NB Temps on a P5NE-sli !!

ferret face · 22 Feb 2007 at 01:12

My fan controller is saying the temps are 79 degrees on the NB cooler is that ok? Its very hot to touch!!

I am overclocking with volts at 1.563 on the NB

Anyone??

Minstadave · 22 Feb 2007 at 02:19

Have you got a diode on the heatsink?

The P5N-E chipset gets roasting hot, with your NB voltage you have to have a fan blowing over it, just to stay stable. I just fitted one of these to mine this evening:

Seems to be doing well so far

silversurfer · 22 Feb 2007 at 02:46

Ive fitted a therometer to my NB and it reads 120F at worst, roughly 50c
Im using mine at 1.7v too. I have a 80mm fan right next to it, I presume you have no fan on it?
Probably no worse then a gpu saying the same thing, I dont know how durable chipsets are but Ive not heard of anyone having this motherboard fail for this reason

ferret face · 22 Feb 2007 at 10:35

cheers guys.. I've placed a temp sensor on the NB heatsink and just got a bit worried when I saw the temp shoot up

Kinsy · 22 Feb 2007 at 12:40

Get a fan on it. I screwed a AMD stock HSF Fan & Shroud onto mine, this works quite well blowing over the whole area.

If your using max chipset voltage you may also want to consider cooling the south bridge.

ferret face · 22 Feb 2007 at 14:41

can i just ask...is it true that the NB is ok to run at high temps??
I don't have a fan to attach at the mo and I dont really have much room for anything else in my case

Minstadave · 22 Feb 2007 at 16:36

ferret face said:
can i just ask...is it true that the NB is ok to run at high temps??
I don't have a fan to attach at the mo and I dont really have much room for anything else in my case

As soon as my NB gets hot I start running into instability, without a fan I can't get into windows at 3.6ghz, with a fan I'm orthos stable.

ferret face · 22 Feb 2007 at 17:53

ok cheers Dave but mines unstable at 2700

WJA96 · 22 Feb 2007 at 18:13

ferret face said:
ok cheers Dave but mines unstable at 2700

Yes, but yours is an E4300 isn't it? Please list your complete system specs and we'll try and help.

ferret face · 22 Feb 2007 at 18:30

ok cheers guys..here it is

Corsair 620W Psu
E4300
Asus P5ne-sli
2GB Geil PC6400c
8800GTS
Scythe Ninja cooler
Mem voltage at 2.259
Core at Auto +100mv
NB volts at 1.563

Keep getting blue screens of death and often corrupting windows

thanks

Ferret

WJA96 · 22 Feb 2007 at 18:47

Right try taking the VCore off AUTO and set it to 1.375V. If that's not stable, then try 1.4V, but I think 1.375 should be stable.

Are you running linked/sync or unlinked?

ferret face · 22 Feb 2007 at 18:49

ok will do..I'm running linked-sync mode

WJA96 · 22 Feb 2007 at 18:55

ferret face said:
ok will do..I'm running linked-sync mode

And you're running LINKED and SYNC MODE, not 1:1 or anything else?

ferret face · 22 Feb 2007 at 18:59

thats right linked-sync mode only at FSB of 1200 my memory is at 300mhz

although i have just looked in CPUZ and it says 1:1, is that right

cheers

Ferret

WJA96 · 22 Feb 2007 at 19:23

ferret face said:
thats right linked-sync mode only at FSB of 1200 my memory is at 300mhz

OK - because it has been known for people with phenomenal RAM to have these things set at 1:1 and the CPU is running 300/1200 and the RAM is running 600/1200!

ferret face · 22 Feb 2007 at 19:33

cheers ..I have set the vcore to 1.375 as you said and cpuz is saying its at 1.213v ??

but it booted up at 2700 core speed with memory at 300mhz

isnt that vcore a bit low?

WJA96 · 22 Feb 2007 at 20:08

ferret face said:
cheers ..I have set the vcore to 1.375 as you said and cpuz is saying its at 1.213v ??

but it booted up at 2700 core speed with memory at 300mhz

isnt that vcore a bit low?

CPUz is only reporting the value from the monitoring chip, which reports values that are marginally better than guessing....

So, are you gong to try for 1350 (3GHz)?

ferret face · 22 Feb 2007 at 20:20

yes thats what I want but windows just crashed at 1248FSB

I am now back at 1200

any ideas?

Thanks for your help

Ferret

silversurfer · 22 Feb 2007 at 20:27

Asus boards almost always undervolt and this is the same. If it didnt, my actual voltage would be 1.6v but its more like 1.5v which then drops under load even further to 1.45v.

Try 1707 QDR and change the multipler to 6x in the bios. Then move it up gradually in windows

ferret face · 22 Feb 2007 at 21:14

yes I'd like to but my windows would not load at 1248

Not sure what to do now..

any ideas?