Northbridge is too hot

[chori_lc_sm]

Hello people

I have a z270m-d3h with an i7700k, 8gb ram, two additional fans plus the eveo master running on the CPU. A 1060 3gb GPU and a bronze PSU EVGA. Everything runs smooth, I have a little problem though.

The TMPIN2, which I think it's the north bridge on the motherboard runs extremelly hot. Max temperatures while running for example Battlefield 4 are 96ºC. Everything else is very cool and around 35ºC.

What's going on? is it supposed to take all the heat like this? Is it a faulty component?

 

[CountMike]

How's your case cooling ?

 

[chori_lc_sm]

I think it's cool enough, nothing else heats up that much. I feel the NB is heating to the extreme.

take a look at this

https://imgur.com/a/nBpVB

 

[CountMike]

Yeah, that gets pretty hot under load. Only way is to cool it down but try "Finger method" first. Touch it when under load and if it desn't feel that hot it would man that heat transfer to cooler is no good. I had to mount a small fan on some of them to keep heat down.

 

[chori_lc_sm]

Thanks for answering Mike, that was the first thing I tried and I couldnt hold my finger in there for more than 3 seconds. It gets super fking hot. The rest of the pc seems cool I just dont know if I should cool that part with a direct fan to it or if its supposed to be like that. Giggabyte isn't good at answering this stuff on support it seems

 

[CountMike]

Once or twice I had to put a small 50mm fan over it, helped cool it down. Just used some glue at it's corners to mount it.

 

[diellur]

I second putting a smaller fan in for that specific component. I've done the same for my NVMe drive and noticed significant improvements.