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(More customer reviews)If you are looking into making a Nehalem system, this isn't a bad board. It's far and away faster than my Core 2 Quad system. MSI has a good price on this system. However, you really need to "finish building" this motherboard for MSI.
The problem is over-heating on the x58 "Northbridge" IOH chip set. This is the chip with the big heatsink that says "MSI." With my proc running a cool 30C, the IOH was running a very hot +80C, so I put a fan on the IOH, but the chip temp only dropped to 70C (still too hot.) However the heatsink was very cool to the touch.
This made me think that the heatsink had a poor thermal bond to the IOH chip, so I pinched the nylon heatsink holders, pulled 'em out and slid off the heatsink. Heatsink was bonded by a flimsy piece of double-stick tape. I scraped the tape off with a fingernail (being carefull to not disturb the black insulating film,) applied a good heatsink compound and re-assembled the heatsink.
Voila! Heat problem solved, IOH down to 45C. If you're comfortable doing this modification, it's a great board for the $$. If not you might want to find another board, as a hot 80C degrees IOH just might burn up in a year or two... right after the warranty goes away.
NOTES: 1. You can find out more with a google search on "MSI hot x58 IOH"
2. You can see the chip temps by going into BIOS at boot and looking at Chipset Hardware Monitoring. 3. MSI *really* should offer an optional IOH heatsink that has mounting attachment threaded for a standard 40mm fan.
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