Heat issues

[wtcnbrwndo4u]

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

Forgive my ignorance, but the Infinity 975X has a fan on the heatsink? All the pics I've seen of it have a passive one, like Newegg lists:
Newegg.com - DFI INFINITY 975X LGA 775 Intel 975X ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
That's it, right?

Sure is! Like I said in that previous post, I just figured out that the HSF on the NB isn't the right one. I have the right one, just not attached. I got the mobo from Rich like that.

So you're not wrong, don't worry... :). Hopefully the real HSF should lower temps.

[Stormcrow]

Yeah, I fixed my post right after seeing that. As for the stock heatsink...don't count on it, probably make it worse if I know DFI.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by wtcnbrwndo4u

Sure is! Like I said in that previous post, I just figured out that the HSF on the NB isn't the right one. I have the right one, just not attached. I got the mobo from Rich like that.

So you're not wrong, don't worry... :). Hopefully the real HSF should lower temps.

If the real HS has no fan and is the basic aluminum HS, then it will most likely make temps rise instead.

[Quakindude]

Keep it in perspective though. Even if your NB was at 57°C, that's no where near the upper limit temperature wise for that. Last time I looked into it, 110° was acceptable and folks weren't getting worried until 85°C.

[wtcnbrwndo4u]

Well, I guess switching them solved that problem. Since I couldn't even get off the thermal paste (I know, I'm not supposed to reuse it, but I had no choice), I switched the real aluminum one onto the board.

Well, short things short, the temps dropped to about 46C @ idle. Yay, success. And this is without any fan whatsoever.

And then here's all the temps after using IC7 Diamond thermal paste.


Brilliant! CPU dropped almost 10C.