Re: A8N-SLI Premium -- reported temps

• From: GSV Three Minds in a Can <GSV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 22:53:42 +0100

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:17:26 +0100, GSV Three Minds in a Can
<GSV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bitstring <dbt96k$6oe$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, from the wonderful person RJT
<spamsucks@xxxxxxxxxx> said

jgabbai@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,
 My A8N Sli premium is reporting temps of:
 36 Degrees for the CPU,
51 Degrees for the system,
73 Degrees for the GPU (!)
 However, using the Everest utility, I get:
 Motherboard: 51 C
CPU: 25 C
AUX: 36 C
GPU: 62 C
GPU Ambient: 49 C
 The southbridge is so hot to the touch, that you can barely touch
it.
The southbridge itself is very hot, but the fins are quite cold. I am
using a lian li case, so the motherboard is upside down - I assume this
doesn't make a difference. Really confused by these results :(

A heatpipe works like this: the fluid inside gets hot, the rises up to
the top to cool down, then descends again to be re-heated, thus
creating a flow inside the pipe.

Close but no cigar. The fluid actually =boils=, soaking up latent heat
of vaporisation, and the vapour condenses (releasing the same latent
heat) at the cold end, and then runs back (or is wicked back) to the hot
end.

Yup, that's why the A8N-SLI Premium's heatpipe cooling works in the
horizontal position as well as vertical and why some CPU heatpipe
coolers claim to work equally well regardless of the position in which
they're installed.
I think the heatpipe cooling on the A8N-SLI Premium is working
superbly for almost all users.  I have read posts, however, of
chipsets that are too hot to touch, even when the board is mounted as
intended.  It's starting to sound as though there may be some
manufacturing defects, but I've not read that this has been confirmed,
yet.  It would take someone RMAing their hot board and then getting a
cool chipset on their replacement to be sure.  So far, I just haven't
noted anyone reporting that.  At this point, all we know is that there
is great disparity in the chipset temps from board to board, ranging
from "cool to the touch" to "too hot to touch."  The differences are
so great, that it's difficult for me to believe that they could be
accounted for by variations in enclosures, other components installed,
or heatsink ventilation.

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• References:
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