. Extra cooling usually doesn't offer much extra over the standard cooling, unless of course you want to start super cooling the northbridge for huge fsb's!

 

[Colin]

I run a CoolerMaster socket A HSF on my Northbridge. One thing you might check is the distribution of thermal compound. Northbridge chips are notorious for being concave. You will probably need extra thermal grease. Do to the extra gap, Artic Silvers superior thermal conductivity is ideal for this.

 

[Twofan]

Well, I guess that will be 2 Blorb's, one for the Northbridge and one for the Geforce3. How about the Southbridge? Does it need attention, too??

 

[Colin]

Southbridge? No. You can buy a 50mm wide CoolerMaster at a computer show for $5. It beats the Blorb in cost and cooling.

 

[war_child]

[Hey tofan was looking at the specs for your rig NICE are you running those two drives in a raid config ???

just curios

 

[war_child]

[Hey tofan was looking at the specs for your rig NICE are you running those two drives in a raid config ???

just curios and how is the G3

 

[Daniel ~]

If your using a large water cooling block (Swiftech) you'll do much better adding a fan on the Nothbridge as the water block blocks air circulation around the N.B.with out the CPU fan to stir things up.

 

[Colin]

Daniel ~ (Jun 12, 2001 06:58 p.m.):
If your using a large water cooling block (Swiftech) you'll do much better adding a fan on the Nothbridge as the water block blocks air circulation around the N.B.with out the CPU fan to stir things up.

Good point. Also the heat from the northbridge does not require watercooling. If you try a water block on the northbridge too, your CPU temps will go up.

 

[Bender]

I just stuck a small heatsink from a socket 7 cpu on my North Bridge and that keeps me just a little bit more stable at higher fsb speeds. If you want a high fsb you could also try cooling your clock generator chip.

 

[Twofan]

War_Child, no I am not running in Raid. Not enough advantage in ide raid as of yet MHO. The Geforce3 absolutely ROCKS. I went from a Geforce2 GTS hacked to a Quadro to the 3. Some people say it is not worth the money to do that but they haven't tried it. The Quincunx A.A alone is worth it, not to mention almost double the speed. On my old PIII- 800 I could run Nascar4 @ 1280x1024x32 in OpenGL with a full 43 car field all graphics options on High with anti aliasing with no noticable slow down. Try that with any other vid. card. Yes I am HAPPY with the Geforce3, worth every penny. And I am ready for Unreal2