Where's the PLL chip?

[kiyoshilionz]

Where's the PLL chip on the NF7-S?

I'm looking for where I should be putting this PLL heatsink I got with the Northpole Northbridge cooling kit. I just stuck it on some random chip last time and now that I realize that it didn't really need the cooling, I'm trying to find where the chip this was made for is located. It's also known as the clock generator or frequency generator chip. Apparantly it's supposed to be near the southbridge.....Here's a picture of a PLL chip from sidewindercomputers.com, where I got the chip.

 

[CircuitBreaker8]

That looks like the sound thing

 

[veryhumid]

yeah that's the sound thing, possibly the network thing. i'll try to find where the clock generator usually is...

is this your board? seems like they look like that realtek chip and are located close to cpu.

 

[kiyoshilionz]

Yeah, that's my board but that chip isn't on the NF7-S. And if you look up the number on the chip you can find a website that says that chip is a clock generator. The audio chip is a square one near the AGP port, it's the one that's right under where your board would be. It's left of the big motherboard power connector.

 

[drewthomas14]

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=277718&page=2&pp=30&highlight=pll+chip
scroll down a bit. it's the chip right below the mosfets(1) with white writing. in this thread it says the the one right above(2) needs the cooling because the ppl chip doesnt get hot.

 

[sramjones]

I dont think you would need a small heatsink for those realtek chips

 

[kiyoshilionz]

Grr, that's the one I pulled the PLL heatsink off of! I thought that wasn't the PLL chip so it didn't need it. So i researched what the PLL chip was and it's the chip I thought WASN'T it in the first place. Great......well the heatsink barely got hot so that's why I took it off in the first place, to find something warmer. But those MOSFET's definetly get really hot.

 

[CircuitBreaker8]

Mine never did........but when I had my NF7-S I had a 2500-M that only used 1.75v lol

 

[kiyoshilionz]

LOL yeah, I'm at 1.9V right now so they're nice and toasty.

 

[drewthomas14]

LOL yeah, I'm at 1.9V right now so they're nice and toasty.

put the hs on number 1. like i said in my above post , i read in the thread i linked to that the pll chip doesnt get hot, but the one above the mosfets does.

 

[kiyoshilionz]

I thought I said I took the one of #2 because I figured I'd put it on the PLL, which was supposed to need cooling. But it was already on the PLL and it didn't really need cooling. Weird. As of now I just need a Southbridge heatsink since I took the SB Audigy out.....