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I just installed asus probe on my computer to monitor temps. because i had a fan go out. When I play games I get an alarm for motherboard temp. My temp. it 55 c when i play cod 2. Should I be concerned about this or is this a normal temp. I have checked all fans and air flow and i don't see any problems.

I have an asus M3A78-T motherboard. I read that they do run hot but what is to hot?

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I'm not sure what to advise you what to do about your specific motherboard, but I've got my mobo temp at 84 degrees F (29 C). This is how I configure my mobo:

Run computer with my side panel off at all times. (Some people have a fan blowing on the side of their open computer case).

Install PCI fan seen here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835888112

Replaced all aluminum heatsinks with copper heatsinks. (Northbridge & Southbridge).
Install video ram heatsinks.
Install copper Zalman fan on video card.
Install memory with heatsinks.
Place heatsinks on largest chips on the mobo itself.

If a fan alarm is going off, it most likely means your computer is telling you your mobo is running too hot. You might want to consider buying a new motherboard.

You...could...get...another...fan.

You could pop the heatsink off and make sure it has some good thermal grease under it, though Asus seems to be doing better with that nowadays. I would just get another fan especially since replacing that NB might be tricky since it doesn't look like standard hole locations.

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heres some cases if you can afford to get one with good air flow. the first ones the one i use. it will run more fans the you'll ever need(i run 6)and it will support the largest video cards out there. and the best thing is you dont even need tools to work on it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811119197

here some other ones that have great cooling
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811119194

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811119196

this will be my next case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811119212

oh,a real cheap fix for your mobo would be this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... k=spotcool

I just put in a Fox-1 (for PCI Slot) and another fan in on the side panel. My temps dropped 8 c.

Then I installed a program to control my graphics fan and bumped it from the 40 (default) to 50 and it dropped another 2 or 4 degrees. Now i'm running idle at 40 to 42 degrees.

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do you use ccc? i run my fan about 50% when gaming,but i have more fans than i need. glad to hear ya got the temps down. did you check out that hwmonitor? it tells you the temps of everything.

Just installed HWmonitor this is what I got. Does anything look out of the ordinary?

Hardware Monitors
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Hardware monitor ITE IT87
Voltage 1 3.07 Volts [0xC0] (VIN1)
Voltage 2 3.39 Volts [0xD4] (+3.3V)
Voltage 3 5.00 Volts [0xBA] (+5V)
Voltage 4 4.93 Volts [0x4D] (+12V)
Voltage 5 -10.50 Volts [0xA4] (-12V)
Voltage 6 -10.30 Volts [0xA1] (-5V)
Voltage 7 5.05 Volts [0xBC] (+5V VCCH)
Voltage 8 3.36 Volts [0xD2] (VBAT)
Temperature 0 50°C (122°F) [0x32] (TMPIN0)
Temperature 1 39°C (102°F) [0x27] (TMPIN1)
Temperature 2 21°C (69°F) [0x15] (TMPIN2)
Fan 0 2922 RPM [0xE7] (FANIN0)
Fan 1 1455 RPM [0x1D0] (FANIN1)
Fan 2 2778 RPM [0xF3] (FANIN2)
Register space LPC, base address = 0x0E80

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
00 11 07 FF 00 37 FF 07 37 FF 07 58 09 07 E7 D0 F1
10 80 00 00 7F D7 80 7F 80 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00
20 00 C0 D4 BA 4D A4 A1 BC D2 32 27 15 80 43 22 22
30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 30 00 08 00 00 00
40 80 00 00 00 00 00 5F 74 2D 40 95 00 FF FF FF FF
50 FF 38 7F 7F 7F 50 56 56 90 56 0B 12 E0 00 00 00
60 00 19 37 4C 8D E0 FF FF 00 19 37 4C 8D E0 FF FF
70 00 19 37 4C 8D E0 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 7F
90 FF 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
A0 D6 06 06 06 06 06 06 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
B0 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
C0 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
D0 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
E0 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
F0 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF

Hardware monitor AMD SB600
Voltage 0 0.02 Volts [0x1C9] (CPU VCore)

Hardware monitor AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition
Temperature 0 53°C (127°F) [0x1A8] (Core #0)
Temperature 1 53°C (127°F) [0x1A8] (Core #1)
Temperature 2 53°C (127°F) [0x1A8] (Core #2)
Temperature 3 53°C (127°F) [0x1A8] (Core #3)

Hardware monitor ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series
Temperature 0 47°C (116°F) (GPU Core)

Hardware monitor WDC WD1600AAJS-00B4A0
Temperature 0 31°C (87°F) [0x1F] (Assembly)

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you can let that program run while you game.when your done gaming take a look at it,and it will say how hot everything got. you might want to look at your cpu temps under load to see how high they get.

so has your nb temps been pretty good now? you might even want to think about redoing the thearmal paste under your heatsinks. try mx2 or artic silver. if you use the artic silver remember that it is very conductive.