Is this Northbridge cooler any good???

Nightrain

Nightrain

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is this a good product???would it cool a northbridge well?

http://www.coolerguys.com/840556029717.html

my board has a big red passive heatsink. wondering if this would cool it better because it does get really hot? maybe lower my mobo temps a little. the board is in my sig but hard to find online lol

im not even sure if my northbridge cooler comes off lol. ill have to look. but other than that is this a decent northbridge cooler (its only 20$ so thats good, but doesnt mean it is good) its made out of copper so thats a plus i would think

edit...althoughlooking at the cfm's the fan seems pretty damn sucky...only 3.47 cfms...that seems like nothing to me???so really its a big copper passive heatsink with a fan with led's to look pretty. the majority of the functionality comes from it being copper huh?
 
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im just wondering... is your chipset running hot?

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i mean, this is the motherboard you have, right?

it has a passive Northbridge cooler... so i wouldnt replace it tbh, jsut put a 120mm case-fan in it for better airflow rather than replacing the heatsink ;)
 
ya that looks like my board. or atleast some revision of it (everything looks exactly the same except for the IDE controllers. mine has the hdd and optical drive controller both facing perpendicular to the board whereas i can only see one there...but the pic is small, but everything else is identical so ya...same norhtbridge anyway so thats all that really matters)...

but ya i have decent airflow in my case. extra fans and such. have one somewhat close to that blowing towards it, sucking in air from outside the case (placed it in my unused 5 inch slots (modded 2 unused pci fans to work there. seems to be lowering my temps a degree or two)...so you think that northbridge hs is fine. it just seems to get pretty hot and its designed kinda weird, even if you have a fan blowing at it fom the side air doesnt pass thru it because of the way its designed...air just hits off the side of it. it gets pretty hot tho (which i guess it means its doing its job. just my board ive heard a lot of complaints about it...people say that its quiet ya (which i dont really care about because im running loud as hell as it is if i crank up the modded pci fans...they're really loud) but that it doesnt do a very good job cooling of the northbridge...my mobo temps are usually higher than my cpu temps, is that normal?but ialso dont know where on the boardthe temp diode is located so it may not be taking temps from the northbridge (altho that would seem like it would be the next hottest spot on the board besides the cpu)...

i dont know just wondering if it worked well/would be worth the 20 dollars to upgrade. all the copper fins seem like a crapload more surface area than my current heatsink but just dont know if its any good. although thermaltake is a pretty good brand tho, no?
 
I used to think my 486DX2 needed cooling because it burnt my finger when I touched it. But it didn't even need a heatsink. Never try to judge the temps with your hands because even if it feels insanley hot, its probably fine.
 
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