High temp on mobo heat sinks

[Z390]

@ FP91G Copper is better than aluminium and also the heat sink you are referring to is southbridge but OP main issue is in the Northbridge, which is not fully shown in the picture above.

[JangoUnchained]

years ago I got into btc because It made a little money enough for me to be able to build lots of rigs.

I basically was addict to build modding and upgrading pcs.

Much like a guy that would make hot rod cars.

Damn a lot has changed.

There were times I had 11gh out of 21th .

yeah my hash rate was 11 gh in gpus and the whole btc network was 22th.

that means I was mining 1/2000 of the worlds btc network in my garage.

not because i believed in btc
but because i was feeding my pc build addiction. 😀

I look back at it and smile 😃 at how naive I was.

You got into BTC at a very good time, my story is different from yours, year's ago I was busy mining shitcoins instead of bigger popular altcoin, I thought this move will get me richer than mining top altcoins.

[mu_enrico]

I ran into the similar problem last month. It turned out because of my CPU fan was clogged. The hot air blows quickly spread from the CPU area to parts that absorb heat, including motherboard heat-sink and ram metal plate. It confused me at first, but I manage to locate the culprit. After that, I bought a cheap Deepcool CPU Fan, and it fixed my problem. Also, check your case air flow, try to open the case to see if the problem still exists. Since the major source of heat is usually CPU and GPU, check your GPU air flow as well.

[FP91G]

@ FP91G Copper is better than aluminium and also the heat sink you are referring to is southbridge but OP main issue is in the Northbridge, which is not fully shown in the picture above.

I know that this motherboard has a southbridge and a northbridge. Naturally, the northbridge will heat up more, because it is responsible for the exchange of data between the GPU, CPU and RAM.If you find such a radiator in a store, buy it for your peace of mind. These motherboards have been working for me for 6 years and I use only additional fans. There are a lot of additional 3 pin connectors on this mobo.

[JangoUnchained]

OP you are just stressing yourself

NorthBridge getting hot can't kill the motherboard, its the way things should be but feel free to change the heat sink for better result if you have the money, I just want you to know that Gigabyte confirmed that Northbridge safe temp can reach 115°C.