Southbridge cooling: necessary?

[Rosencrantz]

Hello, I have an Abit nf7-s and I was wondering if I needed some kind of cooling setup for the southbridge. I've heard somewhere that it helps when you raise the vcore voltages.

 

[BZeto]

Originally posted by: Rosencrantz
Hello, I have an Abit nf7-s and I was wondering if I needed some kind of cooling setup for the southbridge. I've heard somewhere that it helps when you raise the vcore voltages.

Well the Vcore voltage effects the cpu temp.

I'm sure cooling the south bridge may help if your using lots of onboard devices and upping the fsb to pretty high levels.

Have you felt the south bridge chip while your computer has been on?

If it feels hot, then I'd say slap some sort of heatsink on there to cool it.

 

[pelikan]

I don't think its necessary. Vcore doesn't go to the SB. There are rare cases of sounds issues at high FSB being cured with a passive heatsink on the SB. So I say only put one on there if you run into problems.