greenie on abit bx6 rev2

[ebola]

ive been getting pretty hot temps all arround but i assume this is one of the reasons for my high system temps. i hit 50 degrees C today on my system temps. ouch! i took off the case cover and took out all of the availible bay slots to cool down and put a floor fan up to the side of it. it seemed to work but its not something you want to be in the same room with for long.

a bit of a problem though. can i ft one of these coolers under my alpha pal 6035 delta 38 combo. it kind of hangs ove the greenie. any one else try this. and is it worth the money?

 

[LimeyGreg]

Your going to have to measure the height of the greenie and add it to the distance from the top of the greenie to the HSF - less a couple mm for the Northbridge and that will tell you how thick a HS/HSF you can use.

You'll probably find though that your HSF may be blowing air over the greenie anyway. Do you have compound under it? I checked mine and it had none, so needless to say I slapped some on.

If the layout of the BX6 is anything like the BE6 your system temp sensor is at the rear of the board close to the lowest PCI slot, it's part if the Winbond chipset and it's the smaller of the two.

Sounds to me like you need more case ventilation, although you didn't mention what your room ambient temp was. My room ambient/air intake is presently 27C, Case ambient is 32C, Sys Temp 34C and CPU temp 43C (running F@H).

 

[ebola]

yes exactly i just ordered a new case which should help out alot.

as for the greenie should i just take it off and put on some thermal grease.

 

[ebola]

well i put a nice coat of thermal paste on so we'll see what happens. after taking the greenie off i couldnt believe how cheap it is. i cant believe it actually cools anything. it might be a good investment to get the chip cooler.

 

[Kingslayer]

If space is a problem for the chipset, you can always take the greenie off and put on one of the chipset coolers from Global WIn. They have a couple that aren't too tall. If you can fit it, put in a blorb, they actually work well and look twice as good.

 

[dozier768]

anytime i buy a component or new mobo you can bet im ripping those crappy heatsink's off and scraping off that lousy double sided tape and if nothing else lapping them and putting some ars on the back and epoxy'ing the corners. those stock chipset and vid card coolers are ridiculous.

 

[Lancelot]

I have lapped the greenie (which turned out to be really concave) on my BE6-II, and mounted a 40mm ADDA fan on top of it. It barely fits under my PEP66T, there's only a few mm's left so I set the grennie fan to suck air out into the PEP66T which is also sucking air out. I also cut a 80mm hole in the bottom of my PSU directly above the Alpha, and this lowered my overall case temps by 5C cuz the PSU fan is now efficiently sucking out the hot air coming from the Alpha. (see the pix)

 

[Lancelot]

The simple but efficient PSU mod...

 

[most deaf]

you know, putting thr fan on wont do much in your setup, i would get a better heatsink for it instead

 

[el]

www.nerdsbytes have a couple of sunons that are 40x10 and 40x20 they might be able to fit and cool off that greenie and I think they are only about 6bucks so cheap if they don't work/fit.

 

[ebola]

i think most deaf is probably right. the greenie really sucks. a better heatsink would be better than a fan.

 

[zPacKRat]

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[ebola]

well im going to wait for my new full tower case to come first before i though out $20 more bucks. if system temps seem stable then i'll leave the greenie. its doing a bit better now with some grease on it.

 

[LutaWicasa]

Yeah, improve the case cooling. The BX6r2 seems to inherently have slightly high system temps when ambient temp is up there. I would be somewhat concerned though as my sys temp has never gotten above 45c ( and that only once) With cool ambient temp my sys runs about 3c lower than cpu temp. With warmer weather and higher ambient my sys runs about 2-4c above core temp.