680i Chipset HEATSINK temperature

[stevolution]

Hi guys,

I have in9 32x mobo but they don't come with 680i spp temperature meter like evga ones do. So I've been measuring my heatsink temperature with a probe.

The thing is, northbridge never goes over 38 degrees and southbridge never goes over 36 degrees. I've overclocked to 472fsb and stable but anything over would give some kind of SATA corruption/error (the harddrive indicator would just be on but nothings happening). Oh and yes I am actively cooling my NB with 60mm fan.

I am just wondering to see if the heatsink has good contact with the northbridge and south bridge and want to be sure before I pull everything apart which takes a while.

Thanks in advance!

 

[PCTC2]

Well, the eVGA 680i's do not have a temperature probe on the SPP, only the MCP. But my SPP is too hot to touch at the stock 266FSB/400RAM with my Q6600.

 

[stevolution]

Ah ok... do you have active cooling on your SPP?

 

[lopri]

My heat-gun showed around ~80C when shot to HR-05 that was sitting on 680i SPP. (without a fan running) I couldn't touch the HR-05 when fan wasn't running. When fan's running, it's warm to touch. It's general consensus that the SPP itself reaches 100C+ without active cooling.

 

[aka1nas]

472Mhz is pretty good for the 680i. Those boards don't quite hit the same FSB speeds as the P35 boards can.

 

[PCTC2]

Yes, active 60mm fan cooling (stock HSF). My board can hit 466.67MHz FSB with default multiplier (8x) on my E6400 and somewhere around 500MHz at 7x.