Issues with NForce 550 Chipset.

[g3monster]

That is a point, G3.. the cooler is so inadequte it's not funny

I gotta say I haven't tried one myself, I guess the 230 wall kind of put me off bothering to waste my time but i'm determined now we have a success story from G3

When there was no fan on my chipset I was running 270HTT with random lockups with NO extra volts but when I put the fan onto the chipset I could run at upto 420HTT at a temp of around 43-47C (depends on room temp) with .375V passing through the chipset and havent had a problem since.

Also noted that when I push 1.55V through my CPU when underload the mobo overvolts the CPU by .15V!!!! giving me a total of 1.7V (through a brisbane @3.3GHZ)so when your overclocking you have to take into account for an almost 10% overvoltage factor at load and about a 3% overvoltage factor at idle.