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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.

WTF.

i avoid msi, gigabyte, and ecs......

other than dfi, asus was my preferred board. i found this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131655, but it was 30 more dollars. asus has always made high quality boards, but the specs were so similar on these two boards (they both even have 3 year warranties) that i couldnt justify paying the extra money for the asus. the msi advertises being able to run ram up to 2133mhz whereas the asus only advertised 2000mhz.

the only thing getting on my nerves now is that i cannot clock my cpu as high. my ram is performing great at 1800mhz though.

(03-19-2011, 07:19 AM)Squall Leonhart Wrote: [ -> ]WTF.

i avoid msi, gigabyte, and ecs......

Why
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What brand do you use

(03-19-2011, 09:44 AM)ryancollins Wrote: [ -> ]

(03-19-2011, 07:19 AM)Squall Leonhart Wrote: [ -> ]WTF.

i avoid msi, gigabyte, and ecs......

Why
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What brand do you use

prolly asus, ha.

ASUS is one of the best motherboard brands I have used for building.
For my last build (Dragon) I decided I go for an ASUS/AMD combo and that was some money well spent.

28 degrees idle on all 6 cores and 38-42 degrees playing Dolphin isn't to shabby and the GPU never goes past 62 degrees, it circles around 58-62.
Probably maybe not the best temps but certainly temps I can live with.

Nighthawk has an MSI board with a Intel/NVIDIA combo and the temepratures is a huge difference.

Sure there is many factors counting in here but clearly every ASUS MB build have resulted in lower temps.

The aftermath is that with the answers at hand I'm not going to use anything else then ASUS/AMD combos in the future.
They have some serious value for all your money.

btw, an update to this is that i finally got it clocked at ~3.8ghz with ram at 920 (1840) mhz. passed 24hours of prime95, the chipsets remain cool, but my cpu gets in the high 60's.



the h70 cpu cooler had shin etsu paste on it from the factory. when i installed it on the new board, i used AS5. i guess thats why i'm netting like 10'c hotter temps... at least i reseated it twice just to be sure and got the same temps both times. eventually i plan on getting some shin estu, i just have so much AS5 lying around.

High 60's isn't that bad at all, it would be more worrisome if it was high 70's
Anyway congrats!!