wanna ask,what is the better bios for dark power user here?

Guys, have you ever wonder what's that system temp in the smart guardian software refers to which part of the motherboard?

Yesterday, when there is no activity on my pc neither a fan blowing on top of my southbridge heatsink, the temps goes up to 48degrees.

Then, out of curiosity, i tried cooling the southbridge heatsink with a powerful 2500RPM 92MM Fan.
And guess what, the temps on the "System" drop like crazy. The temp drop to 34degrees!

System Temperature without any fan blowing to southbridge heatsink: 48degrees
System Temperature with a 92MM fan running at 2500RPM blowing to southbridge heatsink: 34degrees

Sorry if this sound old to you, but this is a new thing for me.

This post has been edited by sHawTY: Jun 9 2007, 12:08 AM

same here...just grab the dark from robyncom today and got another 2 pcs of E66 than need to be 'hentam' kaw-kaw...so wanna know which bios is the stable one and best in oc...and i guess i'm gonna ask a lot of question (reading as well) in tweaking the bios...

424 bios i guess

thx shawty i'm still looking for the sensor probe too........... i think i goin to hantam 1 big fan or heat sink on the southbridge and see what happen.............. mine was shooting like crazy 55C

thanx bro...havent install the dark yet...no time yet, so just plugged the new e66 and testing it how far can it go...maybe tonite gonna join the dark side

welcome to the Dark Side of P965..............

Actually I am looking or trying to DIY a heatsink to place on top of all the power regulators beside the cpu.

Maybe that will help. I have a fan that keep blowing these regulators

Thanks Shawty. Now i know why mine is at 50+c on load. The 8800GTX is right above it. Hmmm, gotta see if i can stick a fan on the SB.

Or better yet, change the heatsink to some heatsink that has fan on top of it, but still on the same thickness of the stock southbridge heatsink.

Anyone has any ideas what type of heatsink that has fan on it but at the same thickness as the stock southbridge heatsink that can fit on the southbridge?

No HR-05 SLi please, it's overkill for the southbridge.

That would be super, but as you said, ada ka ?

Well, straight out of bed OC activity:



This with the 2 enhanced mem settings set to fast too. Butttt, orthos crashes immediately. Guess a vcore bump should fix things, and maybe off-ing that enhanced memory timing thing. ehehe.

Wow.
Impressive.

Dude, that's a supertalent ram that you bought from me right?
I'm impressed.

Dear DFI Dark owners,
just installed my mobo this morning...eveything is plugged in including the floppy onto the board to ensure stability...press the power...no go, kept on recycling...disc the hardisks (left 2 only)...no go as well...re-sit the ram...no go...took out the SB Audigy...no go...it kept on recycling on and off...clear the cmos...same oso...any ideas? and pls dun ask me to flash the mobo to the latest bios, since i couldnt make it boot up...
worked fine on my DS4...the only new thing is the proc but before i come to conclusion that the proc is the culprit, think better ask the pros here...

same problem with me.. but 2nd time boot it run wells ... no idea...

ES proc ? Also take note that the board will boot up once, then reset and then boot up properly.
The only time when it kep on resetting was when i think my GTX was loose. If all else fails, try using a different PSU just to test. I read it's quite picky on PSUs.

I suspect more on PSU.
Try using other PSU.

maybe ES processor?or like shawty said the psu problem,try swap other brand and model of ram.u have no choice now,u have to try everything since this dark power is kinda picky of hardwares as all of user know this.


the mobo will first boot the system then reset,then second time only will boot.

it's not ES one...will re-check on the gfx...but already check all connection

no more psu...the zeus died already...anyway, will try to do everything all over again tonite and see how...even change back the proc...the one that i know works before this...the one that i installed is a new one...havent try it out yet...so, if still cannot, then
so far, which 'evil' psu works fine with this dark force?

Since it's not an ES processor.
My instinct on your psu gave you the problem get stronger.

Evil?
Evil you say?

Well, my OP650 works fine with my Infinity.