north bridge temp?

[breadturbo]

evening again all

ive got my comp slightly overclicked now its
146 @ 2.5ghz freezer pro 64
4gb ocz pc4000
x850 xt pe 256mb
asrock dual sata mobo

thing is cpu idles at 22c goes to about 35 on full need for speeding
but north bridge gets real hot, everest says its only 28c but its too hot for me to put my hand on it, i clocked it back down to stock 2ghz till i can get some feedback, better cooling needed?

2nd thing for some reason when i start it up on a morning it sont do a thing, everything powers up but no signal to monitor, i have to leave it liek this for 2mins to get warm then reset and its perfect straight to windows

ideas? thanks

 

[Defcon5]

If its too hot to touch then it cant be 28c

Whats the chipset voltage at?

 

[breadturbo]

ive searched through the whol bios and cant find any chipset voltage options anywhere

i reset it all to stock so i wouldnt have thought it was anything bad, i upgraded it to bios version 1.6 (latest) a week ago but i dont reckon its that

maybe i should scrap it and buy a DFI lol

 

[Defcon5]

Are you sure its not the voltage regulators or pwm-somethings that your touching? They get very hot (had mine over 80c)

 

[breadturbo]

yeah 99% the great big silver thing just under the cpu hehe

 

[james.miller]

mmm passive chipsets do ten do get a little toasty. especially nf4 varients. If your worried, have a look into putting an active cooler on there

 

[Raikiri]

Those coolers used on asrock boards do tend to get pretty warm even when the chipset is fine... could always fit a 40mm fan to it.

I think your CPU cooler is the wrong way round BTW Oh and 4gb of ram? Overkill and lower performance.

 

[breadturbo]

oops, guess ill have to turn it round hehe

i just bought a new mobo anyhow a nifty abit fatality thing with this cool uguru front panel

figured id get rid of the agp bit having no need for it