ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[TheSamurai]

My northbridge temp is around 45c@idle and ~52c@load. With 1.57v to it.
Do you guys think i should try to reseat the heatsink ?
I have the NON-SE version.

i would definitely reseat it!!!

[Mayk-Freak]

I have the following question:

I´ve got the board "ASUS Maximus" and two of the 160 GB SAT2 WD1600YS fixed disks. I want to create a RAID0. When I set the RAID in BIOS and reboot the computer, it freezes at the begining of the start monitor. Only when I pull the SATA cables it will reboot. Where is the mistake? Who can help me? I spoke with the ASUS support and they told me that my power supply unit with 500 Watt is not enough. I should buy me a 800 Watt power supply unit. Is this possible?

[yobi]

bios 901
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bios 602

[Darkstormz]

I reseated the heatsink now.

Now running 1.55v Northbridge. Idle@44c - Load@50c.
I´ve got a 80mm fan blowing on northbridge too @ low speed.
I cant run 450fsb because my CPU has fsbwall and will make the computer freeze after 5min load.
So running 445fsb * 8 now perfectly stable

[KRich]

I took some time today now to remove the heatsink from the NB and the SB, clean up the stock TIM and replace it with AS5. It took ages to clean the heatsinks up because of the stuff which ASUS have used. It requires constant heating up with a hairdryer and plenty of TIM remover to get it all off.

Anyways, with the same scenario as I previously mentioned, NB temps are now down between 6 and 8 degrees to around 36 degrees celsius at load.

Well worth the effort

[Darkstormz]

I took some time today now to remove the heatsink from the NB and the SB, clean up the stock TIM and replace it with AS5. It took ages to clean the heatsinks up because of the stuff which ASUS have used. It requires constant heating up with a hairdryer and plenty of TIM remover to get it all off.

Anyways, with the same scenario as I previously mentioned, NB temps are now down between 6 and 8 degrees to around 36 degrees celsius at load.

Well worth the effort

Are you on water or aircooling for your northbridge?
My temps seems kinda high. ~50c@load with aircooling on the NON-SE.
Maybe I have to reseat the thing once again...*bleh*

[KRich]

Are you on water or aircooling for your northbridge?
My temps seems kinda high. ~50c@load with aircooling on the NON-SE.
Maybe I have to reseat the thing once again...*bleh*

The NB is air cooled. I also just switched out the 34CFM fan that was blowing over that area with a 68CFM one but it hasn't made any extra difference. The NB is still between 36 and 38 degrees celsius after several hours of OCCT RAM mode.