06-08-2010, 12:26 AM
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?
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?