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Thread ID: 44747 2004-04-29 03:24:00 Just showing my lack of knowlage. JJJJJ (528) Press F1
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232902 2004-04-29 05:57:00 Or on p.123 of PC Authority, April issue JJJJJ (528)
232903 2004-04-29 06:02:00 Is this it by any chance?

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metla (154)
232904 2004-04-29 06:10:00 Yes that's it. But it seems to have a fan on top of it. mine has nothing, just the plates sticking up JJJJJ (528)
232905 2004-04-29 10:20:00 what you have been looking at is the passive heatsink for the northbridge. under that heatsink (which may be glued on) is a flat chip. tweak'e (174)
232906 2004-04-29 18:09:00 Thank you for the answer Tweak. JJJJJ (528)
232907 2004-04-29 21:54:00 Not long ago my passive heatsink for the northbridge somehow fell off!! :O

Had to glue it back on again with Arctic Silver Adhesive.
Susan B (19)
232908 2004-04-30 00:24:00 Time to expose a bit more of my lack of knowledge.
What the hell is a North Bridge?
Does it have a South Bridge too ?
Reminds me of Singapore. North Bridge Road and South Bridge Road.
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JJJJJ (528)
232909 2004-04-30 00:30:00 /me wonders whether, if you look hard enough, you'll see people walking over the North and South bridges, waving placards .....


ohhhh that was naughty - forget I was here
Jester (13)
232910 2004-04-30 00:35:00 from JJJJJ's description they sound more like mosfet coolers? Pete O'Neil (250)
232911 2004-04-30 00:41:00 The Northbridge is a chipset (from Intel) that communicates with the CPU and controls interaction with memory, PCI bus, Level 2 cache, and AGP activities .

The Northbridge communicates with the CPU using the frontside bus .

Northbridge is one part of a two-part chipset called Northbridge and Southbridge . (Just like Singapore . . )

Southbridge handles the input/output functions of the chipset .
godfather (25)
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