Southbridge cooling.

guandi · 01-10-2004, 04:17 PM

The hottest part of my comp right now, is my southbridge. cpu=38, northbridge=26, gffx5950u=35, southbridge=58.

fsck.

its a DFI nforce 2 400 ultra, rev b.

its just got a passive hs on it atm

i'm tired.

any ideas on how to cool it down?

i think i might have to make a 4th waterblock for it.

fsk it. any ideas where i could buy a very small waterblock? one that it ver light and has no fittinh hardware?

i'm going to bed. nigth all

j813 · 01-10-2004, 05:54 PM

How did you measure the SB, does it have a BIOS temp reading? Do you use or have a SPDIF connection for your sound? I think NF2's SBs create because of this add-ons and other capabilities.

Glad to hear sombody gettin serious about this, I thought I was too much.

guandi · 01-11-2004, 04:04 AM

mesured it with a thermometer with a little dab of Arctice silver on the end

its quite accurate, to within 3'c usually. i just tried playing Iront Storm (for the first time, i quite like it ) and about 15 mins into it the comp crashed, so i checked the temps, and the southbridge was nearly at 80'c

i am going to use the northbridge heatsink (with a corner cut off so that it fits snugly) with a fan mounted on the edge of my gfx card (its a gf fx 5950 ultra, it needs all the fans it can get, lol) when my watercooling for the cpu/nb/gpu gets here.

althought, without the heastink on the northbridge, it doesnt get nearly as hot as the southbridge with its heatsink. (dont try that at home kids, i kept my finger on it at all times and if it were to overheat, i had a heatsink that i had left in the freezer ready to slap on it to give me abough time to shutdown) maybe i will see if there is a way that i could secure a waterblock to the southbridge, the only thing that i'm worried about is the weight and pressure from the tubing, as there is no way of physically attaching a heastink without glue of some kind. :shrug:

hrm. i'm gonna have a think and a mess about with a load of random heasinks etc. and get back to you on this one.

01-10-2004, 04:17 PM	#1
guandi Cooling Savant Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: UK Posts: 174	Southbridge cooling. The hottest part of my comp right now, is my southbridge. cpu=38, northbridge=26, gffx5950u=35, southbridge=58. fsck. its a DFI nforce 2 400 ultra, rev b. its just got a passive hs on it atm i'm tired. any ideas on how to cool it down? i think i might have to make a 4th waterblock for it. fsk it. any ideas where i could buy a very small waterblock? one that it ver light and has no fittinh hardware? i'm going to bed. nigth all __________________ A8N-SLI Deluxe FX55@3ghz 2x TwinX1024-3200XL 2x BFG6800Ultra Audigy2 ZS + Gigaworks S750 2x120gb/4x80gb lots of water/copper/pumpy goodness.

01-10-2004, 05:54 PM	#2
j813 Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: southeast asia Posts: 164	How did you measure the SB, does it have a BIOS temp reading? Do you use or have a SPDIF connection for your sound? I think NF2's SBs create because of this add-ons and other capabilities. Glad to hear sombody gettin serious about this, I thought I was too much. Last edited by j813; 01-12-2004 at 04:56 AM.

01-11-2004, 04:04 AM	#3
guandi Cooling Savant Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: UK Posts: 174	mesured it with a thermometer with a little dab of Arctice silver on the end its quite accurate, to within 3'c usually. i just tried playing Iront Storm (for the first time, i quite like it ) and about 15 mins into it the comp crashed, so i checked the temps, and the southbridge was nearly at 80'c i am going to use the northbridge heatsink (with a corner cut off so that it fits snugly) with a fan mounted on the edge of my gfx card (its a gf fx 5950 ultra, it needs all the fans it can get, lol) when my watercooling for the cpu/nb/gpu gets here. althought, without the heastink on the northbridge, it doesnt get nearly as hot as the southbridge with its heatsink. (dont try that at home kids, i kept my finger on it at all times and if it were to overheat, i had a heatsink that i had left in the freezer ready to slap on it to give me abough time to shutdown) maybe i will see if there is a way that i could secure a waterblock to the southbridge, the only thing that i'm worried about is the weight and pressure from the tubing, as there is no way of physically attaching a heastink without glue of some kind. :shrug: hrm. i'm gonna have a think and a mess about with a load of random heasinks etc. and get back to you on this one. __________________ A8N-SLI Deluxe FX55@3ghz 2x TwinX1024-3200XL 2x BFG6800Ultra Audigy2 ZS + Gigaworks S750 2x120gb/4x80gb lots of water/copper/pumpy goodness.

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