- Joined
- May 8, 2012
- Location
- Argentina
I want to share my experience with the Xigmatek product and my motherboard:
The installation should have been less complicated then it was for me for two reasons; first I did not feel like removing the CPU Cooler and second my large hands, it was still fairly straightforward after I thoroughly read the manual.
The only issue is that to properly align the heatstink on the northbridge I had to block the first PCI-E 16x, forcing me to move my GPU to the second PCI-E 16x slot (which makes the GPU run a few degrees hotter). At least now the heatstink barely warms up when I touch it (which is the only way to check the temperature, IMHO) since I'm almost convince that the TMP2 sensor is not the northbridge, no matter what Gigabyte says. Is just a another readout of the CPU temp.
Example 1; if I suspend my PC, then that temp becomes a copy of the CPU temp.
Example 2: if I enable "Core unlocking" on the BIOS that temp becomes LOCKED (min and max) no matter what.
Example 3: HWiNFO64 names the MB sensors in this order; Motherboard, Northbridge and CPU.
Here is a picture of how it looks
The installation should have been less complicated then it was for me for two reasons; first I did not feel like removing the CPU Cooler and second my large hands, it was still fairly straightforward after I thoroughly read the manual.
The only issue is that to properly align the heatstink on the northbridge I had to block the first PCI-E 16x, forcing me to move my GPU to the second PCI-E 16x slot (which makes the GPU run a few degrees hotter). At least now the heatstink barely warms up when I touch it (which is the only way to check the temperature, IMHO) since I'm almost convince that the TMP2 sensor is not the northbridge, no matter what Gigabyte says. Is just a another readout of the CPU temp.
Example 1; if I suspend my PC, then that temp becomes a copy of the CPU temp.
Example 2: if I enable "Core unlocking" on the BIOS that temp becomes LOCKED (min and max) no matter what.
Example 3: HWiNFO64 names the MB sensors in this order; Motherboard, Northbridge and CPU.
Here is a picture of how it looks
