Noctua NC-U6 on a Asus Sabertooth 990FX

Hristiian VH

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Hi,

I just ordered an asus sabertooth, because i'm changing my asrock fatal1ty (it's so crap >.<).
I already have a Noctua nc-u6 heatsink for chipsets. I know that ceramic heatsinks are so good, and asus' mobo has a great thermal scores, but i think that noctua's heatsink will work better, anyway. After looking carefully the ceramic heatsinks, i've seen that they are fastened by a heatpipe.

i'm thinking about cutting the heatpipe at the NB's final, and put the noctua's heatsink.


So, my question is, it will be better to put the noctua or i should stay with stock heatsinks?

Thanks.
 
Solution
Stick with the stock heatsinks, they're more than enough to keep VRMs and chipset cool.

Great choice on the Sabertooth, I too came from a shitty ASRock board (not saying ASRock is shitty, just this board) to a Sabertooth 990FX Rev1. I now have my FX-8320 humming along at 4.816GHz 24/7 at 55°C max temperature and the VRMs and chipset are barely even warm.

Don't risk messing your awesome board up! Keep the stock Ceramix heatsinks, they're awesome!
Stick with the stock heatsinks, they're more than enough to keep VRMs and chipset cool.

Great choice on the Sabertooth, I too came from a shitty ASRock board (not saying ASRock is shitty, just this board) to a Sabertooth 990FX Rev1. I now have my FX-8320 humming along at 4.816GHz 24/7 at 55°C max temperature and the VRMs and chipset are barely even warm.

Don't risk messing your awesome board up! Keep the stock Ceramix heatsinks, they're awesome!
 
Solution


I can't even hit more than 4,6 stable with a h100i, and its clearly a board problem, because i've done everything..

 
Yeah, I don't know how but ASRock dropped the ball on their 990FX series for sure. You'll love the Sabertooth--on the ASRock I could only hit 4GHz on an H60 and with the Sabertooth I'm comfortably at 4.8GHz on an H60.
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Do you have an FX-8320?
 
Try these BIOS settings when you get your Asus, they're what I use:

Leave base clock at 200MHz and up multiplier to 24x to hit 4.8GHz

Turbo disabled
APM disabled
C1E disabled
CnQ disabled (for now)
C6 disabled (for now)

CPU LLC to Ultra High
CPU/NB LLC to High
CPU Current to 130%
CPU/NB Current to 120%
CPU Power Phase to Extreme
CPU Voltage to Auto

I re-enabled Cool n Quiet and C6 after I settled on a 24/7 stable overclock smile.gif