A7N8X Hot Spots

blade · Post by **blade** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 7:04 pm

Here's some pics along the lines of the link wvjohn posted for the epox 8rda+, but this is for the Asus mobo:
http://www.bigbruin.com/html/thermal_images.htm

Interesting.

Guess we could use some small ram sinks, if we wanted to help cool some of those places.

Though the writer doesn't make it very clear in some pics.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 7:25 pm

cool pics - esp the vidcard

you could make a McMuffin on that 9700!

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 7:34 pm

I've put heatsinks on the Southbridges of both our Nforce2's. That was after seeing WV's post of the "toaster" pics.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 9:04 pm

i have heatsinks for all my sb's sitting around the nice little zalman ones, been too busy to put em on,

when get around to cranking that barton up, i'll put em on

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 9:25 pm

Zalman makes SOUTHbridge heatsinks?

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:14 pm

The memory heatsinks that usually come w/ memory heat spreader kits are PERFECT for the southbridge. I've mounted one on mine using included thermal tape and the height is perfect cuz it doesn't obstruct any cards and since the heatsink is a bit wider than the chip, you get some extra surface area for cooling.

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 3:40 pm

I need to get some ram sinks.. but i dont want to pay that much for somting that cost 2$ to make... all it is is a single extruded chunk of aluminum / copper that gets cut into small pieces... i can cut it myself... just sell me a 2' chunk of it!