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- Jul 31, 2005
An odd northbridge temp issue has appeared with my motherboard and I'm not sure how to resolve it?
The NB temps on the board used to run in the mid 40's and sometimes up into the 50's (C.) but recently I noticed temps in the mid/upper 70's and I haven't been able to bring it back down??
I took off the stock REX heatpipe/heatsink cooling assembly and re-applied fresh TIM and remounted double checking for a proper mount but this didn't really improve anything.
I took the battery out overnight to clear CMOS and rebooted today with the BIOS set all on auto/defaults. I also currently have an old active copper based Swiftech chipset cooler (MCX159) directly on top of the X48 chipset and the board is still showing mid to upper 70's.
Anyone have any thoughts or ideas?
Previous temps X48 chipset with stock heatpipe/heatsink assembly:
Current stock auto/default setup (Q9650/DDR3-1333C9) with Temps/Volts:
The NB temps on the board used to run in the mid 40's and sometimes up into the 50's (C.) but recently I noticed temps in the mid/upper 70's and I haven't been able to bring it back down??
I took off the stock REX heatpipe/heatsink cooling assembly and re-applied fresh TIM and remounted double checking for a proper mount but this didn't really improve anything.
I took the battery out overnight to clear CMOS and rebooted today with the BIOS set all on auto/defaults. I also currently have an old active copper based Swiftech chipset cooler (MCX159) directly on top of the X48 chipset and the board is still showing mid to upper 70's.
Anyone have any thoughts or ideas?
Previous temps X48 chipset with stock heatpipe/heatsink assembly:
Current stock auto/default setup (Q9650/DDR3-1333C9) with Temps/Volts: