Safe Temp. on an am2 nforce 570 board

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PARTON1080 Posted: Mon, Aug 11 2008 10:15 AM

I have an abit board and a 6000+ currently at 3.18 Ghz (265 x 12) with 1.375 V. HT is at 4X (1060 Mhz) and RAM is at 530 Mhz, 1060 DDR of course (cpu/6). I have good cpu temps and thus could tolerate more vcore, but my chipset gets really hot (65 C and higher) with 1.4 V +. How hot can it run day in and day out, and is the AUX temp reported by speedfan and CPUId in fact the chipset temp? Am I correct in assuming that AUX is the mobo temp? I have a grasp of acceptable cpu and gpu temps but no value of acceptable chipset limits.

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 Thats pretty warm. It if you have a extra fan try moving it to blow over the nothbridge. I like to keep my northbridge about the same as my cpu.

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That's in an antec 900 too. North Bridge (I think) HS right by the rear exhaust. Pried the Silent OTES nameplate off the HS and it helped a little. @ 1.375 V the temps stay under 61C, which is still hotter than the cpu max (51C). It is a bit of a bummer as the cpu could be pushed farther (it's on stock cooling at the moment), but the mobo temp is limiting me. Is this common? I am accustomed to hearing about cpu temps limiting people.

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it might be reporting a wrong temp try to push it a little more if it crashes back off.
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If it's off, it's off by some bias because it does change as it should (rises and falls with voltage and cpu load). When I get home I may find the nerve to try such a thing.

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it might be reporting a wrong temp try to push it a little more if it crashes back off.

Do you know if my ram divider will change if I go to 12.5 cpu multi? I do know that going to 14X changes it from cpu/6 to cpu/something.  Stock is cpu/8 with cpu at 15 x 200.

 

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I don't quite understand you but Ram is directly changed by your FSB. If you change the multiplier the RAM will stay the same.
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It is my understanding that on this am2 board, the ram is a function of the internal cpu clock (because it has an integrated memory controller? That is just my understanding, not necessarily how it actually is.). In cpu-z the ram page always says cpu/ 6 or 7 or 8 or 9, depending on cpu multi and RAM speed rating in the bios(ddr 533, 667, 800). I haven't thought of a way to confirm this yet; I do know that if I simply raise the multiplier, my board automatically lowers the ram speed, ie, changes from cpu/6 to cpu/7. Investigated this last night but went back to stable settings after I grew tired of sitting in the floor resetting the cmos. :) 

On a side note, what are DQS timings and memclock tri-stating? They are both disabled but my board doesn't recognize my RAM, so this may not be the best setting.

And any clue why my board is defaulting the Trfc (I think?) to the following? If I change DIMM 2 to match the rest it won't post.

I think I'm in DIMM's 3 & 4 ( farthest 2 from cpu ) but I do not know.

DIMM1 = 70 ns

DIMM2 = 127.5 ns

DIMM3 = 70 ns

DIMM4 = 70 ns

 

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I'm not that familiar with AM2 boards but that seems weird to me. What board do you have?
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PARTON1080 replied on Tue, Aug 12 2008 10:47 AM

Definitely wierd, it's an Abit KN9 nforce 570 sli. probably not the best choice, but when I built this rig I knew even less than I know now:)

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I would just avoid using slot 2.
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warlord replied on Tue, Aug 12 2008 11:45 PM

Does it give a performance hit that is tangable between having the stick and being forced to run the timing or not having the stick?

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I guess I need to figure out which dimm my board ID's as which. I figure they are in order, but are they left to right, or right to left? (The dimm's being to the right of the cpu socket from my perspective)

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warlord replied on Wed, Aug 13 2008 8:18 PM

Yellow channel should be the closest to the cpu and from that designation shoulbe  yellow slots 1, 2 black slots 3, 4 going from cpu toward the edge of the motherboard hope that helps

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