Northbridge Temperature

[xeni]

Anybody have any ideas of what the northbridge temperature should be.

 

[apt403]

For your DS3, not oc'ed, i would say depending on the ambient room temps normal NB temps should be around 50c on load, mid 40's idle.

 

[xeni]

For your DS3, not oc'ed, i would say depending on the ambient room temps normal NB temps should be around 50c on load, mid 40's idle.

Yea my room temperature is kinda hot so i am going to have to download than until they fix the heat in my building. Currently i am idling around 48-50~ according to a thermal sensor that i have attached to it that came with my case, and on full load depending what i am using it jumps up to ~55-58C

 

[chuckshissle]

Unless it's causing instability with your system and specially during heavy overclocking then you need to cool it down a bit. Keeping it below 60c would be good level for overclocking. I have placed 80mm fan on top of my graphics cards and cooling my motherboard's north bridge to a warm and comfy 40c. If your finger gets painful owie by touching it then it really needs some cooling.

 

[xeni]

The strange thing was that it was running fine for 2 days. But last night the room got a little hotter and i noticed it started hitting about ~55C or so and i was trying to copy a dvd using fab decrypter and it just blue screened. I dropped it back to normal clock speed and its fine again.

 

[bigbang]

yes dude, northbridge runs max on 60 load. it does need a bit of cooling if you want to overclock/playgames. go for a zalman. I have a prescott 3.4Ghz, its the hottest cpu ever made and with a zalman flower fan, it runs on 55C load when clocked to 3.76Ghz. its pretty good...

 

[wun911]

on an 965 its cool. about 35

on an 680i or 650i different story its hot and dammm hot! try 45 idle thats why these MBs usually come with some serious heat pipes and large copper HSFs

 

[xeni]

on an 965 its cool. about 35

on an 680i or 650i different story its hot and dammm hot! try 45 idle thats why these MBs usually come with some serious heat pipes and large copper HSFs

I wish it was at 35C, even at default setings its hovering around ~45C but i am not looking at the software temperature. I have a thermal monitor that came with my case attached to it so i have the thermal part right on the northbridge touching the metal directly.

 

[knowsitall]

on an 965 its cool. about 35

on an 680i or 650i different story its hot and dammm hot! try 45 idle thats why these MBs usually come with some serious heat pipes and large copper HSFs

I wish it was at 35C, even at default setings its hovering around ~45C but i am not looking at the software temperature. I have a thermal monitor that came with my case attached to it so i have the thermal part right on the northbridge touching the metal directly.

can anyone recommend me a good chipset cooling fan for my asus p5n32-e sli 680i motherboard??