A7V600 Mobo temps

My A7V600 seems to have a rather high mobo temp, It runs at 34°c on hot days. and 31°c on cooler days. The thing is, its only running 2 to 3 degrees cooler than my cpu at idle. (stock XP3200+ for now) Is this normal for this chipset? I have good case flow. and this is a worker, not a gamer, used for DVD work and photo editing. Should I add a fan to the northbridge?

have u the lastest bios version?

I imagine you're running it at 333 FSB, and usually the stock cooler is just enough. 35C isn't nearly too hot for a chip of its kind, so I doubt you would see a difference if you added a heatsink with a fan. But, later, come time dust settles in, it might aleviate some of the chance of it ever becoming unstable. Eventually it will work it's way up a few more degrees.

Mine ran at about 35 C on a normal day so I reckon your is fine. Plus I live in a relatively colder climate by the looks of it. Don't worry.

With my A7V600 and 2500xp @ 11x200fsb with 1.75vcore setting in bios which is actually displayed as 1.71vcore in bios hardware monitor and MBM & Asus probe. In a warm room and a Chieftech Dragon case with 5X 80mm-32 cfm rated fans. With the fans setup as follows:

2 front intake, 2 rear exhaust and 1 side fan intake

Mobo temp = 27 C average room temp.
=29 C very warm room

CPU Idle temp. = 43 C average room temp.
= 45 C very warm room