This section of the three-part heatsink attached to the motherboard covers the 890FX Northbridge. The default configuration comes with this waterblock screwed to the heatsink. It can be attached to a watercooling system or removed and replaced with a more elaborate heatsink that connects to the rear of the case.
 

This section of the three-part heatsink attached to the motherboard covers the 890FX Northbridge. The default configuration comes with this waterblock screwed to the heatsink. It can be attached to a watercooling system or removed and replaced with a more elaborate heatsink that connects to the rear of the case.

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PC Building: Know your way around Gigabyte's GA-890FXA-UD7 motherboard

To complement the launch of the new Phenom II X6 CPUs, AMD has a new chipset, the 890FX. Gigabyte has taken this chipset and built the GA-890FXA-UD7 motherboard. In order to get a better idea of how this new chipset interacts with your hardware, we have stripped the heatsink and investigated just what the major chips on the motherboard do.

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