Sidney

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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lazyman

Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II

Sidney

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

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lazyman

Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II

thorgal

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...

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jmke

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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thorgal

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

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jmke

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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