Overheated Southbridge/chipset

[broonor]

I have possibly burned out my chipset on my motherboard.

The fan on the southbridge/chipset won't work on its own.  I'm wondering, to all you hardware nerds out there, would a heatsink properly cool the southbridge or is the fan absolutely necessary?  My computer hangs while I do a lot of intensive graphics or audio stuff.

If I did indeed fry my chipset, would it help anything to use a PCI sound card, or would that not help since it's all routed through the chipset as it is?

Is it time for a new motherboard (which I can't afford), or time for a little patchwork?

[Didzo]

put some ice on it or blow on it when it gets hot that will fix ur problems !

[Versus]

put some ice on it or blow on it when it gets hot that will fix ur problems !

:|

[Didzo]

FrozenCPU has a bunch of chipset coolers, both active and passive.

Since your computer is functional, the SB likely isn't destroyed (completely). If it's hot to the touch when it's acting weird, you should probably get some sort of heatsink or heatsink and fan combo. If that doesn't fix it, then I don't think anything else will.

Or you could just blow on it or put ice on it or something bcuz that might fix your problems.

[CaffeinePowered]

I would think if your North or South bridge died the whole motherboard would not work, try putting a better cooler on it if you think its getting too hot like Didzo said

[copulatingduck]

put some ice on it or blow on it when it gets hot that will fix ur problems !

i do that with my laptop, the entire piece evaporates in about a minute, but it drops the temp 20C so thats p good rite