Northbridge cooling?
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Northbridge cooling will only help if your FSB limited on the motherboard rather than the CPU then it may help sustain a higher FSB
All depends on what chipset ur using, P31,P35,P41,P43,P45 generally run a lot cooler then X38/X48.
It also depends on what sort of cooling it has on it allready, if just a standard normal heatsink then maybe a better aftermarked one may be better.
But if you have heatpipe cooling on the mosfets, and chipsets, that should be more then enough.
As an example my Msi P35 Neo2 FR, uses heatpipe cooling so a lot better then just standard heatsinks, even when im really pushing my mobo, with 500+ fsb, and 1.4/1.5v on the north bridge, iv never yet seen it go above 40c.
Generally temps range from 30c all the way upto 60c depending on chipset and cooling of it, so unless ur going well over 60c i would'nt worry.
It also depends on what sort of cooling it has on it allready, if just a standard normal heatsink then maybe a better aftermarked one may be better.
But if you have heatpipe cooling on the mosfets, and chipsets, that should be more then enough.
As an example my Msi P35 Neo2 FR, uses heatpipe cooling so a lot better then just standard heatsinks, even when im really pushing my mobo, with 500+ fsb, and 1.4/1.5v on the north bridge, iv never yet seen it go above 40c.
Generally temps range from 30c all the way upto 60c depending on chipset and cooling of it, so unless ur going well over 60c i would'nt worry.
The SilentPipe cooling on my EX38-DS5 is utter crap. Since adding crossfire it overheats the X38 in minutes when stressing the cpu. Have had to add a fan to it for now to cool it. I need to sort out the cooling realy with something decent as even knocking the gmch voltage up a notch to +0.075 is enough to send it over the edge and freeze the system under heavy load.
I have a temp sensor jammed into the heatsink and its saying 40-45 deg c under heavy cpu load (priming)(even with fan blowing on it). Seems with this board I get Overclock or Crossfire. Having Both is extra work
I have a temp sensor jammed into the heatsink and its saying 40-45 deg c under heavy cpu load (priming)(even with fan blowing on it). Seems with this board I get Overclock or Crossfire. Having Both is extra work
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As above, if you are running high FSB, or in fact even if you run 4 banks of RAM it can make a big difference.
Equally if not more important is good PWM (Mosfet) chipset cooling. These can get very very toasty when clocking quads. My old IN9-32X Max had ridiculous PWM temps over 115c until I modified the heatsink and attached a fan. Temps no higher than 70 IIRC after the mod, which is a huge difference.
The IP35 Pro boards are the same, they need the heatsink modified to keep the PWM temps under control too.
What board are you running?
Equally if not more important is good PWM (Mosfet) chipset cooling. These can get very very toasty when clocking quads. My old IN9-32X Max had ridiculous PWM temps over 115c until I modified the heatsink and attached a fan. Temps no higher than 70 IIRC after the mod, which is a huge difference.
The IP35 Pro boards are the same, they need the heatsink modified to keep the PWM temps under control too.
What board are you running?
I would guess you need to run 1.5 - 1.55v on the Northbridge to keep that amount of RAM stable at a decent FSB.. so it will probably get warm, however that board should be quite happy up to around 450mhz FSB on a Quad... That range of Asus boards were generally quite happy clocking with 4 sticks of RAM