60*c VREG

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Doing some testing on my board and the VREG is hitting 60*c and normally operates between 46-50*c Should I be concerned? Just doing IBT Very High load.

 

[LTC8K6]

Doing some testing on my board and the VREG is hitting 60*c and normally operates between 46-50*c Should I be concerned? Just doing IBT Very High load.

If you want, you can look up the part number of the VREG chips and see what their max temp is.

I would guess that 60C is nothing at all for a voltage regulator chip, though.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

If you want, you can look up the part number of the VREG chips and see what their max temp is.

I would guess that 60C is nothing at all for a voltage regulator chip, though.

Hmm. I wouldn't know where to look on my EVGA board. E760 A1 It's gotta be approaching 6yrs old now so that peaks my concern a little

 

[LTC8K6]

IBT standard is already an unrealistically hard test...

 

[LTC8K6]

I can't find any pics with the heatsink removed to ID the chips.

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Doing some testing on my board and the VREG is hitting 60*c and normally operates between 46-50*c Should I be concerned? Just doing IBT Very High load.

IBT is known to cause un do stress, your CPU will never see that under normal use.

 

[redzo]

60 C should be like the freezing 0 C point for VRM's. I wouldn't worry that much.
http://fudzilla.com/20396-evga-rolls-out-the-x58-classified3-motherboard
A 10 phase digital VRM design is a little insane and it should explain the low VRM temps that you're getting.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

IBT standard is already an unrealistically hard test...

Yes it seems it's much harder than P95 but I find issues alot quicker with it. The chip is under water too so that narrows the issue down even more.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

IBT is known to cause un do stress, your CPU will never see that under normal use.

Yup, understood, thank you

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

60 C should be like the freezing 0 C point for VRM's. I wouldn't worry that much.
http://fudzilla.com/20396-evga-rolls-out-the-x58-classified3-motherboard
A 10 phase digital VRM design is a little insane and it should explain the low VRM temps that you're getting.

My original EVGA was fantastic except I was reading the PCIe GPU lane wrong thinking it was stuck in 8x mode (wasn't fully loaded - smacks head). EVGA sent me an RMA'd board with a broken turbo. I do have to mention that they did the Westmere mod for free but it kinda sucks cause my W3690 which has an unlocked multi and the board won't use anything above the 26 multi. It will go all the way up to ? 50 in bios but it won't functionally use anything above 26. Oh well. I bought a mint condition Gigabyte UD7 not too long ago for a very good price.

Thanks

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

All you need on Vregs(the X79) is a good 120MM fan blowing across them moving air. I never heard of that mod you mentioned? Can you say what they do/did to it?
Try a old bios? Try one stick of memory at a time, no bent pins? re seat the CPU for chits n gigglez? Try swapping ram sticks around? Try an over night Cmos battery out and CMOS clear. I have had my multi stuck but usually it happened when I had a failed over clock, the very next boot try, no matter what I did it would default the multi. After a second reboot it was back to normal, as long as the board "IS WORKING" 2 options dump it, or try the CPU in a different board. I suggest option A.
I would try everything else first, even call EVGA tomorrow there pretty good with helping on the phone with tech issue's.

PS those board said PCIe 3.0 but were never more then 2.0, link to the mod
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=375347

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

All you need on Vregs(the X79) is a good 120MM fan blowing across them moving air. I never heard of that mod you mentioned? Can you say what they do/did to it?
Try a old bios? Try one stick of memory at a time, no bent pins? re seat the CPU for chits n gigglez? Try swapping ram sticks around? Try an over night Cmos battery out and CMOS clear. I have had my multi stuck but usually it happened when I had a failed over clock, the very next boot try, no matter what I did it would default the multi. After a second reboot it was back to normal, as long as the board "IS WORKING" 2 options dump it, or try the CPU in a different board. I suggest option A.
I would try everything else first, even call EVGA tomorrow there pretty good with helping on the phone with tech issue's.

PS those board said PCIe 3.0 but were never more then 2.0, link to the mod
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=375347

For the Westmere mod they had to solder a QPI connection. It enables the 6 core Xeon and Westmere chips.

1000% sure the turbo doesn't work because of the board. My i7 970 doesn't turbo to 25 under load with default clock speeds. It's way past the warranty due date.

The PCIe issue was yrs ago. I ended up with their RMA'd junk. Pretty sad for EVGA