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- Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:27 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Motherboard northbridge reaches 120c (!) and dies
- Replies: 42
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Excerpt below is from page 2 of the Oct 10'th Tom's Hardware article, Cheap Thrills: Core 2 Duo E6400 Overclocked to 3.33 GHz . Our final [HSF] candidate for "insane clock speeds within rational budgets" is Gigabyte's new 3D Galaxy II. What may at first appear to be a superfluous feature, a fan over...
- Sun Oct 22, 2006 2:08 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Motherboard northbridge reaches 120c (!) and dies
- Replies: 42
- Views: 61549
It's a crazy world we live in where the latest overclocked CPUs barely get warm under load, yet the NB and SB regularly get to 80c in a well ventilated case. Sigh.. The image of squeezing a balloon comes to mind ... I was curious how much of a difference, if any, the Thermalright HR-05 northbridge ...