Mini-ITX Board Choice...

It's got an 80mm fan exhausing hot air out, not a lot of room for anything else. I wouldn't say it's great, but tbh it's not a lot of difference temp-wise with the top off the case.
 
90 on a HR05 doesn't make any sense at all... something has to be wrong with the seating of the heatsink - it shouldn't get any higher than the stock thats for sure. The dissipation of heat from the pipe and fins should easily compensate for a chip like the T7500.
I assume you have the HR05 running long ways down the case which limits the air draw threw it? As long as there is some air movement in the case it should be fine.

I'd double check the surface connection maybe out of the case, but if a ZM-NB47J can keep my T2600 at 32 degrees in a cubit3 and my TRUE120 passive keeps my Q6600 at 34 I can't see how the HR05 would be that bad. I even run a HR03+ on my 8800GTX passive and don't get near those temps.

That or your temp sensor is faulty. Better fan?
 
Hi loaky, I've got a Commell 679 too with a T7800 2.6Ghz Cpu on it in a tranquil T2e case.

Im not sure what heat sink your using now, but i'm using the Psile PSM-5000 with a 120mm fan sitting above it.

Im not having any cooling issues and my operating system (Ubuntu) clocks it down and isnt always running it at full speed.

The stock heat sink that comes with the motherboard is just horrid. if your using that, give the PSM-5000 a go
 
Excellent it's good to find someone with the same board and an (almost) identical chip! Thanks for the tip, I saw those a while ago but thought being passive it'd be worse than the one i've got with the fan on top. Might be worth considering.

I think at the end of the day I spanged £16 on a heatsink that didn't really fit, I had to bodge it with the fittings from the original and didn't seat right. And everything I watch can be transcoded on the multipliers i'm playing with, even when locked onto 6x, I might just leave it as is. Does seem a bit like buying a 911 Turbo and slapping a 25mph limiter on it, but i'm bored of pulling my hair out!
 
That's a FAIL right there! Thought what's the harm in updating it, well re-flashing it. Anyway long story short massive pause and nothing happened, turned it off and on, yep the dreaded beeps of a FUBARed BIOS! :eek:
 
oh dear, sorry to hear that. it isnt a cheap mobo too!

well if you got a spare cpu around that would work, i'd try tgiving that a go incase the cpu fried during the reflash.
 
Seems to me it's just corrupted the BIOS at a guess. Now i've got to magic a floppy drive from somewhere, and the slim cable that came with the board! and a floppy! Happy days!

All that is providing it has the recovery booting from floppy malarky.. every search i've done has pulled up pages from 2004-2005! :eek:
 
2004-05?!! it cant be that old. i must have got mine in 2008...

well if you ever get back to a state where you want to reflash again, just make sure u do one of those checksum checks, just incase the bios file is messed up
 
Just in case anyone is interested in developments in the BIOS repair, or the lack of them. I've started a thread in a more suitable sub-forum.. look here.

EDIT: Back working and booting!
 
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If i'm honest I was ready to arrange the funeral for it, I'm amazed it did it! Interesting that it does support USB floppy drives though. Maybe does support CD's too, don't think i'll break it again to find out though! haha
 
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