heh, well i got a new motherboard (msi 890fx-gd65). i hooked everything up, booted the pc, and immediately looked at the temperatures in bios. only system and cpu temp were shown and both of them were in the low 30's. so i then install windows, and then run hwmonitor the second i get to desktop. the f'ing NB was 90'c!!!!!!!!!!!
so i tried to shut it down, but it bluescreened in the process thereof. well... i didnt feel like having to send it back so i took it back out of the case, took the NB cooler off, cleaned it, and applied arctic silver. that alone brought my temps down to 60'c under full load (a slight improvement over 98'c at idle). that wasnt good enough for me however, so i used 3M double sided tape and stuck a 3 inch fan to it. now i am getting 50'c under full load with ram at 1800mhz...
the weird thing is, i cannot get my cpu stable past 3.75mhz. on my last board it was stable up to about 4.0ghz. it is a trade off though because before i couldn't get my ram past 1600mhz and now it is at 1800. the nb chip on this board seems better because my nb frequency is stable at 2500mhz whereas before it wasnt stable past 2200.
so i tried to shut it down, but it bluescreened in the process thereof. well... i didnt feel like having to send it back so i took it back out of the case, took the NB cooler off, cleaned it, and applied arctic silver. that alone brought my temps down to 60'c under full load (a slight improvement over 98'c at idle). that wasnt good enough for me however, so i used 3M double sided tape and stuck a 3 inch fan to it. now i am getting 50'c under full load with ram at 1800mhz...
the weird thing is, i cannot get my cpu stable past 3.75mhz. on my last board it was stable up to about 4.0ghz. it is a trade off though because before i couldn't get my ram past 1600mhz and now it is at 1800. the nb chip on this board seems better because my nb frequency is stable at 2500mhz whereas before it wasnt stable past 2200.