Heatsink on south bridge????

[kd2777]

I am building a new computer in the Antec Aria case and am wondering if there would be any advantage to put a heatsink on the southbridge? I am using the shuttle athlon xp board with the soundstorm.

Thanks

KD

 

[Schadenfroh]

why would you want to do that? it does not get that hot

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
why would you want to do that? it does not get that hot

Thats not entirely true. Many of the first NF2 boards had hot running southbridges. Mine got a little warm and I had an extra heatsink so I put it on there its no problem now. Some people say it can help reduce the pops, and buzzing some of the boards make while using analog speakers.

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
why would you want to do that? it does not get that hot

Mine is too hot to touch for more than couple of seconds. You can add passive cooler if you want.

 

[kd2777]

Thanks, I had one laying around and was wanting to put it on but didn't want to waste it if it was unneeded.

thanks

KD

 

[InlineFive]

I put a passive cooler on my MCP-T because it was really hot. I haven't noticed any stability or performance difference however.

 

[Budman]

Wow thank you guys for this thread.

I never touched mine on my nforce2 board but like Naustica said it's blazing hot & after a few secs i almost burned my finger!

If it's that hot it cant be good for it,so I chopped up a small heat sink & put it on mine also.

I dont know if it helps but it sure cant hurt anything,cooler is always better.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: JBT

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
why would you want to do that? it does not get that hot

Thats not entirely true. Many of the first NF2 boards had hot running southbridges. Mine got a little warm and I had an extra heatsink so I put it on there its no problem now. Some people say it can help reduce the pops, and buzzing some of the boards make while using analog speakers.

REALLY....

I'll have to try it then...I had to put my soundcard back in because the analog was hissing slightly

And I was so happy I could finally ditch that soundcard...

 

[LAVAB84615]

ive got one of these on my southbridge and it does a really good job...

 

[jswjimmy]

ive go a an35n-400, i plan to get a good hsf for the north-birdge, then put the stock passive cooler on the south-bridge. i hope i can get 466fsb after that.