NB & SB Cooling best cooler??!?

[Btthr5150]

Ive been able to get the FSB up to 191 but not past it (at least not stable) I'm sure the north and south bridge cooling is to blame.
I've already kicked the NB voltage to 1.7 and set the multiplier down to 8 (stock @ 11)and no help for the FSB.Deatails on my RIG in singnature.
I want to know from people which chipset coolers etc work the best and easiest to use. I've seen many differnt ones online I like the thermaltake silver icberg (or something like that) but I want to know others experience with this.
Thanks ahead of time for the help

 

[Shimmishim]

wow you're the first perso i've met online that hasn't been able to hit over 200 mhz with an abit nf7-s

you know, it may be your ram that's an issue...

have you tried 1 stick at a time?

becuz i doubt it's your nb/sb getting too hot...




but if you do get a nb/sb cooler go with the vanteq iceberq on the nb and the zalman something as a passive for the sb

 

[Btthr5150]

I can get to 200 FSB but I'l get rounding errors in Prime 95.
I want this as rock solid stable as I can get it.
I doubt that the memory is the problem because it Corsair pc3200 CL2 and will run at 200 Mhz by default at CL2. I've tried upping the mem voltage but it made it take longer for the errors to appear in Prime 95.

 

[screw3d]

Have you tried running your CPU at stock or near stock speed but running the FSB at 200mhz? You should try o/c one component at once, and see the maximum speed each component can run at, and then only try running everything at max at once.. although it isn't guaranteed that everything would work happily together at max.

 

[screw3d]

Oh BTW you should first test your RAM using memtest86 here..Corsair makes good stuff, but sometimes you do meet duds

 

[infinite012]

zalman zm-nb32j. That's what i got on my nb and I just reused my stock nb cooler on my sb. I'm using an a7n8x deluxe, btw.

 

[4x4expy]

Originally posted by: Shimmishim
wow you're the first perso i've met online that hasn't been able to hit over 200 mhz with an abit nf7-s

you know, it may be your ram that's an issue...

have you tried 1 stick at a time?

becuz i doubt it's your nb/sb getting too hot...




but if you do get a nb/sb cooler go with the vanteq iceberq on the nb and the zalman something as a passive for the sb

Just to add to this... I got better stability putting my single stick of ram in the DIMM3 slot(farthest from the CPU). This seemed backward to me but it is even recommended in the manual to use ram slots in order from dimm3 to dimm1. With the ram in the dimm1 slot I was hitting a wall at about 185fsb.

 

[mechBgon]

Excuse me for asking a dumb question, but did you manually set your AGP bus to 66MHz?

As for northbridge/southbridge cooling, check out this NB cooler. Looks pretty fine! Or here's Insane3D's solution: thread

 

[Btthr5150]

I did set the AGP to 66. And buy the way..what is with the divider on these boards?? Specificly I mean whats the diiference between 6/6 or 3/3 etcthey are both 1 to 1 ratios right?
So why isn't their just a setting for 1 to 1??
Again this is one of the unanswered questions in the universe...!

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

what is ur NB temp anyways?

 

[Cerb]

Zalman NB32j

 

[Noid]

My divider is set 5/5, I'd try that first.
It does make a difference (dont ask me why... )
leave your chipset voltage at 1.7
make sure your memory voltage is 2.75

... and I'd look under the NB to see if theres enough paste
___ edit ___

The Barton 2500 is only a 1.833 Ghz chip

So , I'd try the mult of 9 with 200 FSB first

and you might have to give the CPU a lil more volt

then run memtest86

 

[Btthr5150]

Originally posted by: Noid
My divider is set 5/5, I'd try that first. It does make a difference (dont ask me why... ) leave your chipset voltage at 1.7 make sure your memory voltage is 2.75 ... and I'd look under the NB to see if theres enough paste ___ edit ___ The Barton 2500 is only a 1.833 Ghz chip So , I'd try the mult of 9 with 200 FSB first and you might have to give the CPU a lil more volt then run memtest86

I think thats the only diveder I haven't tried (It seem a little repetitive to keep doig 1/1 ratio at the time) I also wasn't too sure about bumping the mem voltage that high but I'll try those things and let you know....Thanks
I think I'll still be getting some good cooling on the north and southbridge though ...