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    Spicker's Avatar AKA jaigandhi5 BT Rep: +7BT Rep +7
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    k as the topic says...my Northbridge is overheating its at 49 C at full load
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    ever sinse i got this motherboard my temps for the NB hav been high like in the 30s and stuff...now its almost summer and its getting warm outside and the temp is jumping!


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    ASUS P4P8X (865p NB chipset) http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/...e/overview.htm#
    P4 1.9Ghz @ 2.1Ghz
    512 Dual Channel DDR @ 266mhz
    Nvidia Fx5600
    80gig hdd


    motherboard looks exactly like tht..

    also im really low on budget

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    Does your northbridge have a cooling fan or just a heatsink?

    Maybe the heat isn't being transfered properly. Is the heatsink hot to the touch?

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    thats not the northbridge.

    in fact, i dont believe the northbridge ever has a temp sensor on it (correct me if im wrong.)

    are you positive that this is the northbridge? does it say that in ur mobo manual? otherwise its just the ambient case temp. (thats what mine is, and all the other mobos i dealt with are...)


    however, 49° is not a bad thing; unless that temp came during idle operation... just find a more efficient wat to move air around your case...

    turns out that you can probably use a bulky AGP card and not have any problem from what i see... :-)


    paging clocker to the service desk...

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    yes it is the northbrige cuz it is hot to the touch....
    and yes it is a BIG heat sink

    lol 49C ambient case? whoa B)

    and one more thing the case is open...

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    Originally posted by jaigandhi5@11 May 2004 - 19:13
    yes it is the northbrige cuz it is hot to the touch....
    and yes it is a BIG heat sink

    lol 49C ambient case? whoa B)
    thats what mine always is... rofl


    ok well if its hot then lets deal with it!



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    umm one more thing..lol i cant buy from newegg...

    i am CANADIAN

    http://canadacomputers.com/cooling.html#cas

    find a cheap one there...

    but..isnt there any other way i too lazy to pay money


    btw u wudnt belive wt happen today...

    i cleaned my cpu heat sink (took it out) and then i was dun and put it back but...i forgot to plug the cpu fan power cable.... lol

    i booted in to the windows loading thing and then im like its...too quiet and boom it hit tht i fogot to plug the wire in!! then i turned the main switch off the psu plugged it in...

    and luckily no harm done (got really lucky today)

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    did u put on some new thermal paste after taking off the heatsync? usually temps go a lot higher cause there won't be good contact.

    anyway, ur not overclocking are you? if so, unOC it.

    if that isnt it, then I think you should get some arctic silver 5, if u dont already have, and remove your northbridge cooler, then clean off the old thermal paste\pad and apply a little bit of arctic silver.

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    Originally posted by ROSSCO_2004+11 May 2004 - 19:29--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (ROSSCO_2004 &#064; 11 May 2004 - 19:29)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>did u put on some new thermal paste after taking off the heatsync? usually temps go a lot higher cause there won&#39;t be good contact.

    anyway, ur not overclocking are you? if so, unOC it.

    if that isnt it, then I think you should get some arctic silver 5, if u dont already have, and remove your northbridge cooler, then clean off the old thermal paste&#092;pad and apply a little bit of arctic silver.[/b]

    he is OCing

    <!--QuoteBegin-jaigandhi5
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    Originally posted by ROSSCO_2004@12 May 2004 - 01:29
    did u put on some new thermal paste after taking off the heatsync? usually temps go a lot higher cause there won&#39;t be good contact.

    anyway, ur not overclocking are you? if so, unOC it.

    if that isnt it, then I think you should get some arctic silver 5, if u dont already have, and remove your northbridge cooler, then clean off the old thermal paste&#092;pad and apply a little bit of arctic silver.
    yea i was thinkin about the same thing

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