NB temps 50C-60C? WTF?

[Hawks]

A buddy of mine just built me a new rig. I'm beyond impressed with it, however, when I went to begin overclocking it, I noticed the North Bridge was running in the low to mid 50's and even reached 60 degrees Celcius. I'm fairly sure that these are not normal temps for a default set up... Here's my new system specs:

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+
Mobo: MSI K8N Diamond Plus SLI
RAM: Corsair CMX1024-3200PRO 1GB DDR400 (this bottlenecks my sys, I know)
GPU: MSI GeForce NX 7600 GT PCI Express 256MB DDR3
HD: Western Digital Raptor WD1500AHFD 150GB
Case: Coolermaster RC-830-SSN1 CM Stacker 830 (THIS CASE IS THE BOMB)
Cooling: Coolermaster RL-MUA-EBU1 AquaGate Mini R120 Liquid Cooling System
PSU: iGreen Power 600W - RS-600-ASAA

Any help would be greatly appreciated because I'd like to OC this rig to see what it is capable of but I'm just concerned about the NB temps being that high at default settings.

 

[Hawks]

To answer my own question, I just got off the phone with MSI and they say that 50-60 Celcius is well within specs for Nvidia NB's.

 

[Running]

didn't know NB temps ran that high, i guess if your having an unstable oc you could always use some active cooling on the nB

 

[Fraggable]

NB temps can get pretty high, especially with passive cooling. It's normal though. I wouldn't worry unless they hit 70C on a regular basis.

 

[dawza]

Nothing to worry about. The NF4 is rated for up to 90C, and I would not worry unless temps consistenly hit >75C on full load.

The heatpipe-cooled NF4s all seem to be in the 50-70C range, which is quite low compared to 80C+ some of the smaller non-heatpipe cooling solutions achieve:

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[Hawks]

Yeah, I was kind of surprised myself but a buddy at MSI said the new NF4's run that hot. I'm going to mess around with OCing tonight when I get home from work. I think this sys has some decent potential. The only thing I see hindering it is the 200 Mhz Consair memory.

 

[dawza]

Put the memory on a divider and you should have no problems memory-wise whatsoever (provided that your memory is stable to begin with, and that your mobo does not have issues with RAM dividers- which I don't believe the MSI boards do).

 

[RallyMaster]

It's normal I think. These days, the chipset needs almost a full size CPU cooler. I can't believe how motherboard manufacturers are putting small 40mm HSFs on thing that run hotter than the CPU. That's just ridiculous. One of these days, we'll have retention module for NBs.