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Hey everyone,

I have a P5N32-E SLI 680i motherboard. The north/ south bridge gets very hot. The motherboard already has some pretty extensive heat piping.

I was wondering, has anyone tried any after market coolers with this, or any 680i motherboards?

trueg50 wrote:Hey everyone,

I have a P5N32-E SLI 680i motherboard. The north/ south bridge gets very hot. The motherboard already has some pretty extensive heat piping.

I was wondering, has anyone tried any after market coolers with this, or any 680i motherboards?

I used to have the P5N32 SLI Deluxe motherboard and I didn't experience any problems with overheating. What temps to you get? Or are you judging from touch? What case and fan cooling are you using? With good airflow I don't think you should have any troubles.

Try sticking to one thread per subject. Kind of an annoyance to do multiple posts, might be the very reason why no one replies. I wouldn't have if I saw it before.

http://forums.legitreviews.com/about834 ... t=p5ne+sli

Sorry about the multi-post, still getting used to using forums.

The P5N32-E SLI and the P5N32 SLI deluxe are completerly different. the "-E" means it is using the 680i chipset. and its northbridge, properly cooled, can burn you to the touch easily.

any one have any tips?

i have the same mobo...doesnt run too hot on my end though...and i live in a desert(which is already warmin up)..i do wonder why ur touchin it

You could try replacing the thermal paste.

I personally wouldn't try it because you gotta squeeze those stupid little pins on the back of the board, and there have been cases where I couldn't get them off.

trueg50 wrote:Sorry about the multi-post, still getting used to using forums.

The P5N32-E SLI and the P5N32 SLI deluxe are completerly different. the "-E" means it is using the 680i chipset. and its northbridge, properly cooled, can burn you to the touch easily.

any one have any tips?

Yeah I know it is a different chipset but they aren't completely different, e.g. they use the same cooling technique you still need to give us more input. Case, Cooling, Components.

I have the P5N-E SLI and, yes I know you have the 680i chipset and I have 650i. But if you had the plus version of the P5N32-SLI it would use the same NB. Anyways my northibridge runs very hot. I have changed the paste and it still runs hot (btw I have never seen badly applied paste on ASUS boards nor other products, they are not like gigabyte). If I were to OC I would dedicate a fan blowing at it.

When I had the P5N32-SLI Deluxe in a P180 case I didn't have to since I used the Scyte Ninja as CPU cooler with a 120mm blowing at it and also the outlet from the SB and NB cooling. The case itself has two crossing 120mm fans on both sides of the NB and SB heatpipe outlet pulling air out.

So to give you any advice on the heatissue on the NB on your mobo you really need to tell us about more than just which mobo you are using.

I have a NB cooler from swiftech and I would say they are the best if you want air cooling
review: http://www.dvhardware.net/review61_SwiftechMCX159.html

I have the all copper version: http://www.swiftnets.com/products/mcx159-CU.asp

it's amazing