kimosabi

580FSB

Thats a nice OC there mate!

*edit* Is it a dice-run?

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Ledge68

No, this is all on air. It is super "Ice" cold in my room seeing how it's only 9.6F outside right now! I live in a old drafty farm house and in the winter I get to OC with a blanket on me!

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stn0092

Yep, a hot northbridge is killing my overclock. Before I left for class this morning, I pointed an 80mm fan at it and the blend was still running when I got back four hours later and the nothbridge was barely lukewarm. I took the fan off, restarted the blend and it failed after fourty minutes; it's hecka hot.

Also, irrelevant but the rest of the house is a chilly 68°F while my room is nice and warm at 76-77°F (sensor shows 24.7-25°C ambient). =D

EDIT: Installed my HR-05...

The mosfet heatsink can be removed from the heatpipe. Remove both heatsinks from the board and just keep twisting and pulling until it slides off.




Mosfet heatsink with heatpipe removed




HR-05.




The Gigabyte faceplate is held on by adhesive so I took it off...




And put it on the new one!!




All that red is ruining this blue theme I have going now.

TFL Replica

RANT:
I think it's time motherboards shipped with the NB/SB heatsinks detached. I'm sick of replacing the paste and/or heatsink on virtually every single motherboard I buy, or having to use an antec spotcool or zip tying an ugly 40mm fan.

CPUs come with separate heatsinks why can't motherboards or atleast (*gasp*) MOST enthusiast motherboards do the same?

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Enyalius

The problem is, most n00bs out there won't know to add a heat sink/fan to their NB/SB. That's way too many RMAs for either the manufacturer or the retail store to deal with.

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arjo_reich

You have to look at it in terms of Quality Control... you can't test it without the coolers on and taking the coolers back off after it passes invalidates the test (operator damage during removal)

It's kind of a chicken before the egg problem and solutions that would allow you to have your cake and eat it too in this regard would be more expensive than the increased revenue it would provide. :shrug:

N1ESE

error10 - I'm building a new Linux workstation using this board and I'm wondering if you know if lm-sensors can detect and read all the sensors used on this board? Thanks.

arjo_reich

With my VID manually set to 1.2750 my VCore still stays very low - which I'm assuming is the LLC in action, right?

Well, on one hand it's cool to be able to get up to a 378FSB and still only hit 1.252v under load / 1.232v idle... On the other hand, I can't seem to be able to get to a stable 400FSB (BSOD's on 0x50 & 0x1024, IIRC) and part of me wonders if it's not somehow related. Any advice would be most appreciated...

Additionally, it's interesting how OCCT reports the 12v when LLC is enabled...



Should I be turning LLC off to get up to a 400 FSB is ultimately the question I'm posing...

error10

Yep, works great.

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kimosabi

So i have been OCing this board for a while now and failed to get 4.2gHz stable. And just for the hell of it i slammed everything back to stock and manually set all voltages/dram/cpu values.
Now i run it at 333mHz FSB and 1066mHz RAM.
The PC works like a charm now and its actually faster when surfing etc. than it was at 4.0gHz.
Hmmm, im wondering if i maybe started my OC in the wrong end?

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