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- Oct 29, 2012
Good afternoon!
First off, I made a goof. These are 990FXA-UD3 boards, not XA. Next..
I am currently torturing a few boards so that I gain a much better understanding of how well the work, strengths, weaknesses, gimmicks, etc..
I'm an owner, user, and torturer of the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 boards, and have come to find that these little guys come in pretty well at their price point. They have two gimmicks that frighten me when it comes to higher level OC'ing, and they both revolve around temperature--
The NB and Mosfets get extraordinarily hot on this board. Like, frighteningly so. Fixing this issue on the NB is easy enough, any typical aftermarket NB cooler typically is better than what comes on the board, and I got these down on my in-shop 6300 running at 5.1GHz-- Last thermal probing put the surface of the aftermarket NB HS at something like 52*c with no added airflow.
The mosfets on the other hand thermal throttle at 5.1GHz and measured beyond the safe limits of the board without forcing a large amount of airflow across the Heat sink (Non-safe numbers measured on heatsink surface, I don't even wanna know how hot the mosfets themselves got). I have no problem forcing air across these heatsinks, but I would rather a more effective cooling solution.
So, to the question. I'm looking for aftermarket cooling solutions for mosfets. Are there any high-end / extreme cooling solutions available? The sinks on these Gigabyte boards are rubbish! I don't think the little 4-pin micro-coolers would be more effective, I'm looking for single-peice mosfet cooler. Thanks!
First off, I made a goof. These are 990FXA-UD3 boards, not XA. Next..
I am currently torturing a few boards so that I gain a much better understanding of how well the work, strengths, weaknesses, gimmicks, etc..
I'm an owner, user, and torturer of the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 boards, and have come to find that these little guys come in pretty well at their price point. They have two gimmicks that frighten me when it comes to higher level OC'ing, and they both revolve around temperature--
The NB and Mosfets get extraordinarily hot on this board. Like, frighteningly so. Fixing this issue on the NB is easy enough, any typical aftermarket NB cooler typically is better than what comes on the board, and I got these down on my in-shop 6300 running at 5.1GHz-- Last thermal probing put the surface of the aftermarket NB HS at something like 52*c with no added airflow.
The mosfets on the other hand thermal throttle at 5.1GHz and measured beyond the safe limits of the board without forcing a large amount of airflow across the Heat sink (Non-safe numbers measured on heatsink surface, I don't even wanna know how hot the mosfets themselves got). I have no problem forcing air across these heatsinks, but I would rather a more effective cooling solution.
So, to the question. I'm looking for aftermarket cooling solutions for mosfets. Are there any high-end / extreme cooling solutions available? The sinks on these Gigabyte boards are rubbish! I don't think the little 4-pin micro-coolers would be more effective, I'm looking for single-peice mosfet cooler. Thanks!
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