Northbridge coolers

stannous

stannous

stannous

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Hi,
Anybody ever achieved a significant increase in overclock by upgrading their mobo`s northbridge cooler? I`,ve got a cheap (but not completely nasty) 650i based board and the northbridge on that gets hot enough to fry an egg,shutting down the system over 381mhz :(
Any help/informed opinions appreciated.
 
Ive got a 650i board and my NB cooler used to get stupidly hot alos. I just positioned a 80mm fan in my case so it blew over the cooler. The temps dropped loads.
 
Checks link,checks Noctua website,reaches for wallet,realises not paid until friday :rolleyes:
Think one of these will be on order come monday,if there`s no improvement in fsb,at least it`s quiet (and it sure does look purdy :D )
 
stannous said:
It`s an option to be sure (cheap as well).Question is,did it help your o/clock
(assuming you are)
cheers
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I think it did help yeah. I was stuck at 2.something Ghz.When i added the fan i managed to get it to 3.1Ghz and not bothered pushing it any further.
 
Reseating, Reapplying thermalpaste and placing a 70mm fan on it, dropped 10*c off my RD600 chipset's Northbridge temps under load and max FSB has gone up from ~450FSB to 485FSB. Still yet to push it further. :)

The more I can squeeze out, the better as I'm using an E6300 CPU. Looking at replacing the NB cooler with a HR05 non SLI when I am less skint.

Mul
 
Noctua's excellent and is very secure once fitted.

Had it on a 680i with no fan and it was fine. you'd have to have one hot chipset to push it beyond it's limits i'd imagine!

gt
 
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