Intel DH55HC overheating

BorisTheAnimal

BorisTheAnimal

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Hi,

my friends motherboard is heating up a little bit too much, for example playing Counter Strike Source for about 3 hours got the motherboard temp up to a steady 100C.

Now the simple question is, should my friend buy a new motherboard or just find a better cooling solution, ps I don't know any other details about his system than this so please be patient with getting info..

Cheers & Thanks in advance!
 
Has it actually been cleaned? There is no way a system playing CS:S should be anywhere near that temp even with a stock cooler. I would say open the side and blast it out with a compressor/can of compressed air paying attention to the cooler and fans but make sure you hold the blades or it can damage the bearings. If its a stock cooler take it off, clean off thermal compound and reapply. I would say that would normally sort the problem out if not get an aftermarket cooler. Shouldn't really spend more than £25 for that age system.
 
ZXSpectrum said:
Has it actually been cleaned? There is no way a system playing CS:S should be anywhere near that temp even with a stock cooler. I would say open the side and blast it out with a compressor/can of compressed air paying attention to the cooler and fans but make sure you hold the blades or it can damage the bearings. If its a stock cooler take it off, clean off thermal compound and reapply. I would say that would normally sort the problem out if not get an aftermarket cooler. Shouldn't really spend more than £25 for that age system.
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Thanks for the reply,

will have to check inside the case next time we meet.. Can't really say if he has a good cooling solution, and I personally know that no game should take the motherboard up to those temps or well those that I know of would not do it..
 
Could be a reading of the chipset sat under the low profile passive heatsink on the board. They quite easily get very hot when boards are under load and there's no directed airflow. Especially as the GPU will likely sit over the area making airflow even worse.

I'd try getting it up to temperature again and then place a fan in a position that blows over it or at least near it if the GPU is partially covering it. Then see if the temperature drops. If it does then you know that the reading's coming from that area and can act. Either install a fan to blow over that area or upgrade the heatsink to something like a Thermalright HR-05 (or SLI version if the GPU is fouling the area).

EDIT - I've done similar in the past on two or three different motherboards with great success. My old intel 965 board had a NB temp of 90c before I swapped it for something like the Thermalright above (no fan installed) and the temperature dropped to 40c.
 
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Try carefully touching the heatsinks (or near them if you don't want to touch them) to see where the high temperature is. If it is reading the temperature from where a heatsink is the top of it shouldn't be as hot as it says as it's likely to read the temperature from under so if you quickly touch you should be okay (but first hover your hand over it to see if you can feel any heat incase it is scorching :p)

My friends computer had one fan and no gpu and the southbridge got very hot even at idle, to the point where you couldn't hold your finger on it for more than few seconds. Even a tiny bit of airflow has a big affect on temperatures with small passive heatsinks :)
 
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