975x northbridge cooling question

[ryrynz]

Hi there,

I just removed the northbridge cooler from my Asus p5W deluxe motherboard to apply AS5 and I removed the tape foam edge that around the heatsink that sits on the small capacitors and resistors on the northbridge chip package.
My question is will placing the northbridge cooler back on the chip cause a possible short when touching these smaller parts? I was considering placing PVC tape where the foam
tape used to be so these don't contact with the cooler directly.

Thanks.

 

[yh125d]

Are you replacing the OEM heatsink with a new one? If so, the new one should come with a pad to put around the edge. If not, try to re-use the original pad.

 

[ryrynz]

not replacing it, just cleaning it up. I have never seen a northbridge cooler come with tape before.

UPDATE: used PVC tape and added a 40mm fan on 7V to cool it down just in case it got hot enough under there around the northbridge to cause the PVC tape to melt any.
This fan is almost silent and should hopefully lead me to pass the 375 odd Mhz FSB barrier I have on this board.

Would still love to know the answer to my question above. Anyone here put a northbridge cooler on a 965 or 975 board or anything else for that matter with tiny capacitors etc near the die with no heatspreader on top?

 

[dust]

I'm about to try that myself. Dunno the answer to your question but I found some directions on how to do this properly here:

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view...page=1&SLanguage=en-us