ECS NFORCE3-A939 issues

[Lutheran122]

I am having 2 issues with this board.

1) The motherboard bios reports that my brand new AMD 64 3500 is running at
55C-65C and thats on bootup , I hit my power button and immediately go into
the bios and it already says 53C or more and for the rest of the time the pc
is on it go's back and forth between 55 and 65. The voltage is correct and I
am using the latest bios on the ECS website. Is anyone else having this issue?


2) When looking at the bios settings , the HT multiplyer only go's up to 4 ,
leaving me at 800 HT speed ( 1600 effective ). Shouldn't this chip be
running at 1000 ( 2000 effective )? If so , how can I get that multiplyer to
have a 5 setting? The cpu is a version DH-E6 Venice core , steeping 2. I
appreciate any answers , tech supports email reply was very poor.

 

[Zap]

Couple of things to try for the CPU... Does the heatsink actually get really hot? If so, then either a problem with the fan on it or the case ventilation. If heatsink doesn't get hot then contact between heatsink and CPU is not good so try reseating the HSF and use a nice thin layer of heatsink compound. Another thing to try doing is to disable Smart Fan (assuming you have that option in BIOS).

You are correct that the CPU supports 5X but the board may only support 4X. For instance some socket 939 boards use the Nforce4-4X chipset which limits them officially to 4X. I think some lower end Nforce3 chipsets (Nforce3-250 instead of Nforce3-250GB???) may also have that limit. Don't worry though, you'd have a hard time measuring the performance difference let alone noticing a difference.