[Khledar]

Well I've read it and I don't have a tonne of advice, I've never run a pelt setup and I have no clue how hot 110f is, and the rest is in C so... But...

I have an Abit IC7 and I just replaced the Northbrdige HSF unit. Since i bought this mobo a while ago, it had the first rev. HSF unit on the NB. This thing SUCKS! It's like a Pentium 166HSF cut down to 1/2 the size. The fan on it is loud (compared to the rest of my system, in which I think only one really quiet fan is the only fan running above 7v). So I thought, no need to WC it's just NB - so I stuck a K6-2 450mhz stock HSF on there , planning to run it passively - no go, this thing was roasting! and that was with a silicone/AS2 TIM joint! Well I settle with the easiest thing; I positioned an 80mm panaflo at 7V in the area, which I think will also help some of the caps/etc near the CPU cool down as they were getting to the point of burning hot, just see the MAX3 cooling solution, up there all those things, mosfets/caps etc were absolutely burnin, I expect CPU HSF air was intended to help cool them. When WCing that's no present to lotsa heat.


If you have a WC loop running I don't see a reason to pelt the NB -it's hot but not THAT hot - dunno what others think though, they might have more pelt experience.