Quote Originally Posted by MarkJohnson View Post
Yeah, they were disabled originally. It seemed to run better enabled, but it may of been my imagination.

Anyway, I think I've got it figured out. After noticing it was crashing after a little while of stressing no matter the settings I pulled out my DMM with a temp probe and stuck it in the NB and sure enough it was 65C just mem testing. I pulled out my old 40mm fan and it cooled it down to 50C and has been lasting much longer now with no errors.

I had this same problem on my old DFI Dark 965-s board. I have noticed it being a problem more on older boards before the upright heatpipe HSF units came out as they were designed to have the hsf blowing across the MB and helping cool the NB and others. Once I bought a hsf assembly for the NB I never had issues with the 965-s board again.

Now I guess I'll have to buy a NB HSF assembly and some MOSFET hsf assemblies as well. Any Suggestions?

-=Mark==-
ps. why in the world did Intel screw up the monitoring on these boards? They left so many out it's so hard to diagnose problems, as it is, it's hard enough diagnosing with the million-and-one settings in the BIOS these days. and to think of all the people having so called memory compatibility issues, when it is probably just an overheating NB.
Monitoring? As far as I know, the only boards Asus offers NB temp sensors on are the very highest end, like the Maximus II Formula and whatnot. It's not really intel's fault. And I'm pretty sure the NB on my board overheats at >1.48v, because I have major issues above that, even with a 40mm fan on it.

-Zigosity