"Wayne Youngman" wrote in message
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Hi,

I just bought myself a new Digital Thermometer today, and the first thing
I
could think of testing was the *South-Bridge* of the NF7-S system I just
sold.

Since the machine didn't have any hard-disks I just let it load up memtest
x86 and loop for a while.

15 minutes later. . . .the reading from LCD display was. . . .68°C lol!

I know we discussed this before (a few months ago), but isn't that too
hot?
I did try to find some pre-made heatsinks in the *U.K* but no luck. Why
didn't anyone start selling heatsinks for the nForce2 boards?

The South-Bridge is situated very close to the AGP slot so I have no idea
how people are using Zalman heatsinks, surely they get in the way of the
AGP
card, especially if it has a meaty heatsinks itself?
--
Wayne ][
new specs coming soon!



I have a different nF2 mobo, but I noticed the Southbridge very warm
(uncomfortably hot) to the touch also. I just stuck on a passive heatsink of
appropriate size (no more than a few mm larger) with some frag tape and now
just warm ;-) If the Mk.I fingertip tells you it's hot, cool it! Everyone
is always trying to improve the cooling of the Northbridge, video chipset,
etc... The Southbridge need a little help to ;-)

FRH