Overheating Motherboard.

Robertnpmk · 18 Dec 2011 at 21:28

Hi,

After getting a BSOD I decided to run prime on my sandybridge system to see what was going on.

After going away and coming back after an hour I had no errors but a warning from my Asus ai suite that I had a high motherboard temperature. I thought OK nothing much to worry about, but when I open the sensor for the ai suite my mobo is showing at 105 degrees.

I set my case fans on high but im still running at 90 degrees.

Whats a safe temperature and what can I do about this? Theres nothing restricting air flow in the case, all fans are still working, no major dust on them.

Ideas?

Robertnpmk · 18 Dec 2011 at 21:40

Ok restarted my computer and changed some of my VRM overclock setting for temperature rather than power and its down to 22 degrees.

strumpusplunket · 18 Dec 2011 at 22:05

Yeah, it's a false reading. Lots of people get them. I had one the other day telling me my motherboard was at 119C!

Whilst I wasn't sure if this was even possible, I shut down, felt the mobo heatsinks (barely warm) and restarted. Motherboard was 20C in BIOS and in AI Suite.

Now even if 119C was possible in the first place, there is certainly no way it could have cooled to 20C in less than 30 or 40 seconds.

Seems a lot of people have these readings intermittently, at around 115-125C. I don't think anybody really thinks they're accurate.

pgi947 · 18 Dec 2011 at 22:07

Had this as well, must be an Asus thing, came out of a game (skyrim) and had AI Suite warnings saying my MB temp was 100+c, freaked out, rebooted a few times and it disappeared, not seen it since!

Robertnpmk · 18 Dec 2011 at 22:07

Ah thanks for the info, might put my overclock setting back then, lol.

it is the first time I have got these errors.

pgi947 · 18 Dec 2011 at 22:08

I did the same tbh, rebooted, killed OC, freaked out some-more, realised it was an Asus problem, restored OC, happy days.