My motherboard was running at 38c idle but when I opened up the side of my case and put my hand on the NB after about 3 seconds it would burn my hand. The paste that was on the northbridge was rock solid seems like real crappy stuff.
Wouldn't I have to take the mobo heatsink off to put a northbridge cooling fan on the chip? and the heatsink covers other components with the thermal pads. Wouldnt having a northbridge cooling fan instead keep those components from getting cooled? Never really thought much about getting a cooler for the NB. I dont know too much about this, I also wanted to just get some experience with it since im a noob guess that wasn't such a bright idea heh. I was just planning on putting some better paste and getting new thermal pads but i'll def have to look into what you said since it might work better. Thanks for the help btw man.