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Asus Striker Extreme

@ 2007/06/08

It looks ridiculous, balancing an oscilation fan atop the motherboard, but it was the best method I could find to help keep the chipset cool. Honestly, a person could burn themselves on the Strikers chipset heatsinks and heatpipes they are that hot. I has me thinking that most (if not all) NVIDIA 680i chipset owners and overclockers will probably leave the side door off their case, pointing a big fan inside, kinda like I have done.

Comment from jmke @ 2007/06/08

put the blame on choice of CPU cooler, Asus and other tests with reference heatsinks, they blow air over those heat pipes surrounding the CPU socket; by installing the Noctua tower you're deviating from the norm and thus no longer have the setup they tested their NB cooling with;

Comment from thorgal @ 2007/06/08

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Originally Posted by jmke

limited FSB OC then? nForce 4 chipset was hot too, nForce 6 added more heat it seems

Indeed, this was the reason of limited oc capacity with stock heatsink. Watercooling it should help.

The DFI board has a lot less trouble here, but has an elaborate cooler for the NB which can be actively cooled (and needs it if you increase voltages above stock). More on that later

Comment from jmke @ 2007/06/08

limited FSB OC then? nForce 4 chipset was hot too, nForce 6 added more heat it seems; the striker's cooling is designed to work with heatsinks which blow air down onto the mainboard, tower coolers are less effective for this kind of heat pipe setup

Comment from thorgal @ 2007/06/08

I measured the heatsink temp once on an Asus 680i : without a fan it got quickly over 100°C, with a fan applied it was still 65°C+, burning hot in other words...

Comment from Sidney @ 2007/06/08

Hotter than my motorcyle exhaust pipes and my Browning O/U after 4 rounds of trap (100 shots)

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