shucks, they processed my RMA today, but didn't get the board out. thats 2 lost days of shipping! so i'll have the board by thursday i believe.
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shucks, they processed my RMA today, but didn't get the board out. thats 2 lost days of shipping! so i'll have the board by thursday i believe.
asus is a good solid board to run stock, but that's about it, they are not really concerned with being #1 oc'ability, they are all about volume and their stability name. But then, even a newbie knows, any damn board is stable at stock, heh. Neve'theless, I love marketing :P
DFI performs better @ stock anyway ;)
Arrrrrg Skip... feel ya bro. Look on the bright side... just in time for the weekend ;)
@Ivan - understand about the Asus-syndrome...back when the KT266A's came out and Icrontics was rocking, got the Asus instead of the Abit :brick: Last Asus I ever bought, lol. (on topic) Get your DFI yet?
I have it but it's not put together yet. I bought it locally.
Could someone help me with a little problem? My board really runs fine, just one thing really worries me. My power regulation heatsinks get really hot to the touch...
I put a probe to the bottom of the middle heatsink, and it showed me at least the temp of the PWM reading!
Which is, in my case, ~57-65° under load! I'm with h2o here, so there's not that much airflow inside the case (yet I used every option to mount a fan).
Now, does this temperature harm them? I read that they are rated up to 125°C inside and ~70° package, right? Am I toasting my board here? Idle temp is at ~40°, so maybe these heatsinks don't sit right?
Should I put a waterblock on them? Anyone with a dead board because of overheated power regulation yet?
Have you seen benchmarks that compare high HTT speeds to lower HTT speeds?Quote:
Originally Posted by KaEL
There is no point in it. A high HTT speed doesn't mean much. 300Mhz HTT really isn't any faster then 250Mhz HTT which really isn't any faster then 200Mhz HTT. There is just too much bandwidth in the HTT link to saturate it so feeding tons of voltage to the NB so you can clock it higher isn't gaining you anything. Just give it enough to keep it stable at an HTT speed that gets your CPU and RAM where it needs to go. Dont bother with dropping the CPU multiplier to raise the HTT speed unless your doing it to clock your RAM higher.
Those temps aren't really that bad. However, you should be able to get a small 40mm or 60mm fan on those mosfet sinks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Radical_53
When I water cool the DFI NF4 board, I set a low rpm fan over the memory and another over the PWM area. I route the memory fan power to the mobo CPU fan header, and the PWM fan to the system fan header and use Smartguardian to controll rpm based on idle/load CPU and pwm temps. Under load the fans kick up and cool the ram and pwm. At idle they spin down. In both situations they are virtually silent and make for better 24/7 overclocked stability.
Here's some pics:
http://home.comcast.net/~mdzcpa/imag...Water_Fans.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~mdzcpa/imag...er_PWM_Fan.JPG
I like to use small dabs of seal string for convenient fan mounting:)
Great idea, I'll try that. I was just curious if these temps are harmful to the board somehow, as a friend of mine (FX + SLI) killed 2 boards already and said his PWM was too hot... now he cools it down and says that there are no problems any more.
Mine shouldn't have to work that hard, so I had hoped to leave those heatsinks just the way they were :D
This is how it looks right now:
http://www.directupload.net/images/050327/5ptegwt4.jpg
Looks fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Radical_53
But plz tell me:
What type of northbridge-cooler do you use? I´m looking for one that fits on the DFI but haven´t found one yet.
Thx + greetz,
Flox
Brilliant! However in the pics I can't really tell how you've placed the seal string. Are you using the the rubber right on the housing of the fan and then place the small fan right on the mosfet heatsinks?Quote:
Originally Posted by mdzcpa
--- Radical_53 ---
As long as you put a fan across the area, no problem on the 5V usage from heat.
Here's a mod of your pic showing a good place to put one ;)
http://img8.exs.cx/img8/9897/radical53scase9th.th.png
@flox: A German called "Sixtron" made it. It's available here in Germany, but none of the larger manufacturers brought a block yet.
@emc2: I'm not using the 5V option, still the PWM gets that hot :(
Just shows what a good fan can do... have one (DFI nF4) on my test bench that has been being abused 24/7 for the last week, never see above 35C measured on the Vmem circuit (fan blowing across the MB, not from above).Quote:
Originally Posted by Radical_53
I used on dab on the left side attaching the left side of the fan to the waterblock mounting screw, and another dab bewteen the right side of the fan and the yellow IDE cable. The fan is about 3/4' above the heatsinks.Quote:
Originally Posted by gundamit
ahh
I´ve found one that fits on the DFI-NB. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Flox
Greetz, Flox
Quote:
Originally Posted by Flox
wow...that's helpful...however I'm sure he's looking for a bit more information than that. Like, who makes it, where to get it, etc... :p:
;)Quote:
Originally Posted by NST6563
I asked for the cooler and in the mean-time found one on my own...
So I (Flox, who answered) and he (Flox, who asked) are the same person without being schizophrenic... :p:
But for other persons who are looking for a DFI NF4 NB-watercooler:
http://www.mips-computer.de/images/dfi_freezer_01_q.jpg
Sold at www.mips-computer.de.
Greetz, Flox
hehe...hope nobody was offended by my smartass comment. :p
couldn't help it...it was early and Monday :p:
h2o
To determine whether its your mainboard or cpu, try dropping the multi to 8X and see if you can do 310.Quote:
Originally Posted by TEDY
Still one question, please:
What´s the height of the DFI-stock cooler and how much space is left between cooler and videocard?
Or just: What´s the maximum height of a mountable cooler?
Thx, Flox
couple a cooont haresQuote:
What´s the height of the DFI-stock cooler and how much space is left between cooler and videocard?