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Vcore from Speedfan: 1.25V, CoreTemp: 1.23V. Three case fans (Antecs) are connected directly to PSU and are running @ medium speeds. These fans are located at the rear, top, and in the bottom compartment (in front of the PSU). One case fan (Scythe S-Flex) is connected to the mobo and is in...

I will try the stock cooler again tomorrow, after I'm finished running some tests this evening on various system temperatures. As another note, at full burn (running Prime95+Toast), the processor gets to around 70C, but I notice my GPU (GeForce 8800 GTS) is also running around 75C, even though...

I built a C2D system on the ASUS P5N32-E SLI (nForce 680i) backbone a couple of months ago with an E6600 cooled by a Zalman 9700/AS5 Thermal Paste. The case is an Antec P180, and I am using 4 120mm fans. Despite what I would generally consider a strong level of cooling, the CPU idle temps...

I built a new C2D machine on the ASUS P5N32-E SLI platform a few months ago, and up until a few days ago, it had been running entirely smoothly. Recently (the past couple of days) it had been taking to randomly locking up in Windows (i.e. nothing could move, not even the mouse cursor), and...

I am considering doing a new system build with an ASUS P5N32-E SLI nForce 680i board, and I have been very fond of Zalman HSFs in the past, but I have heard that the 9500/9700 models have issues with the eVGA 680i board. Are these issues generic to the 680i architecture, or a result of something...