NF4 Chipset Temp Solution: turn off unused options

[Monkeyyy]

I just wanted to make sure everyone was aware of this. You can significantly drop the temp of your chipset if you turn off unused options.
E.g. If you are not making use of both SATA channels, turn the one you aren't using off. This shaved about 6*C off of my chipset temp.
This little tidbit is probably not going to be applicable to everyone, but if it helps one person :woot:

[Magnj]

wow thats awesome. Gonna test that out riiiiight....now

[Magnj]

1 degree Celcius difference. Sure you didnt lower your voltage when you did that too ;). Gonan try some other thing s im not useing see if that helps any, not that its realy a problem in the first placem but the lower the better right

[Monkeyyy]

I wonder where the other 5 degrees could be coming from.

[Magnj]

i just lowered my chipset voltage too, still only dropped a degree or 2

[Monkeyyy]

it could be improved airflow in my case specifically, but that would be coming from a fan sitting on the xp120, which is some distance from the nf4 chipset (the only other recent change i've made). this is all on the dfi-nf4 ultra. also, for me the onboard sound is off, onboard firewire is also off. hmmm, now i really wonder where it's coming from, guess will have to go home and turn on the sata to see what that does to my temps.

[Magnj]

yea do that. I haaate the onboard sound wich i could turn it off its terrible, no card for me though. I should turn Firewire off where is that?

[Monkeyyy]

I can't remember exactly, but i think it's the 1394 thingie. RGone from DFI-street suggests to turn everything that isn't used off (including serial ports) but there is a part about SATA that I just read that troubles me: quote "Think that covers most of the odd things outside the Genie Bios expcept I turn off any Lan, Firewire, Serial Port and any other thing I am not using except I never ever turn off any SATA drive as long as I use ANY sata product." http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5844 <-- thread I got this out of.

[HiJon89]

I can't remember exactly, but i think it's the 1394 thingie. RGone from DFI-street suggests to turn everything that isn't used off (including serial ports) but there is a part about SATA that I just read that troubles me: quote "Think that covers most of the odd things outside the Genie Bios expcept I turn off any Lan, Firewire, Serial Port and any other thing I am not using except I never ever turn off any SATA drive as long as I use ANY sata product." http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5844 <-- thread I got this out of.
When I tried disabling unused SATA ports I could no longer boot off of my SATA drive, I had to turn them back on first. (And no, I wasn't disabling the SATA port the drive was plugged into)

[Magnj]

I disabled my 3/4 SATA ports no problemo. 1394 is Firewire?

[HiJon89]

I disabled my 3/4 SATA ports no problemo. 1394 is Firewire?
Yup, 1394 is FireWire.

For me, using anything other than 3/4 and I couldn't boot. I got an error that no boot device could be found :(

[Monkeyyy]

that's wierd, I have my SATA 3&4 off, it boots fine with my Seagate 300GB SATA drive plugged into SATA1. could it be an issue from the drive's firmware i wonder?

[Monkeyyy]

ok, turned on sata 3&4, it went up 1 degree. basically, this means the panaflo ultra high sitting on the xp-120 is cooling the nf4 chipset by about 5 degrees. Magnj, keep us posted on the effects of the onboard 1394.