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SpiriteH!

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Is the northbridge on the Lanparty JR 790GX-M2RS anything to worry about it, Smart Guardian is telling me 70oC and I have a 80mm fan blowing right onto it.

bit hot?
easyfix? =/


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You mean Too hot right?

MUHAHAHAHA! I'm just messin' with yah, don't care if your grammar is bad. Anyroad, why not remove the HSF from the northbridge, reapply some decent thermal paste and see if your temps improve. Also use another monitoring utility just back up what Smart Guardian says.

HWMonitor is pretty damn good at giving out multiple readings. If you can't be arsed to remove & reapply, see what HWMonitor says.

Have you OC'd anything so you've had to increase the voltage to the Northbridge?
 
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If your saying its 70 degrees with a fan planted on top then id say theres something wrong there - like innocent said, re apply the thermal paste with something decent (MX-2 or similar) and see if that brings the temperature down any.
 
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smart guardian always had problems with temp readings tbh, at least that's what it was like in the NF4 Ultra D stage!
 

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Believing Smart Guardian is like believing Dubya when he said Iraq had WMD's. :shadedshu


HWMonitor (like said above) is the only thing I will believe; 70'C on your NB and I'm pretty sure you'd kill the board or at the very least have many, many lockups.
 
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It works for my rig is on par with HWmonitor :p 70c is high it must be burning up outside where you are. I have never seen mine go above 46c and I dont have a fan on it. Did reapply some thermal grease though to it.
 
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70 is too hot, imho!

as it was said... change monitoring software and TIM...
 
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Dont take this advice cause it probably isnt good, but my old Asus p5nd2-sli deluxe motherboard had a passive heatsink on it. The thing would get so hot that it would literally burn your finger (we're talking actual injury here). Then I oc'd everything. It got hotter. I upgraded all my case fans, but that didnt help much. So i put a little northbridge fan on there. It was still hot enough to burn you, but everything still ran fine, no lockups or anything. Then the northbridge fan went out, so i let it sit there and toast without the fan running and it still worked fine. I dont know an exact temp reading but it was way up there.
 

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I have an old P5ND2-SLI (with a pair of 6800GT's) and the NB in that thing is stupidly hot and nothing seems to cool it down, not even a 110cfm fan over the top of it. :shadedshu

That being said, the newer P45 chipsets from Intel should run a lot cooler as the fab process is smaller, hence cooler than the older, hotter nVidia chipset in the P5ND2...a 40mm fan on any NB wont hurt and to be honest if you OC its a must.
 

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Thanks all, and ye I was told it ran hot but jesus like =/

Erm, I'll reapply the paste and see what happens with it and yes it was overclocked a little (still working on that).


Thanks for advice all
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70 is pushing it. if reappling thermalpaste does not work or fan consider on getting a better nb cooler. also look into chassis airflow.drop the amount volts you got going to it (if you oc'd it)
 
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Thanks all, and ye I was told it ran hot but jesus like =/

Erm, I'll reapply the paste and see what happens with it and yes it was overclocked a little (still working on that).


Thanks for advice all
x
SpiriteH!

Make sure you try a different monitoring program to check to see if it's reading it correctly. Does the temperature change at all? It also could be a stuck sensor.
 

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The northbridge from my gigabyte mobo that powered my long forgotten ATHLON64 was getting close to 90C and i had no problems with it ( used it for 3,5 years ) . The board didn`t have any heatsinks for the VRM area either . But worked perfectly , and it still works , but i don`t use it anymore ofc.
Try a thermal probe , maybe your software is not accurate . If you say you have a 80mm fan blowing str8 into the heatsink something is wrong with the reported temperature . I think you should peak at around 50-55C imo. Is the NB heatsink linked to the VRM sink via heatpipe ?

Well after some research i found out that many users that own the DFI 790GX board have the same temps like yours , but none reported board instability or fried chips . No worries :)
 
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The northbridge from my gigabyte mobo that powered my long forgotten ATHLON64 was getting close to 90C and i had no problems with it ( used it for 3,5 years ) . The board didn`t have any heatsinks for the VRM area either . But worked perfectly , and it still works , but i don`t use it anymore ofc.
Try a thermal probe , maybe your software is not accurate . If you say you have a 80mm fan blowing str8 into the heatsink something is wrong with the reported temperature . I think you should peak at around 50-55C imo. Is the NB heatsink linked to the VRM sink via heatpipe ?

Well after some research i found out that many users that own the DFI 790GX board have the same temps like yours , but none reported board instability or fried chips . No worries :)

Ye the VRM is linked, going to look at the paste and keep the fan. If the overclock is stable then I guess I always have a month to see if it burns up /=
 

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I had the same problem with my ASUS P5N7A-VM. The Northbridge was hitting 65+. I replaced the Thermal Paste but no luck.

I had to return the mobo for a P5Q-EM. Now everything is running cooler now. Even the CPU by at least 8-10c.
 

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I just installed 3 different programs for monitoring temperatures and all of them show me exactly 70C . That is not true ... the value seems to be stuck at 70C . Don`t trust software :D
Using a thermal probe i get 45C in full load ( i`ve put it under the heatsink , as close as i could get to the chipset ) You should try that and get back to us ...
 
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