Originally posted by: corsa
...cousin just broke it on his Premium, poorly made IMO. :disgust:
Originally posted by: sourceninja
I would love to get the chipset fan to scale in linux like it does in windows. But I just can't seem to figure out how. In windows the computer is quiet as a mouse. In linux that fan is at 6k rpm's all the time and will not scale.
Originally posted by: nimbuses
Hello to all
Anyone tried out the new BIOS FW 1013?
Originally posted by: blurp
Originally posted by: nimbuses
Hello to all
Anyone tried out the new BIOS FW 1013?
Works fine here. Great actually.
Originally posted by: ProviaFan
Ok, I've been using my A8N-E for the afternoon with an X2 at stock... so far, so good, with two copies of F@H keeping everything at 100%. I found that it was most convenient to update the BIOS by putting the BIOS file only (naming it A8N-E.BIN) on an empty floppy and pressing ALT+F2 to flash from within the BIOS. That method worked fine for me, at least, when I booted up for the first time with the X2 and needed to flash from the old non-supporting BIOS to the new dual-core ready BIOS.
I think I would beg to disagree, since within 2 minutes of boot-up the 'MB Temp' reading on probe is 38C in my case and sort of stays at that level. Considering an ambient temp. of around 26-28C, there is no way that the general MB temp in the case can rise by 10-12C in such a short time. It can only be the chipset temp.napalm684, on the A8N-E, the so called "MB temperature" is _not_ the chipset temperature. this sensor must be installed anywhere else, but definitly _not_ near the nforce4.
Originally posted by: corsa
Ok, just for curiosity's sake, I have a temp probe (Bell digi-thermo) very accurate..... so i thought I might like to see what my Zalman heat sink was reading, as I do notice it is hot too touch, running stock.
So probe is about 100mm long, and i push it into the heat sink, not quite touching the base where it sits comfortably, case door is off, now onto my finding's
Ambient temp : 27C
Ambient temp inside case : 29C
Asus PC Probe : 34C
Bell digi-thermo : +50C :Q (probes max range is 50C)
The temp when measured rises quickly and I would think its atleast in the high 50's
Now this is not what I would call accurate? should we be worried about this? I would think so as we are talking up to +50C on the heat sink, why are we being fooled here, I would hate to know what its reading on die......any thoughts?
I have access to an Infra-red temp sensor, might check it with that just out of curiosity ..incedently I noticed after recently removing the surrounding material from the NF4 and reinstalling the Zalman, I noticed it was much cooler to touch..Corsa, I read many times that the temp sensor for most NF4 MoBos like the A8N-E is not placed on the Chipset. It is more of an ambient mobo sensor and it is worth nothing as you very well pointed out. Many guys noticed that when touching the Zalman HS, noting it was fairly hot.
Originally posted by: e30
sandeep, i have some homework for you today:
1. use a infrared temperature sensor to get chipset cooler temperature
2. un-plug the small chipset fan from board and monitor the "motherboard temperature"
i would wonder if you will get other results than users already have tried these things.
i don't have that much time to post senseless things on internet boards.
_maybe_ it is the voltage regulators temperature, but as i said, i did not check that out.