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Is it true P965 runs really HOT and needs extra cooling?!

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Dance123

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Hi,

I read somewhere that the P965 chipset runs extremely HOT compared to previous chipsets like 945P. Is this true? How much hotter does P965 run then 945P or 975x? Anybody knows at how much °C those 3 chipsets run or what the difference is in °C or in percentage so I can have an idea?

Now, does this mean that if you have an E6600 Conroe with P965 chipset, you will really need a mobo with heatpipes or an extra large CPU fan that also covers the chipset, or isn't that necessary?

I don't intend to overclock, but I still want to know if this P965 chipset needs extra cooling or mobo with heatpipes or should I not be concerned about this?! Please let me know!!
 
Unless you plan a major overclock, the stock cooling on any motherboard is more than enough. Most manufacturers provide more than ample cooling for their chipsets. What mobo are you looking at?
 
If you aren't overclocking I'm sure that all of the manufacturers have decent enough cooling to keep everything stable.
 
Thing is that the P5B Deluxe has heatpipes.. however I intend to get the P5B vanila which doesn't have those. Will I need extra cooling then?

Isn't it so that the P965 runs ALOT hotter then chipsets like 945P, etc..? I believe I read this somewhere on a site that pointed this out..

And there must be a reason why they give the P5B Deluxe those heatpipes, or are those only there for overclocking (which I am not gonna do)?!! Please explain!
 
Heat pipes just transfer the heat to another area on the board. The benefit of heatpipe cooling on a motherboard is that heat from the chipset can be transported to an area on the mobo with more free space (and no overhanging, heat spewing gfx cards) where that can be dissipated more effectively using a larger heatsink and help from the cpu fan. So if you get the P5B vanilla which doesn't have heatpipes you wont need to worry about cooling the chipset, but please keep in mind that many chipset fans are noisy and unreliable; meaning that you may have to replace the default chipset cooler at some point anyway. Either way, I would go with whatever board fits your needs best. Consider heat pipes a bonus if the mobo has it, but I wouldn't recommend choosing a motherboard simply because it has heat pipe cooling.
 
In short, no. Not unless you are overclocking, and then I would recommend the Zalman northbridge flower heatsink in that case. I just ran my P5B-E through 24 hours of Orthos and SuperPI with no issues at all and that was with the stock northbridge hs.
 
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