Northbridge high temperatures

Forum discussion tagged with Northbridge high temperatures.
  1. klorinczi

    [SOLVED] Northbridge overheat or power supply problem? Which thermal paste to use on overheated Northbridge of a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 motherboard?

    I have a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 v1.2 motherboard with AMD with 4 x 4 Gb DDR3 RAM. (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-990FXA-UD3-rev-12) Under higher performance (CPU or memory intensive operations, or long disk copy operations) the Northbridge of this board is overheated reaches 80 °C...
  2. zepcorpuz

    [SOLVED] Pros and Cons of Northbridge cooler

    Hi, I'll get straight to the point. I want to put a northbridge heatsink and fan on the northbridge of my MSI 970 Gaming Motherboard. Because it reaches more than 65 degrees C underload.... and it idles at 65 at normal room temps. It is hot here in the Philippines. My setup: Motherboard: MSI...
  3. sandals100

    Help with Crossfire setup

    Hi guys, I am looking for a new gpu setup. I thought I made my mind up when I decided to get a r9 280 but then stopped and decided to think a little more. I decided that I would rather go for a dual card in favor of a single card. My budget is currently at $300 AUD. I can only go crossfire as...