What temp does your North bridge run at?

[mkessler9]

Ok so I was just stress testing my cpu and noticed my northbridge was running at 65C while my cpu was running at 35C. I'm using CPUID HWMonitor to see the temps. I touched the northbridge heatsink to make sure it wasn't a bad reading and sure enough it was how to the touch. Its not the greatest motherboard its $90 on newegg and has a amd 6300. I was wondering what temps your north bridge runs at when it's Cpu is and isn't being stress tested. After I turned off Prime 95 it cooled down to 54C but I still find this a little warm. So is this normal? What are your northbridge temps on your motherboard?

[kizoku_95]

North bridges run super hot if not adequately cooled !!!

[jscho]

About 60c when I'm stress testing my CPU which is overclocked.

[tS_kStin]

If the NB is TMPIN2 then 34c with 3770k OC'd to 4.3 under full load.

[Faa]

About 60c when I'm stress testing my CPU which is overclocked.

You can't monitor that temp on Intel. There's no northbridge anymore. You can only monitor the south bridge.

[Blade of Grass]

IIRC, North Bridges don't exist any more (at least for Intel). They moved it onto the processor (north bridge is the memory controller).

 

Are you maybe touching the VRM heatsink? Or the South Bridge?

[jscho]

You can't monitor that temp on Intel. There's no northbridge anymore. You can only monitor the south bridge.

 

It's the highest temp my motherboard gets to, so I threw that temp in.

[mkessler9]

IIRC, North Bridges don't exist any more (at least for Intel). They moved it onto the processor (north bridge is the memory controller).

 

Are you maybe touching the VRM heatsink? Or the South Bridge?

I have a amd cpu

[samuel]

Ok so I was just stress testing my cpu and noticed my northbridge was running at 65C while my cpu was running at 35C. I'm using CPUID HWMonitor to see the temps. I touched the northbridge heatsink to make sure it wasn't a bad reading and sure enough it was how to the touch. Its not the greatest motherboard its $90 on newegg and has a amd 6300. I was wondering what temps your north bridge runs at when it's Cpu is and isn't being stress tested. After I turned off Prime 95 it cooled down to 54C but I still find this a little warm. So is this normal? What are your northbridge temps on your motherboard?

On AM3+ motherboards, the NB heatsync will be very hot, sometimes untouchable. Do not worry, that particular chip is designet to stay 105 degreeds C for 5+ years. You CAN undervolt the NB (not the CPU-NB) but beware that you can corrupt your windows installation. You should backup your files or use a spare HDD and install a trial windows on it. Undervolting from 1.100v to 1.050v will significantly lower you temps. 1050v is lowest undervolt my motherboard can do when installing fx 8 core. I have had a phenom 2 in wich case 0.840v on MB NB was stable. My motherboard doesn't have a sensor for it's NB, but you can measure the diff using your finger.

[Dr. Strangelove]

I've had boards with NB temperatures of 70°C and above.

I changed the thermal paste (lowering temps about 6°C).

 

Yes, it may piss you off to have a nice silent cool running system and NB temps are 86°C.

But nowadays I would not mind. Those chips are designed for high temps.

[StormtrooperStu]

50°C ish under full load folding.

 

It's the VRM's that need more cooling than the Northbridge.

[Guest Kefuren]

It's not bad on my PC, I'd say around 50-60c. I can keep my fingers there just fine, but it's definitely hot-ish. Nothing like the VRM though, seriously can't keep my hand there for more than like 5 seconds and even then it feels like I'm going to get a few burns from it...

 

I don't have anything to report the values of those sensors, as speedfan doesn't seem to detect them. Assuming there actually are sensors for that on this board.

 

This is all with Prime95 Small FFTs at 4GHz.

[Umeshwarnath]

my hardware monitor readings for tmpin1 have read 107degrees Celsius! i would assume those are northbridge readings!