Changing northbridge heatsink on gigabyte ud5

I don't know of any after-market ones that are likely to make a big difference, why not just point a fan at it?

Ek do a really beautiful northbridge block if your budget will stretch to it. Sensible choice since you'll have to replace the sb and mosfet coolers as well, since they're all attached together
 
JonJ678 said:
I don't know of any after-market ones that are likely to make a big difference, why not just point a fan at it?

Ek do a really beautiful northbridge block if your budget will stretch to it. Sensible choice since you'll have to replace the sb and mosfet coolers as well, since they're all attached together
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are they not just waterblocks tho, i dont have watercooling, i have a fan on stuck on the nb but didnt make any difference.
 
Yeah, by 'stretch your budget' I meant a radiator and pump as well.

Do you have a photo? Looking at mind it's beautifully set up for the intel stock cpu fan but not so good for tower heatsinks. You need a fan blowing horizontally through the fins (horizontal meaning parallel to board), one blowing down from above will do little
 
So you've strapped a fan blowing air directly onto the solid blue bit instead of to somewhere it can blow through the fins of the heatsink. There's your problem, move the fan.

Id move the graphics card down to the second x16 slot in order to get some space, then point a fan at the fins rather than at the shiny blue plate. You may have considerable luck mounting a 120mm fan blowing down on the corsair block from 3 or 4 cm above it, the air will be go down eithe side of the block and out through the fins on the mosfets and nb sink. They're all tied together, so cooling as many of them as possible is the way to go
 
I did have the fan 60mm fan pointing across the mobo, also the top 120mm 1900rpm fan pushes air down across the mobo. still no better. i think a change of case is probably the way to go. putting the gpu in the second x16 slot means the heat from the psu affects that instead. Its a nightmare. Thinking of getting a coolermaster atcs 840, which should have superior airflow than the cosmos 1000.
 
just found my through everest sat at 55 on a oc @4.2 so not to bad then.
am on water so might price up the cooling block for it
thanx for info
 
If blowing a fan across the heatsink makes no difference then my first thought would be that the heatsink isn't making good contact with the northbridge. Either reseat the northbridge cooler with something non-capacitative like MX-2 (don't use AS5, it is slightly capacitative and could cause problems if it bridges two close proximity electrical paths, which are commonly found on motherboards and graphics cards) or RMA the board.
 
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Good point by wja96. Reseating is definitely worth a try. Take the push pins out (difficult, but ok if you go slowly), clean off the probably loads of crap on the blocks, apply mx2 then reattach with screws. I'm pretty sure I used M2, but it may have been M2.5. Its difficult to tell with a ruler. Use a paper os silicon washer between board and screw just for good measure

If people have the northbridge sat at 60 degrees for 4ghz it may be worth water cooling after all. That's high enough for stability to be starting to suffer. Cost is £100 +/- 5 for the ek blocks I have my eye on, picture here though I'd want the black version
 
WJA96 said:
If blowing a fan across the heatsink makes no difference then my first thought would be that the heatsink isn't making good contact with the northbridge. Either reseat the northbridge cooler with something non-conductive like MX-2 (don't use AS5, it could conduct electricity in a bad way, but it's unlikely) or RMA the board.
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Sorry to be contradictory but.

As5 does not conduct electricity.
 
Everything conducts electricity. Absolutely everything.

Arctic silver conducts better than mx2, so use mx2 where electrical conductivity is potentially a problem. Better to be safe than sorry.
 
Well i composed my answer then changed my mind.

If you want i can change this thread into..................but i know better than you so i wont.

AS5 does not conduct electricity It is thermally conductive. Just not electrically conductive.
And i can just boost my post count with answers to you bad arguement,if you wish to continue.
 
You're so fundamentally wrong that I don't know where to start. Do you not understand 'everything conducts electricity'? With some effort I could post a picture of a hole blown through a concrete wall by lightening. You're suggesting that were the wall covered in a thin layer of as5 it would be unhurt.

Its not very conductive, relative to copper. It is very conductive, relative to vacuum. Crucially it is more electrically conductive than mx2, as it has bits of silver in which rather decrease the resistance to electricity. So while you will probably be fine using it on chipsets, it offers no advantage over mx2 and offers the disadvantage of being more electrically conductive.

Your post fails.
 
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