chip fan cooling

ColEx · 28 Apr 2007 at 16:47

hey OC'ers. I just got a passive heatsink for my northbridge chip as the fan that was on it borked... anyway i was just wondering what temps should the chip be at?.. its at 45 now when im just browsing the interwebs and on msn and stuff... but when im playing games it rise's to 55.. is this ok?.. never had a passive heatsink to cool anything before.. just wondering if this is ok?

edit: blah.. just noticed i put chip fan cooling as title.. its just chip cooling

thanks, alex

PhillyDee · 28 Apr 2007 at 18:08

Well, my NB on my DS3 runs at 65 Degrees. So im guessing its fine. Thats passivley cooled and comes as such.

Phil2008 · 29 Apr 2007 at 01:27

Ive just changed mine too, for a Thermalright HR-05 SLI Chipset Cooler (passive) cos Im still using a nforce 4 board and cant use a chipset fan cos there too thick, and the graphics card wouldnt sit in right.... What a stupid design hey?

khemist · 29 Apr 2007 at 01:35

PhillyDee - what are you using to check your nb temps?

khemist · 29 Apr 2007 at 01:54

I'm using Everest Ultimate Edition 2007 and "motherboard" temp is 44 with evercool vc-re (i'm assuming that's nb temp) - used one of these on my old dfi Sli-DR as well as the DS3 with great results.