The NB/VRM area gets pretty warm at stock and really hot when pushed. I have pulled the pretty blue pieces off the NB and VRM heatsinks so the 120mm fan in the side panel blowing down on them is more effective:



Prior to taking off the blue pieces, mine would lock up like clockwork when TMPIN1 in HWmonitor (correlates to Chassis temp in BIOS) would reach 53C+. CPU temp (atleast what I think is CPU temp) was only reaching 52C when at 3.6Ghz with my budget cooler's fan maxed).

Any plans for Gigabyte to fix CPU temp reporting in AOD / HW monitor. I don't believe the 18C - 23C temps I'm seeing I've been going by TMPIN2 for CPU temp since it seems to correlate with what CPU temp says in BIOS in between reboots.

Any idea where chassis temp is measured; location of sensor?