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Motherboard continued
Here we have your average
northbridge cooler, but without a cooling fan.
Albatron used thermal gum,
but we'll replace that with good old Arctic Silver for the best thermal
transfer.
The
southbridge chipset also has a heatsink to help dissipate heat, but we
found that the southbridge isn't flat. It actually dips down in the
center. This means the factory installed heatsink was serving no
purpose. With a little sanding and extra thermal paste, we were able to
get the southbridge chipset to fully contact the base of the heatsink.
Okay, we know the red slot is the new PCI Express slot, but what are the little
blue ones? Those are also PCI Express slots, but reserved for future hardware.
The three white slots are standard 33MHz PCI slots.
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