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Yeh, its fine if you turn it off at the wall for 20 seconds.
Do I have a stinker of a chip?
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Actually I just removed the motherboard battery and put it back in again. Seemed to clear things up.
Overclocking seems to be a bit more straightforward now that I've set everything to "Auto" in the BIOS. It seems to work out an appropriate voltage to make a given overclock stable, so the only bottleneck now is heat. It's creeping above 60C at 3.6GHz (65 if I put the side of my case back on
), so I won't push it any higher on this heatsink. Which is a shame because this heatsink is new, supposedly very good, and I was hoping for at least 3.7 so as to beat my old E5200.
Overclocking seems to be a bit more straightforward now that I've set everything to "Auto" in the BIOS. It seems to work out an appropriate voltage to make a given overclock stable, so the only bottleneck now is heat. It's creeping above 60C at 3.6GHz (65 if I put the side of my case back on
), so I won't push it any higher on this heatsink. Which is a shame because this heatsink is new, supposedly very good, and I was hoping for at least 3.7 so as to beat my old E5200.
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If the temps go down when you open your case then you have bad airflow
What case fans have you got as that could help bring the temps down a bit
What case fans have you got as that could help bring the temps down a bit
The temperatures also go up if I close my back door, coincidentally to the same temperature I get if I close my case. So it's not the case which has bad airflow, it's my flat.
Okay I have it running stable at 18.5x200 = 3.7GHz. Yay. But it's tenuous. It needs 1.4875V through the CPU, and testing in Prime95 will only work if I restrict it to testing 2 cores at a time. