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Posted: May 25, 2005
Author: Asylum & Spire
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Back in August 2003 we posted a popular article looking at the thermal profile of a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard with an ATi Radeon 9700 Pro graphics card installed (Click Here). The thermal imaging camera (a Mikron Infrared Thermal Imager) is back, and we have a detailed look at a couple of modern motherboards and PCIe graphics cards...
This time around we take a look at some thermal images of DFI’s latest creations, the Lanparty nF4 Ultra-D and SLI-DR. The majority of the images shown in this article are of the DFI Lanparty nF4 Ultra-D with the exception of the last three. Shown in the last three photos are the significant areas of increased temperature of the SLI-DR board. Everyone knows the importance of cooling computer components, and we'll see what areas on these boards may need extra cooling for optimum performance.
Systems as tested:
• Athlon A64 3000+ @ 300x8 (2400MHz)
• DFI Lanparty nF4 Ultra-D and SLI-DR motherboards
• 6600GT video card(s) (2 for the SLI-DR board)
• 2 x 512 TCCD G.Skill LE Ram
• 1 X 36GB WD Raptor HDD
• 2 X 200GB Seagate HDDs in RAID 1
• Thermalright XP120 heatsink
• Enermax Noisetaker 600W PSU
Test program:
• 3DMark03
In this first image we see an overview of the Ultra-D board. As you can see, several of the smaller chips are giving off some heat. More detailed images will be shown below.
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The next photo shows the back of the board. Drawing your attention to the center is the processor, glowing hot at 72.9 °C. When this image was taken ITE Smart Guardian showed a CPU temp of 43 °C.
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Next we see the card slots and surrounding areas. In this image we see three areas of interest, labeled A, B, and C. Points A and B are both small chips with temp readings of 50.6 °C and 44.0 °C respectively. Point C is a capacitor with a temperature reading of 50.9 °C.
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Now we center a little more on the chipset. In this photograph we see the same hot spots as the previous, with more focus on the chipset area.
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