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ninja fetus · 26-09-2004, 12:05 AM

I got one! Wee!

My southbridge was getting a little too hot for comfort, so I originally was going to use my old northbridge heatsink off on intel MoBo. I went to Fry's to buy some thermal paste to glue that thing on! But, the paste was 8 BUCKS! No way! So right next to it was a Vantec ICEBURQ! $10.

I popped out my motherboard and slapped on my shiny new copper heatsink and fan! I put the northbridge heatsink on beacuse my old one was aluminum, and passive. Easy install! I looked at my southbridge, the box comes with 2 heatsinks, a medium sized and small one. I put the meduim sized one on! It fits nice 'n snug! thermal tape came along with it! with thermal compound too!

The hardest part of the install was taking the paper of the thermal tape! Looks AWESOME! SHINY!!!!!

Well worth the money!

My northbridge has dropped around 5Celsius Idle, and about 10-12Celsuis Load!

I dont know the temps of my southbridge, i just know that now it is a LOT cooler!

26-09-2004, 12:05 AM	#1 (permalink) Top
ninja fetus I'm a thugged out gangsta Join Date: Mar 2004 Age: 19 Male Posts: 3,525 Times Helpful: 70 Status: Offline My Computer	Vantec ICEBERQ I got one! Wee! My southbridge was getting a little too hot for comfort, so I originally was going to use my old northbridge heatsink off on intel MoBo. I went to Fry's to buy some thermal paste to glue that thing on! But, the paste was 8 BUCKS! No way! So right next to it was a Vantec ICEBURQ! $10. I popped out my motherboard and slapped on my shiny new copper heatsink and fan! I put the northbridge heatsink on beacuse my old one was aluminum, and passive. Easy install! I looked at my southbridge, the box comes with 2 heatsinks, a medium sized and small one. I put the meduim sized one on! It fits nice 'n snug! thermal tape came along with it! with thermal compound too! The hardest part of the install was taking the paper of the thermal tape! Looks AWESOME! SHINY!!!!! Well worth the money! My northbridge has dropped around 5Celsius Idle, and about 10-12Celsuis Load! I dont know the temps of my southbridge, i just know that now it is a LOT cooler!