INTEL DG31PR "Overheating motherboard"

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IN HWMonitor my motherboard showed a temp of 61°C via "systin".

Then I removed the north bridge heat-sink, cleaned up the solid, crust like TIM.
Then I applied enough Arctic Ceramique 2, and reattached the heat-sink.

After that HWMonitor Still reported 61°C via "systin". I even used a fan at max RPMs to cool the HS.

I noticed that once I placed the fan above the corner nearest to the DDR2 RAM, that the temp dropped to 56°C.

Then I took a straw and blew air at some ICs (within a red box in the picture/link below) and the temp dropped again to 58°C.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B40dpqRBiiUpV19JMkdDZWZuMWc/view?usp=sharing

I believe the temp sensor for the motherboard is in the IC that is in my picture/link is boxed in green.

Has anyone noticed this other than myself?
 
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Lutfij

Well honestly you shouldn't be worried about where the temperature sensors are if you've reapplied a fresh coat of TIM/thermal pads and have a fan blowing around the heatsinks. The architecture at the time had the memory controller located on the Northbridge which was also where the graphics chip was located thus the heatdump being high. In fact if you managed to populate the ram slots to their max capacity at the highest frequency, it meant the Northbridge MC has to do more work managing the rams. If you have a higher resolution monitor running off the onboard GPU then it would also mean higher temps.

The key areas to worry about are the ram, CPU, CPU power...
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Well honestly you shouldn't be worried about where the temperature sensors are if you've reapplied a fresh coat of TIM/thermal pads and have a fan blowing around the heatsinks. The architecture at the time had the memory controller located on the Northbridge which was also where the graphics chip was located thus the heatdump being high. In fact if you managed to populate the ram slots to their max capacity at the highest frequency, it meant the Northbridge MC has to do more work managing the rams. If you have a higher resolution monitor running off the onboard GPU then it would also mean higher temps.

The key areas to worry about are the ram, CPU, CPU power delivery and Northbridge (and if possible the Southbridge since it's the storage controller) are kept cool while under operation. Might I ask what your full system's specs inclusive of OS and chassis are?
 
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