Nforce4 Ultra chipset at 70 Celsius!

jancz3rt

jancz3rt

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Hey guys. I have talked to many people who say that their chipset temperature (Nforce4 Ultra) is 70 Celsius. Mine is at that level as well. I though that the sensor could have been off but no! It's very hot! Now I have a passive heatsing on without a fan. I thought that adding a fan would help....but I was wrong. The temp remains at 70 Celsius! According to Gigabyte, it is a safe temperature. I am not so sure.

JAN :D
 
the way i see it is that if the manufacturer says its safe it must be. this type of equipment is tested extensively before realease... if it caused a problem at the testing stage they would have put an adequate cooling solution on it to solve the issue
 
I thought that adding a fan would help....but I was wrong.
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Well either you did something wrong or the temperature is stil rising. Fans+Heatsink > Heatsink. What fan did you add?
 
I added a 40mm fan.

I added a 40mm fan for chipsets. It was blowing air pretty well but the chipset temp did not even drop by one degree Celsius! I gave up. Do you think that the problem could be the paste below the heatsing? I really do not know why it should be that high.

JAN :D
 
Lol

A late reply...but I am getting this temperature reading from Speedfan. Now I am not supid enough not to realize that the readings could be false. However, the heatsing is very very hot. I will attempt to install a modded version of the A64 retail fan just to see what the impact of that would be ;).

JAN :D
 
Jancz:
You need some kind of fresh air intake (could be a tunnel like one) directly to your chipset, so the new fan you're getting blows cool air to the chipset.
 
Yeah...

The things is the inside of my case is fairly cool and I have no other heat issues other than that of the chipset. I will need to somehow ensure that the chipset is cooled properly with a powerful fan. I have heard other people have problems with the Ultras. Anyway, I also forgot to mention earlier that my graphics card exhaust is blowing the hot air directly at the chipset adding to its heat.

JAN :D
 
Nah

The temp starts lower but levels at 70 Celsius. It is very very hot when touched so I do not doubt the truth of the reading.

JAN :D
 
70C isnt too surprising really if you think about it... all this time, ASUS boards didnt feature active cooling -- until the NF4s came to the scene... :)
 
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