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    Skulltrail: Is it my MOSFETs or my southbridge?

    My original plan was to include 3 120mm intake fans under a window in the side panel. But, I never got around to adding the window and did not recall seeing any difference in temps with the panel completely removed. Just to be sure, I will run a quick test again tonight and see if I missed...
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    Skulltrail: Is it my MOSFETs or my southbridge?

    No change with the side panel off. I haven't done the three loops yet. But I will be sure to try both with and without the side panel for that configuration too. I'm not against adding venting to the side panel if that proves to be a problem. Thanks for the suggestion.
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    Skulltrail: Is it my MOSFETs or my southbridge?

    There is some venting too. But, yes, It's definately a negative pressure box. So long as it's kept in a low dust environment, it should be fine.
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    Skulltrail: Is it my MOSFETs or my southbridge?

    Sorry for the delayed response. I've added thread subscription now. I though it would have been automatic for threads that I started myself. It's a Rockitfish case, full tower. Not much case cooling; one intake and one exhaust. But, there are three 120mmx38mm pushing out the ceiling from a...
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    Skulltrail: Is it my MOSFETs or my southbridge?

    Well, maybe once I actually get it working :( The MOSFET waterblocks just caused the heatdump in the loop to be too much for the rads to handle (triple and double in series). Now the CPUs overheat and the multiplier gets stepped down to protect them. At a minimum it would seem that I'm...
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    Skulltrail: Is it my MOSFETs or my southbridge?

    Well, it turns out that the ADT7490 chip is a fan controller chip, one beside each CPU. The "Local" temperature is the temp of the chip itself while "Remote 1" and "Remote 2" are additional sensors for triggering the fan. I am assuming that the chip is what controls the fan speed for the CPU...
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    Skulltrail: Is it my MOSFETs or my southbridge?

    I'm assuming that those are both under the southbridge, in which case no they are not under water. The Skulltrail stock heatsink is a large aluminum sink (about 5 inches x 3 inches) that covers the three chips in a triangle formation covering the lower 1/3 of the board. The sink is actually...
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    Skulltrail: Is it my MOSFETs or my southbridge?

    Hi, When I run HWMonitor on my Skulltrail system (Intel D5400XS, 2xQX9775), my temperatures all look good except for "Remote 1" under "Analog Device ADT7490". There are two of these Analog Device ADT7490 nodes, each with a Remote 1, Local, Remote 2. What are these measurements referring to...
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    D5400XS (Skulltrail) and Prime95 3072K crash

    Looks like whatever they've been doing to the site has caused the last few posts to be lost. Here's an answer to the last post you sent me (that is not showing anymore!): Both my rigs pass 10 iterations of Intel Burn Test. The one with the same specs as yours is passing at 3.8Ghz as per the...
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    D5400XS (Skulltrail) and Prime95 3072K crash

    Why is it failing with one but ont the other? Because different code is being exercised by the different applications, resulting in different stress scenarios. It's not just a matter of pushing the CPU to 100% usage. The thing that is important is which *operations* are being performed by the...
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    D5400XS (Skulltrail) and Prime95 3072K crash

    I ended up buying all the liquid cooling parts in hopes of taking my overclock to 4.4Ghz. It'll probably be a few weeks before I get around to installing it all. But, once I do, you can buy my NB heatsink if you're interested :D
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    D5400XS (Skulltrail) and Prime95 3072K crash

    1. 399 is normal. The actual measurement, as determined by the running system, and the prescribed measurement, as set via the BIOS, don't always come to an exact match. If it makes you happy, you can bump your FSB to 401 and it will probably end up reading as 400 in the actual measures. I don't...
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    D5400XS (Skulltrail) and Prime95 3072K crash

    Ha ha. These were my first (and only) two builds also :) Either way, you will have to remove the motherboard since the stock backing plate will drop once you loosen the mounting screws. The assembly is obvious once you get it off; A backing plate with fitted screw columns that line up through...
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    D5400XS (Skulltrail) and Prime95 3072K crash

    I would suggest relaxing your memory settings as much as possible to remove the RAM from the equation. Specifically; - Set the memory to manual override mode (I read somewhere that it is a good idea to always leave it as manual, even if keeping stock settings). - Set memory timings to the...
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    D5400XS (Skulltrail) and Prime95 3072K crash

    Yes, the vCore is normal. I've seen a few reviews all coming in around there. Those that are just looking for the best benchmark will often be up in the 1.4+ range. But, I doubt that those settings would survive Intel Burn Test and/or they have better case cooling. Here's what I ended up with...
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