Cooling northbridge?

9761 · 29 Jan 2006 at 19:10

Hi,

I have the abit IC7-Max 2 motherboard and I would like to overclock my CPU later, but also I would like to make it quiet.

Could I take off the northbridge fan and leave it as it is and overclock or would I have to put a zalman heatsink on it?
If I have to have the zalman on the motherboard is there any way to get it to stay on as on the motherboard it has 4 loops whereas the zlman needs to holes with rivets to secure it down?

thanks

PieEater · 29 Jan 2006 at 21:10

If the coolers weren't required I don't think that the manufacturers would put them on, certainly if you're going to be stressing the motherboard by overclocking you should have a heatsink on it of some sort.

Check out the AS Thermal Epoxy, if you don't want a permanent bond then you can add some AS5;

Raikiri · 29 Jan 2006 at 21:27

I saw someone fit a zalman cooler to an IC7 northbridge, isnt there a ring around the original cooler with the 4 screw holes that holds the actual heatsink in place?
They just fitted the zalman through that and connected it the same way the old one was

9761 · 29 Jan 2006 at 21:41

my current one is held in by 2 clips that hing onto 4 loops.

heres a pic of what I mean.

Big.Wayne · 29 Jan 2006 at 21:53

I used some Thermalright NB-1 and NB-1C's to sort out the P4 northbridges, they fit using the 4-hook/loop retention mechanism on INTEL mobos!

May be hard to buy them now though?

Raikiri · 29 Jan 2006 at 22:02

Yeah looks like the retention socket 775 boards use, geta cooler compatible with that (CM coolblue 2 thingy) or alternatively use epoxy like pie eater said.