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dcataldo   05-27-2009 at 05:28:24 PM

Ok my question is what’s an average temperature for the extreme motherboard running on air cooling. these are my specs:
ga-ex58-extreme
i7 920 (stocker fan)
SUPER TALENT 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)
2x Western Digital Raptor 74GB running in RAID 0
2x 8800GTX in SLI
2x LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner
COOLER MASTER Stacker 830 Evolution

I am using Lavalys EVEREST Ultimate Edition to monitor my temps so running at idol my cpu idols around 25 deg Celsius and the motherboard and Northbridge are at 55. Then I ran prime95 for about an hr cpu hit about 65deg Celsius and motherboard and NB hit around 60.

I added few more fans to my case: 3 on the side as intake the top as exhaust and another one in the front as intake as back as exhaust. As well reapplied article silver # 5 to Northbridge

My PC runs fine I am just curious to see what the average temps of the motherboard are. I found an article that some over clocked the 920 to 4.0ghz and his temps we half of mine.

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Silver Motherboards badge bilbat   05-28-2009 at 03:54:19 PM
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First obvious problem is: "(stocker fan)."
The included Intel coolers are marginal; anything you buy aftermarket will at least double or triple the cooling capacity.

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dcataldo   05-29-2009 at 06:40:19 PM
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Funny you say that because yesterday i bought Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 120mm SSO CPU Cooler [url=Noctua HeatSink][/url] and it dropped my CPU by 10deg but my NB and mobo still the same. So my question is whats the average temp for extreme mobo

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gbinf-kdover   08-01-2009 at 09:06:39 AM
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I have the same board i used the crappy watercooled nb and it made no diffrence if i used the silly heatpipe exchange with or on its own it made it run 4 degrees hotter as it was soaking heat from gpu . I was at similar temps with mb and nb as yourself and i had watercooled cpu . I decided to buy the ek mosfet nb/sb set that did manage to change temps but nothing spectacular to be honest but i have my 940@4ghz it was on stock speeds then i was getting them temps now it has higher voltages on nb etc and i am getting idle temps of 36oC on nb and once it has had load for a while it rises 10oC and sticks at that temp i will say tho it has made no diffrence watsoever to the mb temp it may be that the sensor is directly next to pci-e or summat because im sure its the cards doing this to the mb temp, sli 280 stock coolers get rather hot these will be liquid cooled also next month hopefully so i will let u no if that makes a diffrence for me, i bloody hope so because i even tried more fans which made about a 1-2 degree diffrence it does seem hot for tho mb@60oc on load . Another thing b4 i 4get the original chipset cooler especicially the sb area is a terrible design if u ever come to pull it off you will see wat i mean 1 little crappy flattened heat pipe connected to copper base the ultra durable is just a crappy ali shroud .

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dcataldo   08-02-2009 at 07:18:52 PM
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gbinf-kbdover Thanks for replay I just bought the coolermaster haf (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119160) and it droped my nb mb by 10deg so idols around 50. When i got prime95 the temps for mb and nb went up 5 deg so both were at 55. I also jsut installed AC filters on my case to stop dust from coming in my case and i ran prime95 for about 2hrs temps went up 5deg (which is ovious bc i have the filters on). My cpu with Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 temps stay at 40 on idol and 45 on load. The mobo and NB hit about 56-60 with prime running (920 @3.5ghz) all on air by way so i assuming this is average. Let me know if you get any updates. Thanks for replay again.


Message edited by dcataldo on 08-12-2009 at 03:38:22 PM
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