CPU Cooling Questions

[Guest]

I have a friend with a mobo and recently, the bearings on a small fan on the VIA chip went bad, and the fan stopped working. It didn't appear that this would cause any problems initially, but the other night, the software that monitors the mobo temperature sounded an alarm, and alerted him that the CPU temp was at 194 degrees F.

Question 1: Is it possible for the absence of this small fan on the VIA chip to cause the CPU to overheat like this?

Question 2: It's fairly easy to locate a replacement fan for the CPU (a socket A Athlon), but I haven't been able to locate a fan/heat sink to replace the one that was on the VIA chip. What kind/size fan to I need? (It's an Asus A7V KT-133 mobo, if that makes any difference).

Question 3: Generally, do fan/heatsink combos ship with thermal compound, or is this something I should count on buying separately?


THanks much.

jh

 

[jihiggs]

i dont think the fan on a north bridge stopping can cause the cpu to over heat, but maybe if it is getting that hot. but you can replace the north bridge fan with any heatsink of that size. i dont know of any that come with adhesive, buts not too expensive.

i went to the tomshardware forums and all i got was this lousy signature.

 

[10GHZ]

1stly i'm almost 100% sure that if your chipset fan fails, it does not cause your cpu to run hotter, the north bridge controls system devices such as ram...etc so if it's overheating, your system would likely to get lock ups, but it dosn't causes your cpu 2 overheat, what temp is the cpu running under? 2ndly you can choose the Thermal Take Crystal Orb as an replacement for your northbridge cooler, it's pretty high performace active chipset cooler. and 3rdly, not all the hsf comes with factory supplied thermal compound, most of them do but i woudn't recommand using the supplied thermal tape, get rid of the existing thermal tape with acetone and replace it with AS2 or 3