Gigabyte GA 965P-DS3P
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It is at stock sure like the default duo cooler is fine.
This is an overclockers website forum remember?
yes overclocks are failing eratic unstable due to the sub standard northbridge cooling.
Just look at the latest 650i boards with better cooling will be more stable.
That's why msi have made this 650i.If the cooling was upto the job for clockers
then boards like the below would not exist.
This is an overclockers website forum remember?
yes overclocks are failing eratic unstable due to the sub standard northbridge cooling.
Just look at the latest 650i boards with better cooling will be more stable.
That's why msi have made this 650i.If the cooling was upto the job for clockers
then boards like the below would not exist.
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geff_r said:No it's not i'm afaraid it's the heatsink that's why people are glueing small fans etc on them and or looking for aftermarket nbridge heatsinks the problem is its so close
to the cpu socket that it makes life difficult if using a big cpu cooler such as the tuniq tower.Just google ds3 northbridge temp too high.
And you'll see what i mean some guys just about fitted the noctua one and it's gone from 69c to 46 c.But forget it if you have a 120mm fan cooler just will not fit.
I'm not disagreeing with you, however my point is that the chipset shouldn't need aggressive cooling, it's either that the 965 northbridge in general is producing allot of heat, or a problem with the design of the Gigabyte boards.
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There is no problem with the heatsink for default voltages and default clocks.
It's when you want to overclock and need to raise voltages etc.
If it were fine and adequate then the countless ds3 owners/overclockers would not be looking at after market northbridge heatsinks.And after market heatsinks would not exist.
It's when you want to overclock and need to raise voltages etc.
If it were fine and adequate then the countless ds3 owners/overclockers would not be looking at after market northbridge heatsinks.And after market heatsinks would not exist.
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Yes this forum is full of them you search for yourself
why do you think people are getting bsods and hitting walls
instability could it be the north bridge getting too hot i wonder.
So you have your overclock without afan pointed at the nbridge?
I doubt it.I see your even on watercooling so kind of proves my point.
why do you think people are getting bsods and hitting walls
instability could it be the north bridge getting too hot i wonder.
So you have your overclock without afan pointed at the nbridge?
I doubt it.I see your even on watercooling so kind of proves my point.
geff_r said:
The DS3's nb has nothing to do with me being on water. I've had the nb block in my loop since Socket A days.
Incidentally, my nb is sitting at 31c atm.
That's under full load (folding on both cores) and max chipset voltages.
I think it's fair to say that the ds3 northbridge is inadequate
for overclocking i doubt anyones say on a 6300 at 3.4 ghz
and stable without a fan pointed at the north.
I am not saying it's a bad board i am saying the heatsink on it is not upto
the task for overclocking.Do a google search for ds3 north bridge temps too high.And you will see what i'm talking about.
for overclocking i doubt anyones say on a 6300 at 3.4 ghz
and stable without a fan pointed at the north.
I am not saying it's a bad board i am saying the heatsink on it is not upto
the task for overclocking.Do a google search for ds3 north bridge temps too high.And you will see what i'm talking about.
Ice Tea said:
Yes, but it'll have a hot northbridge too. Anyone hoping to be able to run 1500-2000MHz QFSB with the sort of temperatures used on Socket A or Socket 939 boards that ran at 200-300FSB tops is going to be disappointed.
I only know geff_r from his posting on here, and from that I do not believe he has any actual experience of using or overclocking Core2Duo processors yet he has repeatedly made derogatory statements about the ASUS P5N-E SLi, the Gigabyte P965 boards, the Abit 650i board and my own personal favourite in a Lian Li V1000 thread. In each case it is perfectly obvious that he is basing his comments on views he has developed from looking at photographs and his own experiences with pre-Core2Duo computer systems. These components may not be perfect, but they are the best that are available at the moment.
I can't touch the heatsinks on the Northbridge of my DS4's, P5NE-SLi or EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 and they all run folding@home 24/7 with decent overclocks applied. I can't touch the heatsinks on my A1 amplifier either, or the radiator on my car, but it doesn't matter because they are designed to run that hot for the lifetime of the components. If you want to overclock a CPU to almost double it's rated speed you should expect to be stressing a few components, surely?
I try extremely hard to be nice to everyone on these forums, but when someone is so consistently, overwhelmingly, negative about decent equipment I just can't help but think that he should stop upsetting people who have bought decent kit and now are annoyed with themselves because they have unrealistic expectations of what a massively overclocked Core2Duo should require in the way of cooling.
geff_r - if you've nothing positive to contribute - then please stop contributing until you do.