I have the Asus A8NSLI Deluxe mobo. As everyone knows, the Nforce4 chipset fan is failing and has been screaming demonically for some time now. The occurences are happening more an more often, and is really starting to anoy me.

My question here is, when you look at monitoring like Asus Probe or Nvidia Monitor, is the "mobo temp" taken from the Nforce4 chip or somewhere else?

I decided with my own judgement that I could probably unplug the fan. So I did. mobo temp never went up 1 degree. I ran arithmetic benchmarks, heavy games and it went up a few degrees, never passing 38 C, which seems normal to me.

Could the chip be running hot even though my mobo temp monitor says it's still @ 38 C.

I have had trouble finding out how these programs monitor mobo temperature, and worry that it may burn out while I confidently expect otherwise.

** I have great case cooling thanks to the Thermaltake Tsunami dream.
The sink and fan are still on the board, but the fan is not running.

Touching the sink with my finger did not hurt. ;)

Any input is appreciated.

Friends don't let friends drive stock...

use an IR temp probe to measure the chip temp. There is probably no other way. You can also underclock the card to be safe.

go buy a need heat spreader, some thermal gule and a monster fan!!

dont judge till u see what it can do!

So after a day @ idle, I decided to touch the sink again. It was actually quite hot, enough to leave a mark after a few seconds. Both my monitors say mobo temp @ 33 C. The sink felt to be about 60+ C.

I plugged the fan again, after 5 minutes, the sink was cool to the touch.

So I guess to answer my own question and perhaps share it with you, the temp monitors are useless in monitoring the actually mobo processor. As much as I find that little fan useless and more of a cool looking feature, it actually does a good job cooling down the sink.

Cheers,

Friends don't let friends drive stock...

mobo temp is the same as system temp...there's a sensor somewhere on the board that basically monitors the temp within the case. It's not the chipset temp

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