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put my digital doc in and put one of the sensors on the uncooled sb...37.5 - 38C....gotta get an hsf on there.
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SB is hot, hot HOT!
- Thread starter Jarhead7236
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well i have a 8rda+ and the nf2 sb gets toasty when your using onboard crap alot, so i put a zalman cube on but the epoxy just couldnt take it so it fell off, luckly when i was putting rbx on so it didnt hurt anything. Sloution i took old nb hs and put it on sb with little dremel action b/c i lost bolt attachment crap for zalman cube
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It might help your soundquality too... If you use the onboard sound...
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my 8rda+ SB runs pretty cool...
38c should be fine, if it becomes unstable though, then u might want to consider a heatsink, i personally ripped off the orginal NB passive heatsink and put it on there since i had a waterblock on the NB anyways. running fine even at 200fsb
38c should be fine, if it becomes unstable though, then u might want to consider a heatsink, i personally ripped off the orginal NB passive heatsink and put it on there since i had a waterblock on the NB anyways. running fine even at 200fsb
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it's stable but i was surprised at the temp....
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dude 38 isn't high
now check out ur mosfets, they go up to 70-80c while overclock
now thats hot
now check out ur mosfets, they go up to 70-80c while overclock
now thats hot
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hmm... i feel a dare coming on at the next lan party. can anyone say 3rd degree burn?
At high FSBs the Southbridge does become really hot, they can go up to 60*C without a heatsink and even further. The good thing about my board, the Epox 8RDA+ is that it has mounting holes for a Southbridge heatsink so I've got an old RivaTNT2 heatsink on there with some AS3. Works wonders. Whereas the NF7 I ordered and justb een told that its arrived doesnt so I will have to use epoxy on that one.
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the guy i bought my rda+ from had hsf's on the nb and sb....and mosfet cooling. i'm gonna do the same for this kra2+...but i need to get some adhesive TIM first. i'll put a sensor on my mosfets to check them out, too....
Way I done my 8RDA+ Northbridge was using an old heatsink designed for Socket 7 processors, its ample good enough for my Norhtbridge. I cut out two pieces of anti-static foam (this usually comes with motherboards, its the stuff they lay on) this is tp protect the back of the board, mainly the resistors on the back of the NB but also the PCB from scratches. I used a cable tie going round the heatsink in between two of its fins and down through ther other mounting hole in the board, here I pulled it taught, and attached another cable tie to it, this one attaches again top the first one where the cable tie origianlly goes through, cut off the loose ends and voila! This way, you can use a good transfer interface material between the NB and Heatsink whereas if you use an epoxy the epoxy is the TIM. I used AS3 on my Northbridge to finish off my tube.
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Wow.. pretty neat link... lotsa conveniently shaped HSs there...
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jeez that board has heatsinks on everything. thats insane cooling. why not get a massive heatsink.... the size of the mobo....then dremel out inbetween stuff on the mobo (so there would be raised sections that would contact all important parts of the mobo) and slap that on... sounds crazy, but its kinda like the huge video card coolers.
on a side note, on the microcool website, the buttons at the top of the page change when you mouse over them. the images for the indented buttons have a 1 place over position. i was confused and amused by the jumping buttons
on a side note, on the microcool website, the buttons at the top of the page change when you mouse over them. the images for the indented buttons have a 1 place over position. i was confused and amused by the jumping buttons
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I think it's to make their product looks more needed... You don't need cooling on a lot of that stuff.
What a waste of heatsinks sticking them on everything. The only things on motherboards that need Heatinks are the Northbridge Chipset, Southbridge when running at high FSBs, MOSFETs (although its the bottom of them that creates the most heat) and PLL chips, particularly the ones near the processor socket and sometimes the ones that contol the vDimm voltage. Other than this things like RAID or SATA controllers, Sound codec chips etc do not need cooling.
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