Intel P35 boards- chipset temp?

badbob · 26 Jan 2008 at 23:37

How hot do the Intel P35 based northbridge/southbridge chipsets get? Do you really need both with heatpipes, or would two normal heatsinks be ok? Case ventilation is pretty good (two 12cm case fans) I'll be overclocking.

It's just that boards with pipes are a fair bit more expensive.

WJA96 · 26 Jan 2008 at 23:45

The best I've used are the Gigabyte P35-DS4 Rev 1.0 or P35-DQ6 Rev 1.0 and the OcUK IP35-Pro, all of which run stone cold at stock, and the Gigabytes don't heat up much as up the voltages either.

The OcUK IP35-Pro board is significantly better proposition with the v1.3 BIOS and you generally don't need to up the chipset volts too much under 400MHz, so it stays pretty cool despite the wimpy heatsink.

Topitoff · 27 Jan 2008 at 01:51

P35 chipsets are not supposed to get that warm.

I am priming my E8400 @4.05Ghz (450x9), atm it's done 9hrs and the standard (not heatpipe) NB cooler on the GA-P35-S3 is only warm to the touch, reported temp is 43c.

My view is buy the cheapest P35 board with the features you must have.

WJA96 · 27 Jan 2008 at 07:42

Topitoff said:
P35 chipsets are not supposed to get that warm.

I am priming my E8400 @4.05Ghz (450x9), atm it's done 9hrs and the standard (not heatpipe) NB cooler on the GA-P35-S3 is only warm to the touch, reported temp is 43c.

My view is buy the cheapest P35 board with the features you must have.

Most of the early ASUS boards ran very hot indeed, and the newer Gigabyte boards (Rev 1.1 and Rev 2.0) run pretty warm. I'm not really sure it makes that much difference though.