Extreme Burn In :D

IamMed · 29 Sep 2007 at 22:42

Got hold of a Scythe Ninja rev B today to see if it was my TR SI-120 that was giving me high temps.

Removed my old hsf and mounted the ninja, fired up my machine got into windows and thought I'd try orthos to check out my load temps.

Looked at screen after 2 mins and it was showing 105c on both cores running at 3ghz with 1.375v set in Bios :eek:

Knocked orthos off and it went down to 60c idle, had a quick browse on the forums and found out that the rev B ninja and my rev 1 DS4 were incompatible due to the capacitors above CPU socket which were stopping the HSF making proper contact with the CPU.

Took the HSF off and had a look at the base and only 2 small dots of AS5 could be seen on the bottom corners of it meaning that the CPU was basically running with no HSF at all :eek:

Seems that these core2duos are pretty solid

10mins with the dremel and the HSF bracket and all is well luckily!

w3bbo · 29 Sep 2007 at 22:49

It also seems as though the thermal shutdown aint working on the cpu. Thought they were supposed to shutdown at 90c. :confused:

Logic Zero · 29 Sep 2007 at 22:49

That is the PRO-ESTest thing ever! Nice one

IamMed · 29 Sep 2007 at 22:57

w3bbo said:
It also seems as though the thermal shutdown aint working on the cpu. Thought they were supposed to shutdown at 90c.

Maybe due to all the safety options disabled in the bios?

Jokester · 29 Sep 2007 at 23:03

Don't think you can switch off the thermal cut off.

Jokester

mattyrigby00 · 29 Sep 2007 at 23:26

they auto throttle at high temps no matter what i thought?

Jokester · 29 Sep 2007 at 23:35

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/09/27/what_if_your_cpu_cooler_fails/index.html
Article here about it, you can turn off throttling but you can't override the thermal cut off.

Jokester

Edit: Though saying that, it seems that regardless of BIOS settings, the CPU will initiate Speedstep in times of thermal emergency.

WJA96 · 30 Sep 2007 at 08:04

Some of the ES chips don't have the throttle activated.

dovey · 30 Sep 2007 at 11:58

Mine throttles to around 2.6 ghz from 3.6 if it hits 80 degrees, damm stock hs fan haha!