BSman

Okay, so I am buying a new mobo but it comes with a passive NorthBridge cooler and I want to do some serious overclocking.

I have a bunch of old Slot 1 CPU coolers including a TT Golden Orb.

I was thinking I could do some metal work and trim off the big flat peices and drill mounting holes and presto, a great NB cooler.

The Dragon Orb keeps my P3 500 @600 at 42c under load (about 40W). Do you think it would be good enough for the NB???

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wowza

Boy, that would be sweet. And yes that would work like a charm, todays active NB coolers are a small dinkey fan that hardly do crap. That would work great over that passive cooler. I want to see some pics when its done

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PetrolHead

why don't u just buy a golden orb NB Cooler?

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wowza

ahh that would take the fun out of altering a cpu cooler. I thought about doing that with a coolermaster areo 4 lite and my mobo, but it was too heavy to be supported by the mobo

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BSman

I googled and got nothing... You got a link?
And why buy somthing when you can half-ass it your self?? Plus i like moding

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wowza

If you like modding, get one of these small coolers and alter that to fit your NB

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bigvaL

ill tell you something, i added a fan to my northbridge heatsink and it dropped to temps maybe 1C, so it doesnt help much

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mavec

why not get the Zalman ZM-NB47J? .. it's a great passive heatsink and will do just fine for any serious overclocking as long as your casecooling is ok... if it's not enough, put a 12cm fan blowing on it :P ..

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SpookedJunglist

i think i have to agree with bigval on this one. i bought a better hsf for my northbridge and it dropped the temps by a big bit. But when i turned the fan off there was no change in northbridge temps. Kinda wierd. i do think you could gain from a better heatsink though. and if designed preperly maybe the fan would do something. i think its because there is pretty hot stuff all around the northbridge so it cant get cold air. though it is out of a case, so maybe if i hit it with a nother fan to clear the heat pockets out it would get cooler.

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