Quote Originally Posted by youraa View Post
1. The only thing that worries me is the NB temp, in bios it shows 61-63C with [1.61v] setting, isn't that a bit too high, my room temperature is around 21C, but it's winter now and in the summer it gets really hot and the temps may go drastically up. The problem is whenever I try to lower the voltage on the NB I cannot boot, 1.61v it's the lowest setting. Any ideas hot to change my settings to lower up the NB temp?
apparently, the thermal compound asus uses between the NB and its heatsink is more like cement, it is a better adhesive than a thermal conductor... i've read alot of posts and threads about people wanting to remove the stock thermal compound and replace it with something like artic silver... but once you have turned the computer on and the compound has heated up, it will cure and bond very tightly to the northbridge, you have to twist it off , if you try to pluck it off you might take the entire northbridge out with you, some people tried putting it in the freezer, others tried to use a hairdryer to heat and soften the compound