780i northbridge fan

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goodoneian

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i recently got an evga 780i mobo, and so far so good. my only concern is the northbridge reaching the 170 degree fahrenheit area. the included fan for it seems to cool it good, but is obnoxiously loud. i've seen on the bios that you can change speed which i've tried, but nothing changes. what i am doing is going to the system monitor, then dynamic fan control to adjust the percentage. am i doing this wrong or is it the motherboard?
 
also, i am runnning vista 32 for now and speed fan constantly stops responding so i can't use that. plus, i could never get speedfan to work right anyways:(
 
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both seem like pretty good ideas. i think i may have temporarily solved the problem though. i have a fan mate 2 from my old zalman cpu cooler which i attached the northbridge which has seemed to work quite well so far
 
yea, all you need is a bit of air movement over/in that heatsink. I dont see a problem with a fanmate beeing used there :)
 
Before going too crazy with mods or anything, I'd confirm the temps elsewhere, such as PC Wizard. Speedfan isn't exactly known for it's reliable temperature readings. If you're mostly concerned with the temps, you may find Speedfan's misreading something.
 
The_Other_One said:
Before going too crazy with mods or anything, I'd confirm the temps elsewhere, such as PC Wizard. Speedfan isn't exactly known for it's reliable temperature readings. If you're mostly concerned with the temps, you may find Speedfan's misreading something.
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i'm actually getting the temperature readings for that off of the bios, which is proabably pretty accurate.
 
even with the fan speed reduced it is still quite noticeable though. will not using the fan at all cause damage to the motherboard/ northbridge?
 
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