OCrookie Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 (edited) i have an asus striker II formula mobo with nvidia 780i sli chipset i just added two more vid cards for 3-way sli and now the northbridge is is overheating while gaming on it causing the an emergency shutdown of the computer. in the bios i can adjust the overheat warning to 80c 90c 100c or off. i'm just wondering what the max safe temp would be. currently i have the warning set for 90c. i would put my water blocks on buti have to get blocks for vid cards first because the southbridge is blocked by the first card. Edited December 3, 2008 by OCrookie Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARandomOWL Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 I don't like seeing my NB above 50 but I would say upto 65 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCrookie Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 prior to adding the new cards the northbridge was always around 65c to 70c Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeedTurbo Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 (edited) Get some more case fans for inward flow, put a fan on the nb. Edited December 3, 2008 by NeedTurbo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjloki Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 (edited) i have an asus striker II formula mobo with nvidia 780i sli chipset i just added two more vid cards for 3-way sli and now the northbridge is is overheating while gaming on it causing the an emergency shutdown of the computer. in the bios i can adjust the overheat warning to 80c 90c 100c or off. i'm just wondering what the max safe temp would be. currently i have the warning set for 90c. i would put my water blocks on buti have to get blocks for vid cards first because the southbridge is blocked by the first card. thermal lockout is 90c but you don't wqnt it to go that high .....go into bios and turn your northbridge voltage down from auto (where it is probably set), to either 1.26 to 2.40volts.....yours has different stepping than this one http://static.tigerdirect.ca/pdf/Asus_Stri...mula_Manual.pdf if you want to go lower you can provided you're stable...... this machine is stable at 1.25v nominal voltage.....(keeping in mind you have a different chipset)......yours will go way down Edited December 3, 2008 by cjloki Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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