Gigabyte H55N-USB3 Mini ITX Motherboard Running With a Quad Core Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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now like I said before there's no way I would have thrown an overclocked quad
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core on the uh the POR G55 n usb3 from
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Gigabyte that's that ITX board that I was uh overclocking on a dual core but
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what I did decide to do is throw a quad core on it and then just run Prime over
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a course of a couple of days and see how
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it fares so you can see the temperatures are unreasonably high up to 98° on some
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of the cor and that really comes down to the uh the core i5 CPU Cooler not being
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adequate really um and my room being
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quite warm after sitting in this tiny enclosed space so by the time the room
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really heated up well you see that it
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gets pretty hot so I mean really if you're running this in a little tiny ITX
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case like say for example this one then you're going to want to make sure that
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you're you're using some kind of decent cooler it might just be that I have bad
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contact with my thermal compound but um
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actually you know what that's that might be it either way okay so I'm
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running eight threads of prime 95 what CPU is
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this hold on a minute oh okay well this
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is a quad core but uh I don't think I'm
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allowed to talk about this
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one yeah I'm not okay okay so I won't talk about it anyway eight threads quad
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core it's been running Prime for a grand total of let me see see how long it ran
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for for 56 hours 49 minutes the board
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didn't blow up so that really completes my experimenting with the h55 N USB 3 it
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uh held up admirably in a room that must have been well over 30° at its worst
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with just a stock cooler with poorly applied thermal compound and the mosfets
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and the board itself did not explode so
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uh very nice