Northbridge Heat Compare

[moosedick]

I have an Intel 815ep chipset and wondered how hot the northbridge gets in comparison to BX mobos and newer VIA chipsets. I want to know so I can deciede what kind of cooling to get. Do you think I'd be better off with a Globalwin FAC08 that I can use arctic silver on and clip onto the mobo......or.....the Globalwin FA420 (which has a larger heatsink and was tested as performing better than the FAC08) that uses thermal tape? thanks

 

[outhouse]

I think ive covered this with you but dont use sticky tape your HSF will fall off eventually and does a bad job at transfering heat I would use the best HSF the cooler the better, But save yourself the money and make your own with the northbridge its nice to have good cooling but you dont have to go to extremes unless your pushing your PC to the limit and if a home made HSF [cut down to fit] will not do the job then its time for peltiers or water cooling, Generaly cooling the northbridge can bring stability at high FSB settings but getting it extra cool is not going to give you that much more in the way of extra performance the way keeping a overclocked proccesor cool will. I stand corrected after reading todays front page article extreme cooling does help quite abit my mistake