2 posts tagged with "northbridge"

Back in part 1 of this build, I ran in to some overheating concerns with the northbridge. So I decided to try a passive tower cooler for both the north and south bridges.

So here's the new parts that are ready to go... From left to right, they are:

• Thermalright HR-09S (type 3) VRM cooler... which I didn't end up using (more on that later);
• Thermalright HR-05 IFX chipset cooler - this is the straight-up version, which I'll use for the southbridge;
• Thermalright HR-05 SLI IFX chipset cooler - the "bent" version for the northbridge.

This is just couple of quick pics to give you an idea of what will be coming sometime in the next few weeks ;)

At this stage, it looks like completely-passive-cooling a 35W Athlon with an Orochi is entirely possible. However, the 790GX northbridge may be a bit of a problem...

... to be continued ;)

Update​

You can now read about part 1 of the build in this post :)

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