Quote Originally Posted by Ashraf View Post
Hm, yeah. I have this board running at default settings. I couldn't even touch the SB heatsink for more than 3 seconds. I ended up changing the volt. to 1.05v (I think). Still, it runs too hot. I thought it was normal for the ICH7R chip, no? I guess I'll have to change the thermal paste.
With the SB voltage at stock, and 26C room temp, the SB is at 42C at the moment ( currently having some IO as I'm encoding a AVI file to MPEG-2 format for DVD Authoring ).

I can touch the heatsink, I can touch the heatsink yay!