ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution is heat really an issue for this board?

[joro]

I'm trying to do more research before I bite on the Newegg deal. I hear that the NF200 chip gives off a lot of heat on this board. Anyone with experience with this board have anything to say about that issue? Thanks.

[Rubycon]

Yes it does get plenty warm. The Classified gets even hotter!

As long as your case has decent flow heat should not be an issue. The Rev is a good board although it should've had a firewire controller.

[Trembledust]

Well I have a full water block on my board, one on the cpu, and a block on one of the mosfets. So far so good. Have my i920 chip to 4.2ghz, ram at 1603mhz and she good. Cpu during Vantage doesnt break 65c. The NF200 chip I cant tell how hot she gets with my set up but I really dont see heat being an issue. Again im on water so I cant tell u how the board is temp wise on air. Damn good board overall IMO.

[jkresh]

Trembledust, do you mind posting your bios settings (mostly voltages, also bclk if you are running at 21 * 200 or 210 *20?)? Thanks.


at 1.3v, I seem to be prime 95 stable (16+ hours) at 3.7ghz, with ram at 1.64, and qpi at 1.4, temps around 63c with prime load, but 3.8 crashes (after about 2 hours), trying at 1.33 next. (Above are both at a multiplier of 20)

[Trembledust]

Trembledust, do you mind posting your bios settings (mostly voltages, also bclk if you are running at 21 * 200 or 210 *20?)? Thanks.


at 1.3v, I seem to be prime 95 stable (16+ hours) at 3.7ghz, with ram at 1.64, and qpi at 1.4, temps around 63c with prime load, but 3.8 crashes (after about 2 hours), trying at 1.33 next. (Above are both at a multiplier of 20)

Sry for the delayed response. I'm going to give u my old bios settings, and current settings. I don't have a template for the bios so just going to mentioned what I change. Anything left out assume it is set to auto / default settings.

Old Bios Settings:

CPU Ratio: 21
Bclk: 200
PCIE: 110
Dram: 1603mhz
Dram Timings: 9, 9, 9, 24

Cpu Vol: 1.5v
Cpu PLL: 1.90v
QPI / Dram: 1.35v
Dram Bus: 1.63v

Loadline Cal=Enabled

HT- Disabled

Current Bios Settings

CPU Ratio: 20
BCLK: 200
PCIE: 110
Dram: 1603mhz
UCLK: 3208mhz
Dram Timings: 10, 10, 10, 28
TRFC: 88

CPU Vol: 1.47v
CPU PLL: 1.90v
QPI / Dram: 1.41v
Dram Bus Vol: 1.62v

Loadline Calibration: Enabled

CIE Support - Disabled
Hardware Prefetcher - Enabled
Adjacent Cache Line Prefetcher-Enabled
Intel Virtualization Tech-Disabled
CPU TM Function-Disabled
Execute Disable Bit-Disabled
Intel HT - Enabled

The reason I lowered the ram timings was because a friend of mine stated he was able to reach 4.3ghz on the Evga (non classified) board with looser timings and HT on. I couldn't run 4.3ghz with those timings, and HT on unless I hiked up the vcore to like 1.65v - 1.7v and I wasn't trying to do that. It seems I have a power hungry chip. Its a C0 chip, not a D0. Also it seems I cant break 205 blck with this chip. Eh. 4ghz runs well for me so I'm not spazing too much but still might try the D0 chip in the summer. I wanna run the chip with less volts but my chip idles at 39-40c. Max I seen my chip hit to date was 67c.

Oddly enough I was playing GTA IV (I was bored..sue me lol) and I caught a hardware failure bsod. Might need to put the vcore back to 1.5v. I haven't fully grasps this board but so far it's not giving me any real problems. Hope this helps.

I'm running 3 x 2gbs of gskill ram (cas 9) with two Nvidia 285 cards in sli (oc'd, not water cooled)

If you need more info let me know.

[Trembledust]

Sry. forgot to add im running 401 bios if that helps any.

[Fire4Wire]

you mean bios 0407 i have not seen bios 0401

[davewolfs]

WHy can't they fix S3 on this board?

[Trembledust]

you mean bios 0407 i have not seen bios 0401

Yea 407. Not 401. Sry bout that.