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The northbridge on my ASRock N68C-GS FX has been getting super hot, and I was curious if there was a better cooling solution for it, that is super quiet (my rig is near inaudible ATM). Any ideas? And I'm not gonna buy a fan to point at it. It's ghetto enough.

 

NOTE: I'll also need to know how to replace it.

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Not sure there are aftermarket solutions for this. Like you said the only option is to mount a fan to it and it's the only option i would recommend. You could take it off and check to see if it uses thermal paste. If it does, replace it.

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The northbridge on my ASRock N68C-GS FX has been getting super hot, and I was curious if there was a better cooling solution for it, that is super quiet (my rig is near inaudible ATM). Any ideas? And I'm not gonna buy a fan to point at it. It's ghetto enough.

 

NOTE: I'll also need to know how to replace it.

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have you tried replacing the thermal adhesive with something a little better that what they include stock.  Sometimes its really not that great.

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Check thermal pads/ thermal paste and increase airflow in your case. A bigger fan on your CPU cooler can provide more irflow around that are too. Other than that increase the case airflow by making your case more open or increase fan speed/ add fans

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Not sure there are aftermarket solutions for this. Like you said the only option is to mount a fan to it and it's the only option i would recommend. You could take it off and check to see if it uses thermal paste. If it does, replace it.

It does, but the heatsink is too damn dinky to even be effective. I might see if a heatsink from one of my old P4 boards will fit...

Check thermal pads/ thermal paste and increase airflow in your case. A bigger fan on your CPU cooler can provide more irflow around that are too. Other than that increase the case airflow by making your case more open or increase fan speed/ add fans

There's actually a bit of air going over it, from my TX3 (it blows out the side).

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It does, but the heatsink is too damn dinky to even be effective. I might see if a heatsink from one of my old P4 boards will fit...

Yeah maybe. From looking at pictures of it, it looks more like a southbidge heatsink. What where Asrock thinking?

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Yeah maybe. From looking at pictures of it, it looks more like a southbidge heatsink. What where Asrock thinking?

I'll see if one of my old P4 boards can "loan" a heatsink to it.

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It sounds like bad airflow but since you got that covered idk, maybe a bad thermal pad.

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The northbridge on my ASRock N68C-GS FX has been getting super hot, and I was curious if there was a better cooling solution for it, that is super quiet (my rig is near inaudible ATM). Any ideas? And I'm not gonna buy a fan to point at it. It's ghetto enough.

 

NOTE: I'll also need to know how to replace it.

Check this list.......http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l3/g40/c16/s500/list/p1/Air_Cooling-Chipset_HeatsinksCoolers-Northbridge-Page1.html?o=title_az and see if anything would work for you. You can also e-mail them for their recommendations.

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Zalman makes makes some northbridge heatsinks. Have a look at the Zalman ZM-NB47J and ZM-NBF47, these will fit on your motherboard and doesn't really cost much.

 

Edit: Found this on Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835708003

This shoud be a really good northbridge cooler and will cool ALOT better than the one that comes with the motherboard. I'm pretty sure this one will fit, but you can measure it, if you want to be sure.

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