Issues with NForce 550 Chipset.

[lismo]

Do you have a fan on your Chipset???

Mine was running at close to 70C and limiting me to about 270 before I put a fan on it.

My RAM is pretty crappy. It is Elixir brand (basically unbranded) but capable of 1066mhz BUT only if I decrease the timings to 6-6-6-22 and it they do not respond to voltage very well either so I wouldnt think it would be your ram. What REV mobo are you running?

Yeah that plain heatsink supplied by Gigabyte is indeed crappy. I replaced the glue or whatever it was, with artic silver. I noticed that once you removed the cooler it does'nt really 'fit' strong. Like you can move the heatsink with your finger without doing much effort. It kinda concerns me, and yeah alot of people with these boards have heating problems, However at Cold boot it shoud'nt be the problem to be honest.

Review my case again in the startpost. I got so much decent airflow it should be just more then enough. To be safe i still installed a Stock-AMD fan at 5V and putted it infront of the chipset. My memory is a Matched pair of Corsair PC6400 at 4-4-4-12, which is pretty good. However i'm still considering to get PC8000 or simular, to at least get the 1:1 condition with the memory.

I'll try later, right now it's weekend and i got alot of partying todo

[g3monster]

My BIOS PICZ 4 THOSE OF U STUCK @ 290 OR LOWER HTT

Advanced Chipset Features:


DRAM configuation:


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