Anyone know anything about why the Gibabyte GA-K8NS Pro seems to run hot? I'm constantly getting CPU temps of 50c and higher... load takes only takes it up to 61c tho... weard, but no bios update yet, and this sys should keep even a Dec VAX cool... LL PC60, Zalman cooler, 4 total fans, 2 in 2 out... (creates a beautiful heat extraction pattern), even made sure they are all up to speed... new thermal paste (just for kicks). I'm running a A64 3400+ on it, with 1024Mb kingmax (A.K.A 1Gb, not as tho that should make a lick of difference with the heat, but the mem's find and cool as a summer squash... ) and I don't even have it OC'd (yet)... just wondering...

Quote: Originally Posted by Slavedheart Anyone know anything about why the Gibabyte GA-K8NS Pro seems to run hot? I'm constantly getting CPU temps of 50c and higher... load takes only takes it up to 61c tho... weard, but no bios update yet, and this sys should keep even a Dec VAX cool... LL PC60, Zalman cooler, 4 total fans, 2 in 2 out... (creates a beautiful heat extraction pattern), even made sure they are all up to speed... new thermal paste (just for kicks). I'm running a A64 3400+ on it, with 1024Mb kingmax (A.K.A 1Gb, not as tho that should make a lick of difference with the heat, but the mem's find and cool as a summer squash... ) and I don't even have it OC'd (yet)... just wondering...

doing a google search revealed that the mobo has temperature issues that are purely superficial, dont bet everything on it, but having a BIOS misread temps is nothing new, so it would be no surprise that your board is doing it, however, if your IDLE temp is 50C, i would first try and lower your cpu voltage, or if that is not the culprit, run PRIME95 and watch the temps, most errors and crashes will occur within the 60-65C range, so if nothing happens, then you can be almost certain that your board is, indeed, reporting bunk temperatures....not trustworthy....you will notice weirdness before any cpu just dies from overheating, errors, crashes, and all kinds of halloween on your screen...but you will almost always be able to recover no prob...just dont let it happen too much...

your only option then would be in the hands of Gigabyte BIOS updates, OR just using a cheap thermal sensor (modded from old radio shack digital thermometer or one made for the specific function...

BTW...if you are using the stock heatsink, expect stock temps...which, as a rule...suck...

let your intuition tell you if something is wrong, if things are running fine, then they are prolly just fine...

Did the google search myself, was looking for real world advice... but thanks for thinking of it. Hoped someone would have this board and found a work-around or setting irregularity or even jumper issue. If anyone's was going to own one of these boards, it would have been a member of the PR community.

Underclocked and recived similar temps, shallow overclocked and didn't get any change at all... Know what a computer does before it goes thermal, but again, solid advice... just hasn't gone that way at all...

Not a stock HSF, as mentioned, Zalman, but specificly it's a CNPS7000A-CU. Although I use this same board and mem setup in my daily driver PC (good deal at newegg, and little spare cash resulted in overpurchasing) and although it reports warm usually, never this hot. And in that one, I have a stock HSF (see gallery)

Intuition told me things were fine, but when I wanted to start documenting this pc's worklog, getting a soloution to my invisiable heat issue before I start going full on monkey tinker was important to me.

Thanks for the advice man...