High Northbridge temperature even from sleep

[Scoutastic]

Running an FX 6300 @ 4.2ghz and an MSI 970a SLI Krait Edition (MS-7693) mobo. Temperatures were checked with HWmonitor and Got the same results with another temperature-reading program but can't remember which, I'll have to double-check again later.

I know the 970 chipset runs on the warm side and up, but I found it a bit odd how it's immediately at around 40c from awakening from sleep mode. I'd try the BIOS temps, but MSI doesn't list anything more than the CPU and motherboard temps. Yay.

Anyhow, does anyone have an explanation for this? The ambient temperature is usually 24-26c and it just seems odd how it can instantly get that warm just from waking.

Really no big issue, but I was curious if anyone had thoughts on that. May just be a sensor being silly.

 

[ajpaolello]

What's your cooler and how many fans in the case

 

[Faux_Grey]

40c from sleep is pretty normal.
Don't forget that power starts flowing as soon as you start it, and something passively cooled like a northbridge won't be able to get near room temperature at any rate.

I would rather worry about any sort of maximum temperature it gets to.
How hot does it get?

Remember my pentium D northbridge frequently hitting 110 degrees C.

 

[Scoutastic]

40c from sleep is pretty normal.
Don't forget that power starts flowing as soon as you start it, and something passively cooled like a northbridge won't be able to get near room temperature at any rate.

I would rather worry about any sort of maximum temperature it gets to.
How hot does it get?

Remember my pentium D northbridge frequently hitting 110 degrees C.

It tends to get around 70-80c with most demanding games nowadays, though it does get up to 105c when under load in Prime95. Nice and toasty.

And yea, it's no big issue with how warm it is from idle. Was just a little curious how it could get so warm almost instantly. Maybe I'll finally invest in a thermal reader sometime to see how it exactly does...

Forgot to mention too, but it's running a Corsair H50 and... two exhaust fans on the case because I'm cheap lmao. Less than ideal for chipset cooling so that probably explains a lot of it.

 

[Scoutastic]

What's your cooler and how many fans in the case

Two 140mm fans as a top and rear exhaust and a Corsair H50 that probably doesn't help at all with cooling the Norhtbridge. Gonna try adding a 200mm fan as an intake whenever I get around to that. Should also keep my equally toasty R9 270X a bit cooler as well aha.

 

[Faux_Grey]

Yeah, H50 wont move any air there, so 80 is a good temperature under those conditions.

I find P95 to be an unrealistically high temperature stress, I've never seen those temps under normal usage.

I would suggest maybe mounting a large, slow 140/120mm fan over the board and just have it spin at low speeds if you're worried about temperatures.

 

[ajpaolello]

40c from sleep is pretty normal.
Don't forget that power starts flowing as soon as you start it, and something passively cooled like a northbridge won't be able to get near room temperature at any rate.

I would rather worry about any sort of maximum temperature it gets to.
How hot does it get?

Remember my pentium D northbridge frequently hitting 110 degrees C.

It tends to get around 70-80c with most demanding games nowadays, though it does get up to 105c when under load in Prime95. Nice and toasty.

And yea, it's no big issue with how warm it is from idle. Was just a little curious how it could get so warm almost instantly. Maybe I'll finally invest in a thermal reader sometime to see how it exactly does...

Forgot to mention too, but it's running a Corsair H50 and... two exhaust fans on the case because I'm cheap lmao. Less than ideal for chipset cooling so that probably explains a lot of it.

I'd try one intake and one exhaust and see if temps change.