OK I'm v. new to this forum thingy, so give me some slack. Just updated an old P4 sytem to an i7 930 on the Gigabyte X58A-UD3R. I put in most components recommended by custom PC. CPU cooler is Akasa Nero S. The Northbridge is running too damn hot (to hot to touch) I've taken off the easy overclock (easytune 6 programme). but its still hot. I am using on old Jeantech Phong case (maybe I should have just changed the case to but didn't want to take up too much space). Looking on the net it seems a common problem with this board if you don't use the stock cooler, but everyone says don't use the stock cooler. Should I just put the intel cooler on the CPU and be done with it, or should a try and fir another fan in, but the Nero S takes up soo much room in the case. Any thoughts?
90C? I wouldnt recommend it, but a "finger burning" 60-70 has always been stable for us. Obviously cooler = better because the chip will heat up the surrounding hardware too = bad. It's obviously more important if you're overclocking/overvolting as well.
Cooling the north bridge has pretty much no gains what so ever. I put water cooling on mine, now it is running 25C to 30C and my overclocking potential hasn't gone up by any margin.