Hello,
I've recently build two systems with DX58OG and i7-980X processors but I'm running into serious overheating problems. While the CPU is cold as the ice princess, the chipset is gravely overheating. Althought the fan from CPU heatsink is blowing air over chipset's heatsink, that doesn't help much. Even leaving system normally running in win7 environment, the chipset gets overheated not to mention running any application (and I believe that noone spends money for 980x to be wathching screensavers). From the beginning they are additional 120mm fans installed in the case (Chieftec Aegis) but although the air is blowing over heatsink it obviously isn't enough. I'm using normal PC vents, not ones with air flow that will suffice in cooling down the house. But as I said, I can't do anything with the system as the chipset gets to warm. The only solution so far is, to disable automatic controlling of CPUs fan and keep it running at full sped, but in that case, I need ear mufflers. So now, I'm a bit confused. I never before had such problems with Intel boards and I just don't know if the boards are faulty or is this a major drawback in Intel's engineering ? I've already upgraded BIOS and defaulted the BIOS settings, but to no help. Does anybody else have problems with mention motherboard or am I singled out in this universe ?