P5N-E SLI cooling

robgti · 21 Feb 2008 at 18:57

Hi everyone i have just been getting a P5N-E SLI motherboard and have heard a lot about the southbridge chip getting really hot so could anyone recommend me a cooler for it that will fit and also is it worth changing the northbridge one aswell? thanks

Minstadave · 21 Feb 2008 at 19:00

Its the northbridge chipset that gets hot when overclocking, the southbridge is not so bad iirc (I had this board a while back).

I'd pop a decent cooler like one of the thermalright northbridge coolers on the NB and a cheap zalman passive cooler on the SB.

steve258 · 21 Feb 2008 at 19:02

When I had mine I got a £5 zalman NB heatsink (the blue one) installed on southbridge. It can do without one but I put it on just for peace of mind. For NB I just took it off and applied AS5 then add a slow fan pointing at the HS.

robgti · 21 Feb 2008 at 19:04

wow fast answers cheers. id rather not just point a fan at it as im trying to keep the case tidy but if i have to end up doing it thats fine. Thanks

reflux · 22 Feb 2008 at 20:57

I stuck the predecessor to this on my northbridge:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-045-TR&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=399

My pc was stable but the new sink would still get very hot, so I would recommend a fan. I put a cheap sink on southbridge, which prevented the PC from locking up in films which it did now and then.

spp · 23 Feb 2008 at 19:34

I have this bored and am also interested in better cooling for the NB and some for the SB. How does one attach a heat sink to the south bridge, in other words what does the heat sink attach itself to?

Minstadave · 23 Feb 2008 at 20:28

spp said:
I have this bored and am also interested in better cooling for the NB and some for the SB. How does one attach a heat sink to the south bridge, in other words what does the heat sink attach itself to?

Asus kindly put standard NB mounting holes around the SB so you can attach a normal NB heatsink via pushpins.