Should my Northbridge be ok?

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I have an Asus A8N-E and have just fitted a Zalman NB47J passive heatsink to the Northbridge as the standard h/s has a very noisy fan. I am using a Antec Sonata II case with an extra 120mm fan fitted at the front and was wondering if this is going to be good enough to keep my northbridge cool. I am currently overclocking my Opteron 165 to 2.47Ghz using a Arctic Freezer 64 on my cpu. My current temps at idle are 41c CPU, and 34c Mobo.
 
It should be fine. If in doubt try placing a fan pushing air over the sink.

Bridge temp is fine up to about 50, then you should start worrying.
 
I use one on my DFI Ultra-D, with a silent fan blowing over it I rarely see over 35 degrees, which is 20 degrees less than the stock sink.
 
Mikey1280 said:
What happened to the 3ghz then, did it need too many volts, you still on water?
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Still on water, changed CPUs about 4 times since that sig :) This chip is good for 3ghz, just haven't had time to tweak it yet, so just dialed in a healthy 2.8ghz until I get time to sort it.

Still on water, but now with an X1800XT 512mb in the loop. And my Ballistix died, so I'll replace that when I have some money.
 
Mikey1280 said:
Sounds good mate, are you going to be jumping on the dual core bandwagon anytime soon, I'm contemplating it.
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I'm not in a rush at the moment, when it first came out I was tempted for the newness factor. Right now though the only real use is encoding, in gaming only SLI setups see any real benefit from dual core.

Until I see some tangible benefit, I'll hold off, I'll either buy a cheap S939 Opteron 165 when AM2 and Conroe come out, or just blow a load of cash and get a Conroe/Merom system.
 
Minstadave whats the stepping of your Opty 144? I just picked one up for a good price and Im hoping I could get up around the 2.8-3ghz range.

Mine is CAB1E 0614DPCW.
 
gr1mey said:
Minstadave whats the stepping of your Opty 144? I just picked one up for a good price and Im hoping I could get up around the 2.8-3ghz range.

Mine is CAB1E 0614DPCW.
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Mines an older one, a CAB2E 0540, that stepping should be quite good though, its very new silicon and everything seems to be hitting around 2.8Ghz really.
 
yeah cool, I did a google on it and most peeps seem to be hitting over the 2.8 mark..

cant wait to get it on my mobo - Im an overclocking newbie but I should get the hang of it, unfortunately I just dont think my 3200+ is anywhere near up to scratch on overclock, most I managed is 110mhz. but then again I could be doing something wrong!
 
gr1mey said:
yeah cool, I did a google on it and most peeps seem to be hitting over the 2.8 mark..

cant wait to get it on my mobo - Im an overclocking newbie but I should get the hang of it, unfortunately I just dont think my 3200+ is anywhere near up to scratch on overclock, most I managed is 110mhz. but then again I could be doing something wrong!
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A 3200 venice should really be clocking better than that, the most likely culprit is your motherboard, personally I hate Gigabyte motherboards, and I've had the one you have and it was buggy and annoying for the most part.
 
yer I know cant wait to be rid of it and Im gonna buy an Ultra-D.

just hope this SFF system I built sells on the bay when I put it up - its a nice little spec so I should do OK with it.

Opty 144 with AC Silencer
1gb Ballistix
Biostar 6100
x800xl with AC Silencer

all in a nice little mATX tower I resurrected with some matt black spraypaint :p
 
Viral said:
I have an Asus A8N-E and have just fitted a Zalman NB47J passive heatsink to the Northbridge as the standard h/s has a very noisy fan. I am using a Antec Sonata II case with an extra 120mm fan fitted at the front and was wondering if this is going to be good enough to keep my northbridge cool. I am currently overclocking my Opteron 165 to 2.47Ghz using a Arctic Freezer 64 on my cpu. My current temps at idle are 41c CPU, and 34c Mobo.
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The mobo temp is NOT your northbridge temp, ive have the same mobo and been using the zalman on the chipset for about a week with no problems.

Asus say the Mobo temp can go up to 60C

If u have any movement of air in your case at all the zalman should suffice, i persoannly ripped the fan from the stock NB coller and glued it to side of zalman, then stepped voltage down with an adaptor kit that came with the 120mm fan i stuck on the Xp-120
 
Well I do have quite a lot of air moving through the case as the front 120mm fan pushes 53CFM and it is pretty close to the Northbridge.
 
Cool I am glad to hear it should be ok as there is no temperature measuring device on my Northbridge.
 
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