Problems with overheating/non-sufficient cooling on my DG965

My suggestion:

If you absolutely can not adjust the CPU fan speed in BIOS or with any software you have tried you might try using a three pin extension from your CPU fan to the four pin CPU Fan connector on your MB. Leave the fourth pin on the MB CPU Fan plug unused this way. The four pin plug on your MB is clear in the picture. The fourth pin is very likely the BIOS CPU fan speed conection. I don't own the board so I may be completely off base. You may have already tried this, so I don't know if it will solve the problem for sure but it might be worth a shot.

http://www.intel.com/products/i/motherbd/dg965ss/dg965s...

Like this.

http://www.coolerguys.com/840556000013.html

I have this problem too.

My cpu heating up to 51-66*C
I couldn't solve it.


Anyone recommend us!!!???


Mine:
mobo: DG965WH
CPU: D945
RAM: 512*2 DDR2 Dual Channel
HDD: 320GB SATA II Seagate*2
DVD: SONY
CD: ASUS

get rid of the stock cooler and get a zalman with pwm

http://www.acousticpc.com/zalman_cnps9700nt_cpu_cooler....

Okay, I bought yesterday a Cooler Master Hyper 6+ (because thats the only thing they had in my country), the box says it has PWM (4 pin) but I'm not sure what PWM is (i think i have an idea). Also, the box says it runs from 1800 to 3000+ RPM, right now its running at 1800 (i guess thats the lowest it can run) but i need help making it run at 3000+ rpm!

can anyone help me?

NO! Stay away from zalman, my piece of sh!t 9500 am2 almost destroyed my am2 cpu because the idiots there designed a piece of crap locking mechanism, and the performance on it is no where near that of the tuniq tower for the price it's at. Zalman is all about looks and hype, even the ultra 120 by thermalright outperforms it and that is an older cooler that is quite cheap compared to the others

It's okay   I bought a Cooler Master Hyper 6+ as I said before. I just need to find a way to make it run from 1900 RPM to 3600 RPM.

Please help.

Hmm, you could volt mod it to force it to run faster with it being at 12v, but I think the easiest way would be to use a utility like speedfan, that should do the trick, or perhaps there's an option in your bios to do so, my asus crosshair has a feature that runs your cpu fan at max possible speed, and got my fan that's supposed to run at 2700rpms tops to go to 3100rpms, but this is a very high end board we're talking

chnge the fan to a higher rpm fan but it will be loud.

the best thing is get a higher better made performance cooler that does not rely on loud high rpm fans for cooling.

cooler master is an oka computer case comapny but there water cooling sytems and heatsinks are not so good its best to stick with a comapny that just makes good thermall solutions like thermaright, Noctua, and zalman cpu coolers

also the tower type cooler are better at disapating heat than the coolers with the fans pointing down and blowing the cool hot air on the cpu also there is a prob with this kind of cooler it stops the heatpipe from properly disapating the heat the only company that has found a solution for thsi and i read an intersting arcticle on is Enzotech they actually place an aluminm heatsink over the base not making contact but with the purpose of stoping the hot ait from hitting the base.

http://www.acousticpc.com/enzotech_ultrax_120mm_cpu_coo...

but this heatsink is good if you have a clearace prob tower coolers are much better and you can run a quiet fan they dont need high speed fan yet achive higher performance

http://www.acousticpc.com/noctua_nh_u12f_120mm_cpu_cool...

Also make sure the base ios making prop[er contact and dont overdue it and put to much thermal paste i also recomend using Arctiiclean step one and two as well as the best thermal interface material out there arctic silver 5 thermal compound

I agree with the noctua, but not the ultra X, I would wait to see what thermalright's upcoming ifx-14 cooler can do, as it's essentially two ultra 120(s) glued together so it's gonna be huge (they made it bigger too) not mention it comes with a backplate cooler to cool the behind too, so it's gonna be amazing when it finally comes out

no doubt this new thermalright cooler is going to be a match for even water cooling some pepole may shy away from it because of a complicated install or the weight or im sure it will be pricy.

Also the Ultra-120 extreme is coming out and should be a big improvement with the extra heatpipes.

the noctua is a good deal with a fan included and extremly quiet noiseless @ 8dba
http://www.acousticpc.com/noctua_nh_u12f_120mm_cpu_cool...


the ultra does surve one purpose though it blows air all over the mobo chipset and ram, nb, etc.

when i was talking about the ultra blowing air over the mobo i meant the ultrax from enzotech not the thermalright ultra-120 sorry

open up your bios, disable cpu smart fan and all the warnings, plug your cpu fan into a 3 pin header (power, nb or system/case, doesn't matter) then by default your fan will spin at 100% and you *should* be able to control it in speedfan.

I just installed the Enzotech Ultra-X on my C2D 6600 OCed to 3.2 Ghz. I used the Shin Etsu TIM (not the AS5 that came with the cooler) and replaced the OE fan with a SilenX 120mm to quiet the system a bit... I wanted a HSF that was blowing down on the heat pipe fins on my Asus P5B Deluxe.

