Asus Rampage II Extreme Northbridge (NB) temperatures

[aln688]

I haven't actually got an Asus Rampage II Extreme yet, however, I wondered if anyone out there who *has* experience high Northbridge (NB) temperatures, either at idle or full load when overclocking?

I will have Panaflo 120x38mm 86 CFM fan blowing air over video card/NB area from the front of the case, but don't want to fiddle with the board, i.e. re-applying TIM on the stock heatsink, installing a third party heatsink, etc.

Thanks.

 

[starams5]

If you are not willing to do much tinkering the only thing I could think of would be to install higher RPM fans throughout the case.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...altake%20A2018%20120mm
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...altake%20A1926%20120mm
There are better fans out there but you have to factor in dBA as well.

 

[bleucharm28]

My NB temperature is 42C according to Asus PC Probe

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[terentenet]

Intel states a Tcase of 100 for it's X58 chipset. Mine idles at 38 and under full load for a period of time it gets up to 43. CPU overclocked at 4GHz.