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I've had issues with the VRM MOS temperature on my Gigabyte Gaming 3 motherboard and found this to be limiting my overclock.
At 4.0ghz the extra volts needed pushed my VRM temp to over 125c and crashing my system.
I'm interested to know what kind of temperatures you guys get for your motherboards.
I've resorted to having this duct printed to help cool the VRMs. It definitely helps, replaced my case exhaust fan. I managed to mod the design for 140mm fans which I'm now using.
120mm Fan
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1492961
140mm x 55mm - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2208560
140mm x 40mm - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2208591
Download the latest HWinfo beta to check the temperatures.
https://www.fosshub.com/HWiNFO.html
VRM duct test
1700 @3.9ghz 1.31v - Gigabyte Gaming 3 Motherboard
Premiere exporting video.
VRM Duct + 140mm Fan (1/2 max speed) - 80c max
No VRM Duct - 110c + (temperature was still climbing)
At 4.0ghz the extra volts needed pushed my VRM temp to over 125c and crashing my system.
I'm interested to know what kind of temperatures you guys get for your motherboards.
I've resorted to having this duct printed to help cool the VRMs. It definitely helps, replaced my case exhaust fan. I managed to mod the design for 140mm fans which I'm now using.
120mm Fan
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1492961
140mm x 55mm - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2208560
140mm x 40mm - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2208591
Download the latest HWinfo beta to check the temperatures.
https://www.fosshub.com/HWiNFO.html
VRM duct test
1700 @3.9ghz 1.31v - Gigabyte Gaming 3 Motherboard
Premiere exporting video.
VRM Duct + 140mm Fan (1/2 max speed) - 80c max
No VRM Duct - 110c + (temperature was still climbing)

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