chipset cooler bundle - need advice on this

[nork]

I want to see if I am on the right track here.
I bought a chipset cooler bundle. It comes with 2 heatsinks, 1 fan, and necessary fixings like thermal paste and thermal pads, clips.

there is a northbridge and a southbridge on any mobo so I can put a heat sink on each bridge or a heat sink on one bridge and the fan on the other, the largest one, and the other heatsink would just be extra? By the look of the heat sinks, you can't put a fan on top of them or can you? Is that how it works with these bundles or can you indeed put the fan over top the heat sink?


Appreciate the help here.

Thanks in advance,

Don

ps - If this is not the correct place for this post please pm or email me and let me know and I will move it. I am new here but it seems to be the right place to post this since it installs on and greatly affects motherboards?

I dont know how to get a pic up here. I have a digital camera and I took a pretty good quality pic which is now on my hard drive but I dont know how to put a link here so you can see the pic of all the stuff. Can someone help me out with this.

 

[nork]

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[nork]

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[Big Lar]

Well, You Can put a fan on any Heatsink/ just about anyhow. Specs of what you are intending to use it on would be helpfull, but IMHO, the Northbridge needs a Heatsink/ fan being optional depending on how high you overclock the board, and I have never seen the Southbridge get hot on any board I've had, as well as hearing of anyone else cooling it. Hope this helps.

 

[nork]

Guess that was a dumb question on my part.

thanks for being kind about it!

 

[Big Lar]

Not a dumb question at all, I've seen some dumb answers/ but not questions

 

[Drsignguy]

Originally posted by: nork
I dont know how to get a pic up here. I have a digital camera and I took a pretty good quality pic which is now on my hard drive but I dont know how to put a link here so you can see the pic of all the stuff. Can someone help me out with this.

Go to Webshots and upload your pics there. Go to where the photo section is and upload them there.

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My Pics. Enjoy!

 

[SunnyD]

Well, for the most part, no southbridge runs faster than 33MHz (the PCI bridge for most modern chipsets is in the southbridge now), so active cooling isn't really necessary. On top of that, I doubt you're going to find any mounting holes around the southbridge anyway - you'd have to use thermal epoxy to fix a heatsink on it.

Now the northbridge... most discrete northbridges (those without graphics cores embedded) are good with passive cooling (heatsink only). If you want some added stability for those 200MHz overclocking days, a fan will probably help you there.

As far as answering your question on where the fan mounts, it probably screws on somehow... some the screw actually threads itself between the fins on the heatsink.

Hope that helps.

 

[nork]

I pretty well have it figured out now. As well, I seem to remember seeing, on some boards, little holes near the northbridge and there are holes and little fasteners that would work with the little holes near the northbridge, and that is after the heat sink is put on.
So, on the southbridge, a heatsink and on the northbridge, a larger heatsink with or without a fan,depending on availability and need.
Thanks for the advice guys!
Don

 

[Blain]

The southbridge chip on my Iwill KK266R Plus is so hot that I can't hold my finger on it. And that's not even OC'd!
Could this southbridge heating be the cause of OC instability?
I'm not talking about my MB. My Iwill MB is rock solid at 148MHz FSB and running Windows 98SE even

 

[Technonut]

The ECS L7VTA KT400 mobo has a HS on the South Bridge.

Next up we see the interesting addition of a cooling over the VIA VT8235 South Bridge in the form of a black-colored passive heatsink. The vast majority of motherboards don't include South Bridge heatsinks, but clearly ECS thought it was necessary to do so. However the heatsink was hardly even warm after hours of testing, so we're not sure what to make of ECS's decision

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