Overheating chipset.

[NotHarry]

I have had a lot of trouble with my new 'Asus rog strix z690-A Gaming wifi D4' motherboard. My latest problem is a chipset that idles at 60c+.
I want to strip the heatsink for chipset in order to reseat it but you have this daft piece of plastic over the heatsink that has a cable tie attached to it, and I don't know how to remove it.
Have any of you guys striped the northbridge heat sink from one of these boards, how do you get the piece of plastic off first?

[terrywany2k]

In Power Options, Set PCI Express - Link State Power Management to "Maximum power savings" can reduce the PCH temperature .
From intel spec, the Z690 PCH operating temperature can up to 108 Celsius, so I think 60 Celsius+ is not the issue.. if you really care the temperature, just change your power options.

[NotHarry]

terrywany2k wrote:
In Power Options, Set PCI Express - Link State Power Management to "Maximum power savings" can reduce the PCH temperature .
From intel spec, the Z690 PCH operating temperature can up to 108 Celsius, so I think 60 Celsius+ is not the issue.. if you really care the temperature, just change your power options.

Thanks I will try that now. I have just this minute moved my M2 drive to the top slot which shaved around 12 degrees of the chipset temp. Hopefully your bios fix will shave a bit more.
Thing is everything is running lovely and cool apart from the chipset which was zooming into the 80's when playing games, and this heated up my entire computer and turned it into a leaf blower.

[NotHarry]

terrywany2k wrote:
In Power Options, Set PCI Express - Link State Power Management to "Maximum power savings" can reduce the PCH temperature .
From intel spec, the Z690 PCH operating temperature can up to 108 Celsius, so I think 60 Celsius+ is not the issue.. if you really care the temperature, just change your power options.

Sorry I can't find the setting you quote above in my bios. The only power management I could find was in Advanced/APM Configuration

[terrywany2k]

NotHarry wrote:
Sorry I can't find the setting you quote above in my bios. The only power management I could find was in Advanced/APM Configuration

In Windows, Control Panel, Power Options, Change Plan settings, Change advanced power settings, PCI Express(tree menu), Link State Power Management