Northbridge cooling?

[GoogalyMoogaly]

It seems like all I do on these forums is ask questions. Sorry about that!

Anyway, here we go again.
I've got a Gigabyte 880GM-UD2H running a Phenom II X6 1055T overclocked to 3.8GHz. Now I'm not good with overclocking so I bought the pre-overclocked bundle from OcUK. Correct me if I'm wrong but the northbridge gets overclocked along with the other thing right?

I'm planning/hoping to have the cpu and gpu water-cooled but I didn't think about the northbridge so that'll be left with the default cooling.

When I initially started the PC up with air cooling (Titan Fenrir) to check it worked (before I fitted all the water stuff) I noticed in HWMonitor that the 3 temps it gives (not the cores) were about 60C on the cpu and what I'm guessing was the northbridge after only a minute of Prime 95. (admittedly I didn't have much airflow through the case, as I had the side of the case off.

What sort of temps can the northbridge run at safely?

 

[Big.Wayne]

Hello GoogalyMoogaly

I bought the pre-overclocked bundle from OcUK. Correct me if I'm wrong but the northbridge gets overclocked along with the other thing right?

The main Northbridge functions have been integrated into the CPU now (CPU-NB/IMC) so you don't need any additional cooling . . . the CPU-NB has its own multiplier so can be independent of the main processor OverClock . . .

The Northbridge chip on the board only really gets used for graphics now (IGP) and should run fairly cool unless you OverClock/OverVolt it . . .

Have you bought the WaterCooling stuff already or?

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

The main Northbridge functions have been integrated into the CPU now (CPU-NB/IMC) so you don't need any additional cooling

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Have you bought the WaterCooling stuff already or?

Hi Big.Wayne
Thanks for explaining that, guess that would explain why the 2 temps were so close, if they're on the same chip!

Yes, water-cooling has been bought and is currently leak testing.
Piccys here.