Asus P5B deluxe cooling

Beerbaron

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My southbridge was getting really hot to touch so decided to remove the heatsink (the thermal compound was solid) so ive got one of these to replace it.

Enzotech SLF-1
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I have since taken off the northbridge / mosfet heatsink which wasnt even fully touching the chip as was loose. Is it worth replacing this with something better as i have already removed it? The PC isnt currently overclocked.

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Thanks.
 
Not if you're running stock speeds. Good work tho! That there p5b deluxe is one of the finest motherboards ever made.
 
bfar said:
Not if you're running stock speeds. Good work tho! That there p5b deluxe is one of the finest motherboards ever made.
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Not sure what they were thinking when they put that metal case on the northbridge heatsink as it holds in a fair amount of heat :D


I bought an Enzotech CNB-S1 cooler and a MST-81 mosfet cooler

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I have an E8600 and 4gb OCZ PC6400 so will see how it overclocks. As i took the mobo out ive sorted out some good airflow in the case.
 
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I too had one of these boards.... Never noticed what you've just pointed out. However will agree. It was a beast of a board. Still is... Very expensive when first released as well.

Good work.
 
Beerbaron said:
Any idea what these boards are like for overclocking?
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Mine had a E6600 and managed to get a 2.4 running on air (artic freezer pro) at 3.0 and was very stable and temps were idle below 34...

9 * 333 but I had to mess about with the CPU volts a tad, and the memory I had running was at 667. Need to up to the volts on the memory otherwise it wasn't stable, 2.15v and timmings had to set manually...

I found that once you moved into OC with this board leaving most stuff at auto caused problems.... Wish I could remember my whole settings...

Was an excellent little clocker, and with newer BIOS could even use a Q6600 however not too sure how they'd overclock, as I never got my mitts on one...

I know it has a problem past 4GB of memory, and TBH, its happier with 2 x 2GB as opposed to 4 x 1GB. I had troubles getting it stable with all memory slots used and OC the E6600 but i got it working in the end... just slowly increased settings till I got it stable with 9 * 333 and DDR 667. 4 x 1GB memory puts a lot of load on the memory bus. Still it can handle it with some tender loving care.. lol
 
Im currently running my e6600 at 3.2ghz, a modest overclock but will be increasing it next week. I did have it running at 3.6, but had some strange problems. In reducing the overclock, I found the problem was non-related, so I'll be upping it again. Never had a problem with the board, but I'm looking at a q6600 atm, just for the extra ooomph. You reckon it's worth it?
 
Board does support 8GB but I'm sure I read you need to update the bios, and you need to change the memoy remapping in the BIOS.

Now I'm also sure I read that there was a limitation on the speed of the memory using 8GB but I can't remember.

I did however notice with the link provided that the board does actually support a Q8400

http://uk.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=bswT66IBSb2rEWNa

Didn't know that... You need to update the BIOS to 1238... Thats pretty cool, always was a great little board..!!
 
Im currently using the latest bios so thats not an issue

Memory support is excellent with up to 8GB of dual channel DDR2 supported across four memory slots. Chipset support stops at 800MHz, but ASUS offer an 889MHz and a 1066MHz (1:1) option when running at 1066MHz FSB
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I couldnt get the EnzotechMST-81 mosfet cooler due to lack of stock so settled for a Thermalright HR-09 Type 2 U-TYPE MOSFET Heatpipe Cooler instead.


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