NB and SB overheating on Striker 2 Formula

Smiler.Shaw

Smiler.Shaw

Smiler.Shaw

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Can I get some advice as having a few problems with my new PC.
I'm struggling to keep the system running for longer than 45 minutes during COD4 or anything else intensive as the NB and SB are heating up to 90 degrees and then system shuts down...
They idle at 40 degrees in BIOS but if you watch the BIOS for 30 minutes they raise to 80 degrees - is this a fualty board?

I have replaced the thermal compound on the chips with Artic silver 5 and have all my fans on max. Any ideas welcome??

Cheers
Steve :confused:

Coolmaster Cosmos RC1000 with 1000W power supply.
Asus striker 2 Formula
Intel 2 Quad 2.4 with Akasa 925
BFG 8800 Ultra
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Music
Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit
 
That seems a little high. Need some one who has said mobo to comment. I take it the cosmos has good case cooling?
 
are the chipset heatsinks hot to the touch - if not they arent making proper contact. if they are hot to the touch, see if blowing a fan directly over them helps.

also - try clearing the CMOS incase its some setting making it run hot.
 
passive cooling a 780i or even a 680i is a bad idea , try placing a 120mm fan blowing over the main chipset block (i do this for my p5k d to coll the chipset/ram) drops the temps for both nicely
 
I've read of people getting temps in the mid-seventies even when using a stacker 830/831 with EVERY fan bracket populated - which altogether, makes seven!!.

I'm no exception, even with a 120mm fan aimed directly at the heat sink I'm touching 80 degrees, probably hotter when under max load.

Some are advising to remove the block and apply MX-2...well done for trying smiler...though I'm afraid I have little enthusiasm for such suggestions...

If a 7 fanned case can't do the job, I'll just assume it's designed to run that hot and if it fails, or I'm dissatisfied. hurl it back at the retailer...hard!....sorry...starting to lose my patience:mad:.

I cannot for the life of me get this board stable even at stock...I run prime 95 25.5 (blend) on all 4 cores plus the RTHDRIBL rendering test and have yet to pass 6 hours without an IRQL NOT LESS/EQUAL BSOD, funny thing is, it ALWAYS happens around the 6 hour mark almost as if there's some kind of memory conflict....is there any chance that Vista (x86) has an issue with Prime with 4gbs installed...oh and 3x 8800s...I suspect not...but I have installed all of the hotfixes which I do believe make various adjustments to the way memory is addressed, so if anybody knows or believes they can get to the bottom of this...I'd appreciate it.

Current settings

BIOS

Memory - 2.16v (tried 2.18, don't want to go higher thanks) Timings manually set to 3-4-3-9-2T
VCore 1.267
NB 1.38

All else on auto.
 
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I would, though I'm 90% certain it would be the same story with the replacement.

Seen it so many times now. Had 2 Strikers (from different etailers, one 6 months after the first), both had identical flaws.

I have a gut feeling it's the memory. I don't think Nforce boards are upto running 4 sticks at timings this tight despite they're being completely memtest stable and despite the QVL claiming to be able to run D9GKX's in fours.

Thing is, slackening the timings never did any good in the past with these or similarly specified modules (in the original Striker or P5N32 series that is, intel boards never had any issues), if any stability was possible it was always at the EPP defaults.


So I either invest in alternate, lower voltage memory - in either 2x2gb or like yourself, 4x1gb - or sit tight for the x48 and prey those 3870x2s start singing sweetly in Crossfire X.
 
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Thanks for the advice. I'm going to try a fan directly onto the chip and have re-arranged the case to move the 8800 Ultra from abouve the SB chip to see if it can aid cooling, else I'm returning it as RMA.
Changing the Thermal paste has worked on the CPU as now running at 31 Degrees and MB is at 31 degrees but NB and SB are still hiking up to idle at 75 degrees and then loading to 90 after 30 minutes even with the board not in a case and in room temp of 18 degrees!

Have logged a call with ASUS too but there Technical supports is now closed due to Chinese New Year!

Anyone got a suggestion on another board if this fails? As fancy running 2 Ultra's in SLI shortly?

Coolmaster Cosmos RC1000 with 1000W power supply.
Asus striker 2 Formula
Intel 2 Quad 2.4 with Akasa 925
BFG 8800 Ultra
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Music
Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit
 
Good luck Smiler...reaching 90 outside the case?? :rolleyes::rolleyes::mad:

I can't entirely blame Asus for this, whilst battling with the original Striker, I did have the chance to try an MSI P6N Diamond - it died in two weeks...at stock settings...

When reading this and other forums, there are simply two many disgruntled Nforce users for it to be bad luck, incompetence, or a case of forcing boards to punch too far above their weight.

If anyone has time and is using Vista (x86) perhaps with SLI and drivers 169.25, download;

http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/archives/rthdribl_1_2.zip

and

ftp://mersenne.org/gimps/p95v255a.zip

Run the "Blend" test in Prime - it is selected automatically when you open - together with RTHDRIBL (first link) and see if you can reach the 10 hour mark...tedious I know, but any info would help a great deal.
 
You should send it back and order an XFX or EVGA mobo instead which comes with a northbridge fan.

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I think ocuk are getting stock very soon. I gave up on Asus/nforce boards after having problem after problem. Striker Extreme and the new 780i's.
 
I remember you had issues with the P5N-T.

I'm certain I'm not dealing with a heat problem here though, I had the case door open, a 120mm fan pointed right at the NB, and still got the IRQL_NOT LESS/EQUAL BSOD after 4 hours of this stress test. With the door closed and every setting the same...I reached 7 1/2 hours before crash occurred

I note you are only using 2 sticks of memory, I'm sure that would help, but I really would like to get these 4 working at their rated speed if at all possible.
 
Ranger07 said:
You should send it back and order an XFX or EVGA mobo instead which comes with a northbridge fan.

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I think ocuk are getting stock very soon. I gave up on Asus/nforce boards after having problem after problem. Striker Extreme and the new 780i's.
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or just get a motherboard that runs cooler in the first place lol. no such temperature problems with the likes of the ip35-pro. i wouldnt personally put up with anything like that from a motherboard costing the best part of 200 quid.
 
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Yeah it could be the extra ram, I'll find out soon as im gonna drop another 2 gig in at some point, i'll let you know if mine becomes unstable.

I take it you've tried upping the voltage slightly on your ram ?
 
Oh yes indeed, I've tried:).

But I'm not going over 2.2...already lost 3 sticks of Dominators in the Striker by doing so.

It's not just the fact there's 4 either, it's the tight timings (3-4-3-9), but they've worked so well in other boards and the QVL insists 4 sticks with
D9GKX chips is possible.
 
The Striker 2 has two optional fans in it's packaging. Do fitting these make any significant difference to temps? Mine are pretty much obscured by my thermalight cpu cooler, but if it does help I may fit the one which will squeeze in and look at one of those clip on directional fans to point at the other.
 
I was always under the impression those were specifically for use with water cooling setups ie. those where the user had only placed a water block on the CPU but left the other stock cooling in place, hence no airflow from a cpu cooler.
 
If it's anything like the 680i then the official advice was to use the included optional fans if you were doing ANY overclocking, if they're there, I'd use them and turn them down a bit in the bios.
 
Hmm looks like I'll send the motherboard back then and try the XFX board as this maybe better...
I'm just so annoyed that ASUS have these problems but don't help by changing their boards or only recommend them for Water cooled systems!
 
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