Post your CPU Heatsink and northbridge PIC

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Looks sweet, even though, I don't think it's necessary to put such a heatsink on the northbridge. Mine runs below 35°C pretty much all the time, atm it's at 26°C.

Here's mine,
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro and stock northbridge cooler.

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my 9500 A2M :) ( Black with a green LED fan, yay! =D )
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( well,.. if you look right above the top grafic's card, you can see a heatpipe :P I use the original heatpipe north / southbride cooler in my pc, and it workes just great :o
 
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Thermalright XP-120 (of course), on a naked X2 3800, and a HR-05-SLI.

succesfulerror, when did you get your HR-05-SLI? I want to know who had one first.
 
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Yeah. That's Lian Li for you.

I've got effectively 3 intake fans and 1 exhaust (the blower fan), but because the case is covered in small holes, I'm fine.

A little piece of cardboard stops the blower fan stealing air from the intake fan underneath.
 
thealmightyone said:
Yeah. That's Lian Li for you.

I've got effectively 3 intake fans and 1 exhaust (the blower fan), but because the case is covered in small holes, I'm fine.

A little piece of cardboard stops the blower fan stealing air from the intake fan underneath.
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Isn't it better to have negative air pressure rather than positive?
 
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Yay for stock-ness :P Hey, I'm getting average CPU temps of about 36*C, so I'm not complaining! I'd say this is a pretty clean case, too. Looks better than my last build. But those fans were messy...lots of wires to each!
 
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Not a very good picture, and I have a new PSU and Video card since the, as well as much better wire managment
 
Jet said:
Isn't it better to have negative air pressure rather than positive?
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wow, no :) positive air pressure makes the Fan's run slower ( since there is more air to move on a smaller space ), so the pc will be a bit more silent. also, the air will always leave the case at some point.. however getting air in could be a problem :o

Edit: the wire management looks much better than in my case =] I still want to pull out my motherboard and put the cables i can behind it :)
 
These are some older pics of my case, other than some re-arrangement of some wires though, the my compy has stayed pretty much the same......

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I had a closer up picture but I deemed it too blurry for showing......

Even if I wanted to, I don't think I can change out my Northbridge heatsink without either: 1. Some heavy modding, or 2. Taking out the whole mobo......
 
Well, with positive air pressure, there can be "hot spots" where the air flow does not reach, but with negative, there are no spots that are not reached by the airflow...
 
well... that would depend on how you place the components, no? ( and also on how the Fans are located in the case :) )

edit: besides... with negative air pressure, there are basicly less molecules to absorb the hear and transport it.. and you cant stop the radiation heat either. from what ive tested so far on my pc, higher air pressure cools better in case ( altough, those fan's cant really do Taht much,.. so its not like it makes a world of a difference :o )
 
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well... that would depend on how you place the components, no? ( and also on how the Fans are located in the case :) )
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And how your case is designed. The main thing potential 'hot spot' would be where the optical drives are, and unless you put ten million hard drives there it probably wouldn't be an issue.
 
true.. but who cares if the backside of the dvd-rom player is 30 or 50 degrees? (were 50 would be a real extreme :) ) it doesnt inflence anything ( not even the lifespan of the player is significantly reduced by a temperature that high)
 
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