I thuoght this was the northbridge, but thats lower down.
It's an ASUS P5B board:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...2/DSC00160.jpg
I'm sorry if this is hideously obvious, it just confused me.
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I thuoght this was the northbridge, but thats lower down.
It's an ASUS P5B board:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...2/DSC00160.jpg
I'm sorry if this is hideously obvious, it just confused me.
To the left of the picture is my CPU cooler, and to the right is my graphics card.
The heatsink itself gets up to 80C, which seems way too hot.
Southbridge?
Hmm isn't that the northbridge and the chip with the heatsink on behind the pci slots the southbridge? I think those chipsets do run quiet warm although I have a mate with a variant of that board who reckons his overstates the temps.
It is the northbrige isn't it. The south bridge is the smaller heatsink lower down.
It's hot but not uncommon I don't think.
Ah right, yeah it would make sense for that to be the northbridge, just clunk showed me a picture of his northbridge heatsink and it was the other heatsink, the one on below the PCI slots.
However he had a different version of the board, maybe thats why.
Is the board overclocked or is that high with stock settings.
Northbridge/Southbridge in either location. My A8N32-SLi Deluxe in my old PC has it around that way.
Yes, that is the Northbridge.
I cant remember the pic I showed you, was it regarding the thermal paste and the NB heatsink not sitting flat?
Anyway, the later P5Bs that are the non-deluxe model, have the hook and eye mounting instead of the push pins.
Northbridge at the top and southbridge at the bottom.
I remember now, last time, I said that I didnt believe that the heatsink reaches 80c..I still dont, but if it does, then you need to RMA the board.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goose
Yeh, it was that pic with the heatsink not sitting flat.
After using 2 different means of measuring the temperature, both say 65-80C
This seems really, really hot.
Either replace the cooling, pop a small fan on it or change the motherboard for a heatpipe one.
Run it at full load with a desk fan blowing into the case, and then measure how hot it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goose
What are you using to measure the temps?
Have you taken the heatsink off yet? Can you do a pic of what it looks like underneath?
He shouldnt need to do that with a stock board.Quote:
Originally Posted by DataMatrix
I just did some temp measuring, using 2 different methods.
Firstly, I used this temperature gun as its really easy to use, but that made me think it might not be totally accurate. Anyway here is a pic of that in use, and the temperature reading (it is in Celcius).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...2/DSC00172.jpg
As you can see, the red dot is the laser, and it reads 76.5C
I then decided to use a different was of measuring the temperature as the laser gun could of been inaccurate. So i used this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...2/DSC00173.jpg
Even when using this it gave me a 73.9C reading
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...2/DSC00179.jpg
As you can see from this pic, i put a bit of thermal paste on the end, just so it would conduct better.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...2/DSC00174.jpg
All of the temperatures are with the CPU overclocked to 3 Ghz. However when i tried it when the CPU was clocked at 2.4, it read 65C. The CPU was at idle also.
I took the heatsink off before and the thermal paste was like glue, so i had to take that off, then put some OCZ ultra silver 5+ on. Didnt make any difference in temperatures.
I would RMA it.
If I remember right, the safe working temp is 65c, and then there is a thermal cutoff point between 85c and 105c with a further catastrophic one at 118c.
For the outside of the heatsink to be 80c, would mean that the die would be quite a bit more.
If it is running at 65c at stock, that is too hot as well.