Heatsink cooling on a MSI Pro2a

[caenus]

I have a MSI Pro2a, but it has the same layout as the Pro and Pro2. Has anyone pulled off the golden heatsink on the northbridge and either added arctic silver, or possibly a blue orb chipset cooler? Or perhaps something else? I'm very interested in adding some arctic silver, but don't want to ruin the northbridge by yanking the HS off.

 

[turtle219]

its not held down by any adhesive or anything, at least mine wasn't, i just took out the white pins, wiped off the thermal grease (it had a lot!) and i put on a blorb w/ artic silver with super glue on the corners... hopefully the super glue will hold... even though i didn't on my g200... haha
the blorb is a tight fit, its fits... but its really close to the ram

 

[caenus]

Have you noticed any improvement in stability or higher FSB speeds? Is it worth doing? Perhaps I can just take off the HS, clean up the grease, and put some arctic silver down for now. I just spent a lot for my upcoming case mod projects.

 

[turtle219]

there are two things i know that help a lot, i don't know if its only one or the other but they help...
1) increasing I/O voltage from 3.3 to 3.45
2) blurb w/ artic silver (i know it helps even if the fan is not plugged in)

before i did either i could only get +3 mhz... but after i could get upto +11mhz

i hesitated on the I/O voltage but it seems that most mobos run at 3.5 anyways...
good luck