overclocking and thermal paste/adhesive question

[Gogeta4832]

Greetings all.

I'm just barely starting to get into overclocking once again now that I've finally got a decent enough setup to do it with.
Currently I'm running an XP1700+ "B" at 166x12 stable at default voltage (1.6v) on my new ASUS A7N8X deluxe motherboard - rev 1.04.

Would post at 190FSB, but lock up in windows. Then hard drive wasn't found, had to reset to default (133FSB). Come to find out the south bridge was way too hot, as there is no cooling on it whatsoever (no heatsink, nothing). Now I got a sweet copper cooler that I want to use, but can't as it uses mounting brackets, and the southbridge doesn't have mounting holes around it I'm not sure how to do it. I've got no thermal pad that's adhesive so it will stick.

However I was told by a gentlemen working at a local computer store that liquid nails would work for what I want. He stated that it is great for heat transfer and will stick the cooler to the southbridge and it will stay.

What do the ladies and gentleman of this forum think?
Should I risk using liquid nails (super glue) to adhere the heatsink to the chip, or try to find a cheap thermal adhesive pad??

thanks to all that reply.

Gogeta4832

 

[pspada]

Um, why not just get some decent stuff like AS3?

 

[boyRacer]

Because AS3 won't hold whatever hes trying to stick on his southbridge.... why would you want to cool your southbridge anyway?

 

[Gogeta4832]

the reason I want to cool the southbridge is due to it being the controller that works with the hard drive.

I've put the same cooler that I want on the SB on the Northbridge and it has helped considerably, however if I push past 190FSB the system will not find my hard drive.

Talking to a few other peeps, we figured that the SB must be the cause, due to the heat generated by it.

 

[redhatlinux]

Are you SURE that you have you PCI locked at 33 mhz. Your symptoms indicate that your PCI bus is not locked and that is why your HDD is failing. If you need to attach the heatsink, Arctic Silver does have an epoxy but once it sticks its there for good.

 

[infinite012]

Here's what you can do: Lock your AGP bus at 66MHz instead of auto. If you still get hard drive corruption or whatever, then get some generic thermal paste and super glue. Put a small dot of super glue on each of the four corners of the southbridge and then put some thermal paste in the middle of the southbridge. Attach the heatsink and press down firmly (but not too firmly, else you will break something) for about 30 seconds. Leave the computer alone (on it's side) for 15 minutes, then turn it on and see if the heatsink is warm. If it is then it's doing it's job.