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Is there any way to reduce the heat production of a motherboard north bridge chip?
Got an old MSI K7 Pro mobo with 600mhz Athlon. Never been the most stable system, but trying to hash some donation PCs together from spare parts ATM and it's falling over like a duck on an icy pond. To be fair, I'm loading it heavily (running Memtest86+) - but that's the point, it needs to be trouble free before I let it go, and am wondering if it's the cause of other previous hard to solve problems.
Obviously this treatment puts a lot of traffic through the northbridge, and during touchy-feely crash diagnosis I've found its ludicrously hot. It does have a heatsink on it, but it's in a stupid position, right under the support bar and main fan for the processor, so it's hard to get a fan on (i'm testing wedging a 486 fan in, but it blocks a RAM slot). Considering putting a metallic link between this HS and the main CPU one somehow!
Alternatively is there a way of slowing the thing down to reduce heat output? Other than reducing the FSB (it'll only go down to 90 from 100...
Thanks
7 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
If you have the ability in the bios, reduce the voltage slightly (only one or two notches). You probably won't be able to lower it by much though without getting stability issues. Also, by reducing the FSB, you are slowing down the processor as well. The frequency is only a minor player in the amount of heat generated. I would focus more on dissipating the heat better rather than reducing it.
You may want to consider a better thermal interface such as some arctic silver 5. Northbridge chips generally run pretty hot, I wouldn't worry too much about it. If the heatsink is clean, just make sure the case has good air throughput and you will be fine.
- 1 decade ago
Are you sure the heat sink actually has enough thermal paste between the CPU and heat sink? I t has been known to wear out/dry out over time and with heat.
Installing a case fan and pointing it at the CPU is another solution
- Anonymous4 years ago
i do no longer think of it makes any difference - apart from the motherboard producer. the single chip may be low fee and make motherboard layout much less complicated. in spite of if the single chip produced extra warmth, the motherboard producer can compensate by employing employing a bigger warmth sink or by employing employing a blend heatsink/fan.
- 1 decade ago
add fans too the case in my computers with i have 6 all have 4 fans too keep the case cool the mother board cool and the hard drives cool too the only thing you will have to do is make sure that the are flow in allot you might need too drill hole on too case
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- 1 decade ago
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