Quote Originally Posted by strange|ife View Post
ok you should have left the pad on the pwm. Iam one to speak on this, i left it off and over did it on torque on my first board, and it was screwed a couple of weeks later.. took a lil while to show up. This board has some vdimm droop, my gskills need 2.125 to run 2.1, it will still sometimes droop down to 2.085~ under complete load..but is stable so this could be an issue, up your volts a little bit on vdiim,SB, and MCH a hair see what happens. go ahead and loosen the TRAS if u havent and see if that helps, leave 1t/2t @2T. i found it has no bearing on memory performance, amoung many others i guess. leave it at 2T just for good measure

80C should be ok for a bench, but if its hitting like 60~day2day thats too much. It should idle about 36-42 under normal room temps.

if you get a new board, dont rush to do the bolt mod, just see how it performs out of the box first. My rma PWM sink was perfect, was making very good contact, and i idle at 35C@ 77c room temp on the pwm/with 60mmfan. it peaks out at 65C under full load, which is normal. If u dont have good contact out of the box either realign the sink, or do ACE's bolt through mod, but more carefully this time
Quote Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue View Post
hmmmm, i would say the heatsink is not sittling level on the mosfets....i pulled out my QuadGT board to re-do the PWM mod by switching out the plastic push pins with the nuts and bolts...when i remounted the heatsink, i did not make sure it was level on the "digital" pwm's...so...2 out of the 5 were not "even" touching the heatsink...i was safe for idle conditions but not for priming...and...in a matter of a few minutes, i burned the heck out of one of the digital PWM's...board is dead!
Thanks guys. I guess I'll first try loosing the screws a bit to see if that helps, if it doesn't maybe I'll try putting some thermal pads on as the one poster suggested. It's just gonna be a PITA to pull apart my whole watercooling system and everything else to fix my problem