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8th June 2007, 05:03 | #1 |
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| Asus Striker Extreme 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. http://neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardwa...riker_extreme/
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8th June 2007, 05:08 | #2 |
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| Hotter than my motorcyle exhaust pipes and my Browning O/U after 4 rounds of trap (100 shots)
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8th June 2007, 09:43 | #3 |
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| 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... |
8th June 2007, 10:33 | #4 |
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| 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
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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 | |
8th June 2007, 10:38 | #6 |
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| 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;
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