Lower your DS3 chipset temps, remember MSI Nforce3??

[dnottis]

I got this new DS3 rev. 3.3 about 2 weeks ago. Not having any issues except some very warm chipset temps. Idle 44c, load about 50c and this was with a 50MM fan on there. Tonight I decided to pull off the chipset heatsink and see what kind of job Gigabyte does with their TIM application on the NB.

Not much of a suprise, a glob in the middle that was stuck like last years Christmas cookie icing. Very hard like old gum.

http://www.3dxtreme.net/other/GB%20DS3/chipset/IMG_4002.jpg

http://www.3dxtreme.net/other/GB%20DS3/chipset/IMG_4003.jpg

..and the bottom of the NB, shows that the TIM has dried to :banana::banana::banana::banana: and cracked when it was removed. I had to scrape it off thats how useless it was. In fact it was keeping the actual heatsink from touching the chipset thats how bad this application had become. Keep in mind this mobo is a few weeks old.

http://www.3dxtreme.net/other/GB%20DS3/chipset/IMG_4004.jpg

All cleaned on the chipset and the NB heatsink. Applied some AS5 and it's go time.

http://www.3dxtreme.net/other/GB%20DS3/chipset/IMG_4005.jpg



After temperatures, at idle its about 38c now and load is 41c. This dropped temperatures about 7 solid degrees. In fact in order to boot over 507 Mhz I needed to bump the chipset to +.1. Now I don't need to even do that. She pops right up even at 510 currently without the extra chipset volts.

This brought me back to the days of the MSI nforce3 board that had the same problem. A drop of AS5 could save customers from having stability issues and still no one will listen and learn....

[burn what?]

hard to get those plastic pins out without breaking? did you push from the under side up i assume???

also, are u using option 1 or 2 for high speed ram dll option in bios?

[Scyth3]

You pinch and push from the bottom.

[ziddey]

Doesn't the ds3 automatically increase vmch with fsb? IIRC, when I was up to around 400fsb, measuring vmch with a dmm, I was seeing +0.3v equivalent on "normal". That was with a rev1 and rev2 board, and I can't imagine rev3.3 being any different. It is weird though that there's no +0.0v option.

[Kobalt]

I do this on all boards now before I even install them. I mean I'm gonna do it anyways so I might as well just do it before its in the case. Even if the contact is good, you'll still improve temps by using as5 or similar. It's probably a good idea to do a quick check for DOA though.