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Unread 04-27-2003, 03:23 PM   #1
zoson
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Default Northbridge cooling, Again.

Ok, so those of you who know my system also know that I've been battling with the issue of whether or not watercooling the northbridge is useful when it is contained on the same loop as a cpu, and a gpu. Well, today is quite a warm day in nyc, and of course my computer is running at a higher temperature than normal. This is also causing a drastic increase in my coolant temp, and now my northbridge is definately being heated by the 'coolant' rather than cooled by it.
So here is what I was thinking of doing. I have a stock geforce4 cooler here for the asus gf4ti4600. It's circular, and fairly large. It has an axial blower setup, and is basically like an enlarged, copper version of the stock abit nf7-s 1.2 nbridge heatsink. How effective do you think this cooler would be for a northbridge? Pretty good if it was designed to handle the heat load of a gpu right?
Let me know what you guys think.
-Zoson
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