Northbridge gets HOT!!

[I_coNer]

Hi.
I don't know if this is dangerous or something but the Northbridge on my Gigabyte GA-8IG1000MK gets extremely hot. When it's been sitting in bios for about 5 mins the northbridge gets HOT! If I keep my fingers on it for about 10 secs I burn them. Is this normal? It is a passive cooler (just a heatsink) on the northbridge. I just wanna know if the systems will burn or something? I remember the northbridge on my old motherboard got extremely hot also, but it never crashed.

 

[Scout]

If the system is stable, I wouldn't worry about it. Some run hotter than others.

I always try to make sure I have some air circulation around a passive north bridge just to make sure. Does your CPU HSF exhaust in the north bridge direction?

Scout
700 Mflops in SETI!

 

[I_coNer]

No it does not. Well I've had the computer turned on for 1 hour with both Prime95 and PCMark running and it is stable. So I don't think it's a problem. Also the 3 GHz surprisingly only is 50c - full load and 31c - idle with the boxed Artic Cooler. Very nice.

 

[mozzartusm]

Need more info. Does your board monitor the Northbridge temps?