Recent content by chronomitch

Thanks for suggesting this. I did more research and tweaking. While getting the PCH cooler probably helped somewhat, I think the underlying problem was that my bios was doing something funky with the VCCIO and VCCSA voltages. I was able to leave these two settings on auto when the same CPU and...

All my tests so far have shown that using the C14S fan as exhaust gives better thermals for everything except the CPU, at least when the GPU is loaded and starts dumping more heat into the case. At that point, it seems to be better overall to try to get all the heat out of the case.

I performed some more investigation and found that my PCH was hitting 70 C when the CPU & GPU were loaded before experiencing a failure. I'm using a Gigabyte Z390 I Auros Pro Wifi, which has some kind of M.2 heatsink covering the regular PCH heatsink. I think the idea is that an M.2 SSD would be...

Maybe it's the chipset/pch then? I wasn't monitoring the temperature of that, unfortunately. I did notice that my ram voltage was a bit higher than it should have been according to the XMP profile. My motherboard was giving it about 1.38 V according to HWMonitor. I had to manually dial it down a...

I recently put together an NCASE M1 v6.1 build using a Noctua C14S with the stock 140x25mm fan in low profile mode and an RTX 2070 Super FE. Aside from the fan in the SFX psu (Corsair SF600 platinum), there are no other cooling fans in the system. While I have no problems with CPU or GPU...