Is my CPU borked?

robfosters · 12 Feb 2016 at 20:13

Just got my new graphics card today and been playing tomb raider. After 10 minutes, it hung and a horrible buzzing noise sounded from the speakers. After restarting, I ran a prime 95 test and got these results. 2 minutes after this is completely froze but with no buzzing noise. I had to restart again.

I resat the heatsink with fresh paste about 3 months ago, so that is fine. I have also given it a good clean out the last couple of days. I'm a little stumped. Does it look like it's on it's way out?

teenwolf · 12 Feb 2016 at 20:15

reseat the cooler again

robfosters · 12 Feb 2016 at 20:17

teenwolf said:
reseat the cooler again

I'm thinking about just changing it. It's an antec kuhler and I really don't like the way it's fixed on. It's a twist and lock. Hate those. Maybe one of the closed loop corsairs would do the job better.

marc2003 · 12 Feb 2016 at 20:22

Have you always ran at that voltage? Seems a little high...

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18227647

edit: if that info is outdated then ignore me. It was the result of a quick google search.

robfosters · 12 Feb 2016 at 20:26

marc2003 said:
Have you always ran at that voltage? Seems a little high...

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18227647

edit: if that info is outdated then ignore me. It was the result of a quick google search.

I dont know about voltage. My motherboard has easy overclocking presets in the bios. I just picked 4.4 and went with it. Anything above and it wouldn't start.

robfosters · 12 Feb 2016 at 20:32

Thanks for your help, but I think I'm heading off to general hardware for a recommendation. I dont want to much about with any more. It's frustrating me, it's very old and it would be nice to partner my 980Ti with something newer.

Thanks anyway.

marc2003 · 12 Feb 2016 at 20:33

Well those high temps are directly related to the voltage being shoved through it. I suspect your cooler is doing the best it can, all things considered.

With manual overclocking you should be able to hit the same overclock with lower voltage and therefore lower temps. Of course that takes time and effort but it's worth it in the long run.

edit: I can see you're not very patient.

robfosters · 12 Feb 2016 at 20:38

marc2003 said:
Well those high temps are directly related to the voltage being shoved through it. I suspect your cooler is doing the best it can, all things considered.

With manual overclocking you should be able to hit the same overclock with lower voltage and therefore lower temps. Of course that takes time and effort but it's worth it in the long run.

edit: I can see you're not very patient.

I think the 980 has given me the upgrade bug. For personal reasons, I'm kind of living for the moment now anyway, so why not.

marc2003 · 12 Feb 2016 at 20:45

Why not indeed. I hope that 980 is a ti???

robfosters · 12 Feb 2016 at 20:55

marc2003 said:
Why not indeed. I hope that 980 is a ti???

Yeah. Gigabyte xtreme gaming one.

teenwolf · 12 Feb 2016 at 20:58

is the pump working on the antec ?

robfosters · 12 Feb 2016 at 20:59

teenwolf said:
is the pump working on the antec ?

Yeah definitely.

jbh110tdi · 12 Feb 2016 at 20:59

I would drop back to stock clock and run prime. just out of interest to see if it was able to run at stock.

as above it does seem high voltage. I know when I used the motherboard easy tune it ran hot.

robfosters · 12 Feb 2016 at 22:18

jbh110tdi said:
I would drop back to stock clock and run prime. just out of interest to see if it was able to run at stock.

as above it does seem high voltage. I know when I used the motherboard easy tune it ran hot.

Doing it now.

marc2003 · 12 Feb 2016 at 22:18

Just been looking at your "spec me" thread and noticed the comment about the 8 year old PSU. I really would be upgrading that ASAP considering you now have a 980ti.

robfosters · 12 Feb 2016 at 22:34

Run prime for 15 minutes. Temps now topping out mid to high 70's and voltage is 1.2910v.

The overclock is obviously hurting it. I really dont like the cooler twist and lock fitting on the Antec. I struggle to fit it properly.

I really need to hit 4.4 at least or I will just bottleneck my 980Ti. What's a top notch, piece of **** cooler to fit that will sort me out?

Marc, I know mate. I'm ordering an 850w Superflower tomorrow. I've heard they are by far and away the best of the lot.

zipp0r · 12 Feb 2016 at 23:05

those temps are silly high for that speed. it should do 4.4 easily at around 1.28-1.31v
the auto overclocking thing probably set it to over 1.4v or something, do note that coretemp only shows the VID, NOT the actual voltage the cpu is getting. need to use hwmonitor or cpuz to see the real vcore.

Akagi · 12 Feb 2016 at 23:09

I had two, one would do 4.7GHz at 1.38v, but the other would only do 4.3 with the same voltage. Depends on the individual chip.

With that said though, auto overclocks do tend to play-it-safe on the voltage side of things, so you could probably drop it to say 1.34v.

V F · 12 Feb 2016 at 23:11

Isn't 52c for one of the cores not awfuly poor for idle temperatures? Isn't it normally 20 - 30c?

Akagi · 12 Feb 2016 at 23:14

V F said:
Isn't 52c for one of the cores not awfuly poor for idle temperatures? Isn't it normally 20 - 30c?

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