I own a OCUK ultima dreadnought. It has the GA-x58a-UD3R rev 2 mb.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-235-GI
I have been having problems with the northbridge overheating, on the stock bios (ver. FA) when the NB gets to a cirtain temp, the bios 'limits' it to protect it and bring the temprature down. This causes major dpc latency spikes for the duration and causes audio to stutter and pop and fps games become unplayable.
The latest bios ver FE, fixes this NB limiting and solves the important performance issues, I am about to upgrade the bios now (although concerned that ocuk will refuse to support my system after a bios upgrade).
However I am now worried about the Northbridge actually getting to dangerously high tempratures.
Because the cpu is watercooled, there isn't any of this extra air flow near the NB as you would get from the stock intel cooler. The system is of course preconfigured overclocked one so I was wondering if I could get some more cooling on the NB somehow. It is too hot to keep my finger on it after the system has been on (and this is without the FE bios that probably will allow the NB to get hotter).
I was wondering if a small fan like:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-030-AK
would work, but I have no idea how to attach it, I have never done something like this before (although it probably is simple, I am noob doing little additions like this).
You can see the NB heatsink on thats on there in the top link picture.
Since this overheating issue has so far crippled the system as a gaming rig, which is what I bought it for, should i contact OCUK customer service or something and try to negotiate a solution (maybe send me those fans for free or something) or is that too cheeky even though I payed over £1300 for this system!
I am also worried about doing a bios upgrade and ocuk say that because i changed it my oc is not supported anymore even though after doing extensive research this bios upgrade is the only definate solution to the peformance issues.
Thanks for any advice,
Mark.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-235-GI
I have been having problems with the northbridge overheating, on the stock bios (ver. FA) when the NB gets to a cirtain temp, the bios 'limits' it to protect it and bring the temprature down. This causes major dpc latency spikes for the duration and causes audio to stutter and pop and fps games become unplayable.
The latest bios ver FE, fixes this NB limiting and solves the important performance issues, I am about to upgrade the bios now (although concerned that ocuk will refuse to support my system after a bios upgrade).
However I am now worried about the Northbridge actually getting to dangerously high tempratures.
Because the cpu is watercooled, there isn't any of this extra air flow near the NB as you would get from the stock intel cooler. The system is of course preconfigured overclocked one so I was wondering if I could get some more cooling on the NB somehow. It is too hot to keep my finger on it after the system has been on (and this is without the FE bios that probably will allow the NB to get hotter).
I was wondering if a small fan like:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-030-AK
would work, but I have no idea how to attach it, I have never done something like this before (although it probably is simple, I am noob doing little additions like this).
You can see the NB heatsink on thats on there in the top link picture.
Since this overheating issue has so far crippled the system as a gaming rig, which is what I bought it for, should i contact OCUK customer service or something and try to negotiate a solution (maybe send me those fans for free or something) or is that too cheeky even though I payed over £1300 for this system!
I am also worried about doing a bios upgrade and ocuk say that because i changed it my oc is not supported anymore even though after doing extensive research this bios upgrade is the only definate solution to the peformance issues.
Thanks for any advice,
Mark.
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