Where is the Northbridge on a P6T Deluxe 2?

[PRIVATE]

Thanks.

x509

[daytripper]

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:53:55 -0700, PRIVATE <no...@none.com> wrote:

>Thanks.
>
>x509

There actually isn't a traditional NorthBridge on the x58 chipset, as all of
the memory functionality is now expressed within the processor package.
There's an IO Hub - which would be the closest thing to a NorthBridge - and of
course an ICH.

http://www.intel.com/Assets/Image/diagram/X58_blockdiagram.gif

Page 2-2 of the ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 shows the location of both the IOH and the
ICH. The former is under the large rectangular heat sink just south of the
processor (pretty much dead-center in the motherboard footprint), while the
latter is over near the enet connectors at the other end of the heatpipe...

Cheers

/daytripper

[PRIVATE]

Thanks. I believe it is the IOH that people sometimes talk about
watercooling, if you want to overclock the i7 CPU. It seems that you
would need to take off that big heatsink, with the connected
heatpipes, if you wanted to do that. Is it worth all the effort, or
is it even possible?

x509

[Rob]

"PRIVATE" <no...@none.com> wrote in message
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It's *probably* not necessary. The Northbridge often needed extra cooling
when overclocking on earlier processors, due to the MCH overheating
when over-volted, but as that stuff is now in the CPU, watercooling
just that is probably sufficient. I've overclocked quite a range of mobos,
but haven't tried with an i7 (yet), so take the above with a pinch of salt..
HTH,
--
Rob