***Asus Rampage III Extreme Owners Thread***

[minaelromany]

I somehow find that hard to believe, so you are saying that your NB/SB chipset ran at equal to or lower than ambient temperature? Either you live inside a fridge or your temp probes didn't work properly lol.

I meant that Gigabyte Extreme had 15-20 lower temps for NB/SB than R3E

Gigabyte : 40-45 (Max ~50 C) with QPI ~1.575v

Asus R3E : 55-65 (Max ~70 C) with QPI ~ 1.488v

Even my old Asus P6T never had those horrible R3E NB/SB temps !

BTW : I've removed the stock heat pipe block before installing the Noctua NH-D14 and that "ear wax" was a nightmare to remove , then applied some AC MX-2 and temps went down by 8-10 degrees but it is still very high for my liking

Unfortunately the optional HS with fan would not go along with the Noctua , so I put the fan om the shorter HS :