Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

[beast200]

Just answering my own question for anyone who is interested, please correct me if this sounds absurd.

I took the additional heat sink off my NB (EX58-Extreme). I noticed that under load, my NB temps maxed at 54C which is an improvement over the >60C temps I was getting with the additional heat sink on it (will have to do more testing when ambient temp is a bit higher). My assumption is that my graphics cards were heating up the heat sink and therefore making the NB hotter. I first though this might be the case based on the observation that my NB was nearly always sitting on the same temp as my top GTX 260 (up to a certain temp). This was very noticeable after playing a game and letting the system idle. If the 1st GPU was at 60C, the NB was at 60C and they would both cool down at the same rate. Currently, my NB is cooling down and is sitting on 49 where as the GPU is at 54C. If the additional heat sink was on the NB, I would assume that the NB would also be at 54C.

hi you have also answered my question about chaging from UD5 to the extreme
i would of liked to water cool the NB / additional heat sink but seems makes little or no difference
one thing i have noticed is that the two other heat sinks linked by the heat pipes do not get hot only slighty warm to the touch My Nb idles @ 45 to 48 and max about 56 to 58
seems inline with your temps


1 S3 it works fine under w7 64 but loses turbo mode when resumes
( Have read that it is a standard feature of the i7 !! may be wrong )

2 Eist No idea just turn it off

3 Turbo mode works well does not throttle