[Zenskas]

You could always try taking the northbridge heatsink off then cleaning off any thermal grease and reapplying it with something like arctic silver 5. Try an intake fan as well, that would help push the air faster.

[TheWalrus]

I assume the contact with the chip is pretty good, considering the extreme temperature
If I wasn't afraid about losing warranty, I'd grab one of those old CPU coolers I have in a bag somewhere and slap it on with some special thermal glue. But I am sane, still.
What sucks is I can't seem to remove the **** blue plates on the heatsinks. They definitely don't help the air getting inside.

[Zenskas]

TheWalrus, on Jun 19 2009, 05:27 PM, said:

I assume the contact with the chip is pretty good, considering the extreme temperature
If I wasn't afraid about losing warranty, I'd grab one of those old CPU coolers I have in a bag somewhere and slap it on with some special thermal glue. But I am sane, still.
What sucks is I can't seem to remove the **** blue plates on the heatsinks. They definitely don't help the air getting inside.

In the screenshots you posted the temperatures looked fine so I do not know why the heatsink is so hot. Does your heatsinks get that hot puntoMX?

[TheWalrus]

Well from what I read the sensor is somewhere around southbridge, so it doesn't say anything about NB and/or mosfets. Unfortunately.

[Tripredacus]

Ah I see you have an Antec Performance chassis, which is what I have. Have you tried changing the fan speeds? They have three settings I believe. Also did you install all the fans it comes it? I haven't had any heat issues at all in mine, but then again I am using an Intel board, which isn't know for heat issues.

[TheWalrus]

The FANs are terrible. On the lowest settings they do nothing and anything above, it's like an airplane taking off
I also managed to remove those bloody blue plates covering NB and the mosfets. It didn't help anything though.
BUT in idle, the heatsink is quite warm, not hot. When I run Prime95 though, I could fry an egg.

Anyway, my ultimate goal is to have the PC running stably at 500 FSB. Something tells me I should solve the temperature thing first, though

[puntoMX]

Zenskas, on Jun 19 2009, 03:31 AM, said:

Does your heatsinks get that hot puntoMX?

Well, that's strange indeed as my motherboard coolers stay at room temperature, but then, I use a CPU cooler that blows on top of the other components too... I can't even get my fingers warm from it... It must be the high FSB, although it will lower the CPU temperatures...

[TheWalrus]

Would be interesting if you tried without the CPU fan - if it's possible at all with your CPU.

This post has been edited by TheWalrus: 19 June 2009 - 05:18 PM

[puntoMX]

Remember that I use a FSB of 334MHz. When I set all on stock and with the fan off, CPU at full speed my CPU cooler gets too hot to touch but the motherboard components stay cool, well, about 15oC warmer but still...

[TheWalrus]

exact opposite here