You need to attach a cooling fan on top of the black Northbridge heatsink, then your system temperature will read as per normal. I mean below 45C

This is what I did using an old Pentium 3 Cooling fan with the used of celotape to attach it on top of the cooler. Works perfect like a charm

Currently waiting of my C2D E6600 to really test my rig. At the moment manage to push the RAM to 500Mhz stable 24/7.

well the hsf we used is diffrent the stock hsf the fan is blowing down and mine is tower type most of the hot air is blowing to the rear fan and then got suck out by the dual 120mm rear fan

Ehehe yeah. My P4 & AGP days are over. Waiting for you to sell me a quadcore at RM500 next. ehehhe

Hmmm. maybe laaa. Where's the sensor location ar ?


I attached a fan, a Global Win 70mm (i think) piece on top of the northbridge. It blows air directly to the Northbridge. The NB is cool at 30+.

Yup tried doing that as above. I also have 2 x 80mm fans sucking the air out at the back of the case, roughly parallel to the CPU and NB area. A Coolermaster and no name case fan. Can feel the air flow at the back of the case, seems cool only.

My case is a Chieftec BX 2000 Black case btw. Oh well, i'll play around and see what happens.

Hennyway, thanks fellas, all of you have been a real help in my noob c2d journey.


p/s: Are all of you on 411/424 BIOS ? I'm still on stock. I notice some settings discussed in the DFI forum are not available on the stock BIOS, i.e the DLK settings in DRAM timing.

gawd EOMA, how many times do I have to tell everyone NOT to use nail varnish? It leaves residue thanks to the acetone. Have you ever felt nail polish remover drying in your fingers? Sticky abit right? That's why use something else like tape head cleaner alcohol or Zippo fluid. Here's mine at stock cooling VCore 1.42v and VNB 1.5v



And yes I got rid of the gunky crap the NB was using as TIM and use AS5 instead. And PPM+C1e enabled

This post has been edited by almostthere: May 3 2007, 01:13 AM

My own Supertalent PC2-6400 2GB Kit 4-4-3-8 setup.

Test Rig:
Core2Duo E6420 @ 3.2GHz
Supertalent PC2-6400 DDR2 800MHz 2GB Kit 4-4-3-8 @ 1000MHz 5-5-5-12 @ 2.2Volts
DFI Infinity P965-S
Silverstone Olympia 650W

eh, but but but it's the alcohol based wan, no sticky feeling oso. hmmm, i'll go look for tape cleaner then. sorry cikgu...

Update:

DDR2 @ 1000Mhz @ 2.12Vdimm




This post has been edited by Eoma: May 3 2007, 09:01 PM

Hmm... wanted to ask all fellow Infinity 965 owners, which PC casing would you recommend for me to use the mobo with? I'm planning to start building one soon. Something below RM 400 would be welcome.

well,the mobo is ATX platform,i think a good air flow casing will give a better performance for ur pc.

Lianli pc-60 now got promotion.
coolermaster centurion 5 is also a good budget case at RM180

This post has been edited by Skylinestar: May 4 2007, 06:52 PM

Offtopic again...please use the casing section to ask instead. Focus to issues about this motherboard here

Try run at 1000MHz @ 4-4-4-12 @ 2.3Volts

again i'm in dilemma which gskill should use with this board

in beginning i wanted 2 order the F2-6400CL4D-2GBHK 2GB PC2-6400 DDR2 Kit but they currently out of stock. then my friend ask me whether 1 2 take the F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ 2GB PC2-6400 DDR2 Kit or not, he say the shop told him the HZ might be some D9GMH inside, so now dunno 1 2waith for the HK or order the HZ now??

*according 2 some review on the net, there r some Micron chipset in it but not sure which model.

can some1 here giv me some comment?

This post has been edited by gmail: May 4 2007, 10:06 PM

Well, my advice is, get those rams that confirmed to have D9GMH inside.
This way, you don't have to be worried of getting rams withouth D9GMH inside.

Find rams that confirmed using D9GMH and none other chipset.

ok i got weird stability probs here.

i have super talent rams (SUPER TALENT DDR2 PC2-5300 667MHz 2GB KIT (2x 1GB) 4-4-4-12) and i had problems running it from the start. installing windows with both sticks i couldn't get it running. only got through only by putting one of the sticks

memtest each of the individual sticks would be ok, dual channel is ok as well. only when in windows would it get cranky. u guys have any ideas??

erghhh tricky this one. Have you set optimised settings before doing anything? If yes, after that did you set Enhanced Data Transmitting & Enhanced Addressing
as Fast?

does he mean he has problem when trying to run dual channel in the mobo?

well,bro jslut.u can try running both the ram with non-dual channel mode?

just asking..is there anyone did prime 8hrs @ >500fsb?

tried once at 501fsb,6 hours....anything i can help u?

erm..how about more than tat?like 505 onwards

hmm didn't see that setting in bios, i'll try setting that first but y should default settings would affect already system stability?? not everyone would know

AceCombat : do u mean run single channel?? i'll try that too.

sorry for the late replies, major prob at workplace... some more got on tv