Anyway, with my NZXT Lexa case temp at 23-24C, Intel TAT is reporting that I'm sitting at 31C idle temperatures, and around 40-41C under 100% load.

I had a Zalman 9500 originally, and it was keeping things "cool" at 38 C at idle and around 54-55 C under 100% load according to TAT.

Therefore, I'd highly recommend the Enzotech Ultra-X over the Zalman any day. It was a pretty drastic temperature decrease.

I've seen the ultra 120 extreme, and it's a nice improvement, but I think the ifx-14 will decimate the ultra, because it's so much bigger and has wider heatpipes

True the ifx should be a better performer and it alows 140mm fans for more silence and increase airflow but what may shy some pepole away will be the size, possible price and space issues this heatsink is big.

While the ultra-120-e will have a solid performance no fiting issues and the price is verry reasonable another thing i like about the thermalright heatsinks theye are copper but theye do not get diull or cause corrosion on top of the processor because of there high quality nickle plate

Thermalright RULES

I bet you mis the 4 pin fan with the pwm also zalman has the 9700-NT iwth the big 110 fan and pwm but the Enzotech is a good high quality heatsink and it seems to be getting more and more popular id like to see a tower heatpipe heatsink from them ill bet they will have one sooner or later.

CPU Cooling issues

Guess what there tacking preorders on the ULtra Extreme

Acoustic PC Rocks
http://www.acousticpc.com/thermalright_ultra120e_extrem...

also look at the bolt through kits this fixes the weight prob. so you don't rip your cpu off the board.

Thermalright and Acoustic PC Rocks

I personally think the ultra-x by enzotech is ok, but it could have room for improvement, and I really don't care for the 4pin with pvm since I just monitor and change the speeds manually with speedfan, but I suppose for a newbie it might not be a bad thing to have

what made you go with th enzotech over thermalright ultra-120

also llok at this it has a quiet fan just like you put on the enzo but also has 6 heatpipe intead of 3


Silent Max Frosbite cpu cooler only 19 dba !
http://www.acousticpc.com/silentmaxx_frostbite_cpu_cool...

Ehh, that looks just like thermaltake's newest big typhoon, nothing special

But I would never pick enzotech over thermalright's ultra 120, ultra 120-e, or ifx-14, those are 3 top notch amazing coolers

i agree me my self i would go with a ultra extreme from thermalright and i have one on pre order.

But sometimes you have space issues tower coolers may be too tall for a particular set up or you mayneed extra chipset cooling thats were the enzotech comes into place

Really it just depends on the situation.

In the perfect situation the Ultra would be my number one choice.

However what i like over the silentmaxx is
1 - it has a quiet fan the enzo fan is a loud delta

2- the silentmaxx has 6 heat pipes inted of 4 so it must performe better

I have an enzo already in a acrlic destop case from logisys but the next time i have a space issue i will try one of these silntmaxx coolers

It's your money, but you can slap on any fan onto thermalright's heatsinks. And also the ultra 120 extreme has 6 heatpipes (12 by their way of thinking) and the ifx-14 has 8 very wide heatpipes with a backplate cooler that can go either fanless or with a fan. I imagine having a nice 140mm fan on the ifx-14 will mean quite and cool operation, but it has a kinda steep price tag. My guess is that will improve like the regular zalman 9700's price tag did, though it should be at least below the ultra 120's for me to call the 9700 worthwhile

Not at all, or at least, that's a bad assumption... the Enzo heat-pipes are 8mm instead of the 6mm pipes (or smaller) that many others use. There may be other differences in the internal design of the pipes themselves (wick-type vs. gravity, fluid used, etc.). The Enzo also has an excellent base design and quality construction - the other one may as well, my point is that you can't just make assumptions based on the number of pipes.

BTW, you can also slap whatever 120mm fan you want on the Enzo if you're not happy with it  .

I'm not sure why Taco considers the Enzo a newbie HSF, but all the reviews I've seen place it right up with the top coolers on the market, with the additional bennifit of cooling your NB/MOSFETs/Memory due to it's down-facing design... doesn't sound like much of a newbie fan to me  .

I don't consider it a newbie one, just not above my personal favorites by thermalright, since the ifx-14 has 8 massive 8mm heatpipes and a backplate cooler, which is just unbelieveable 8O

You mean.. that thing that hasn't shipped or even been reviewed yet, will likely weigh a ton, cost a lot and eat up a lot of real-estate? Ahh - ok.  .



(but yeah, it shows promise)

Heh, after a while, you can just tell what products will perform good. Especially since the regular ultra 120 is almsot on par with the tuniq, two of them stuck together, expanded and the heatpipes widened can only mean that it will perform as good as many watercoolers. Not to mention cost less, I think I'd be willing to put up with the weight