is it a toasted north bridge?

[mojoman]

I recently changed my P4 1.8GHz 400MHz FSB to 2.4GHz 533MHz FSB on an MSI 6566E mainboard. There is a heatsink but no active cooling on the northbridge. OC'd it to around 2.8GHz when I saw an "AGP Failure" warning and then it crashed. System wouldn't reboot until I replaced the original CPU (I am posting on it right now). Checked under the heatsink for the northbridge and it looks pretty cooked (black and blue - it must've gotten pretty hot). What do y'all think - get a new board with better cooling or is it something with the cpu???

 

[Crashman]

If no thermal material is present on the northbridge under the sink, consider putting some paste there next time. As far as damage, you said it worked with another CPU? Test it out and if you don't see a problem, don't worry about it.

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