Official MSI P7N Diamond (780i) Discussion/Review/Overclock/Guide/BIOS Thread

[BababooeyHTJ]

Ok, my NB never went beyond 60, i mean it always were around 50-55. That's not a high temp for this chip, and i don't think 1.45 it's a voltage to burn out this chip (impossible to reach 435+fsb with lower vNB), so.... I also had a fan blowing directly to the Nb, and I replaced the hard TIM with MX2 too. Anyway I'm thinking about RMA'it againg, but my shipping charges are too high, so I don't knowm since I already bought another motherboard, and I'm waiting it to arrive.

Not that this is apples to apples but my quad with a higher fsb and 4x2gb sticks of ram on my P5Q D which is very stressful on the northbridge and never toped 38c "motherboard" temp and that thing had a very subpar stock cooling solution compared to the P7N. I rember touching that NB sink, it gets hot. What are your ambient temps like? I think that mine died because I was living on a third floor apartment with no A/C and it got pretty hot in the summer, that with 2 GTX260s in the case didn't help with heat. I also noticed that you have a GTX285 with a nonrefrence cooler in your sig. Does it exhaust the heat? I am running a GTX280 and when I poped on an HR-03 I notied that my "motherboard" temp went up a bit, not much but some and I have insane airflow in my case.

I'm not defending the board but I think that most of the odd problems that poped up in this thread were heat related. The refrence 780i boards are no better from what I hear. Anyways, I'm glad that I replaced this with a nice P45. Which board did you pick up?