Motherboard design question, and overclocking.

[RyanGreener]

Got a few questions....

#1. Heat-pipe designs are meant to keep the north bridge cool....which brings up my first question. I know the north bridge will get hotter if doing FSB overclocking, but let's hypothetically say you use unlocked multipliers to overclock. Will the north bridge heat up?

#2. This one is similar to the first one, but this time it is for AMD processors specifically, that have the north bridge inside the CPU. Whether I FSB or multiplier overclock, the north bridge (the actual one not on the chip) will pretty much be uneffected, right?

I ask this because I'm just wondering why people bother with heat-pipe designs if they're not using FSB solely to overclock.

 

[SirGCal]

Heat Pipes allow you to conduct heat away from a surface. Instead of one large heat sink, the pipes transfer heat to sinks not directly atop the item to be cooled. It doesn't cool better necessarily just because it has heat pipes. Motherboards use the pipes to space out the sinks so they don't tower in one spot on the board and to help even out temperatures instead of a few giant hot spots.

If you overclock the chips in any form, speed, multiplier, and/or voltage, it will make them work harder and hotter. And the bus works together so if you're messing with it in any area, all parts along the path are affected to some extent.

 

[RyanGreener]

Thanks for the info!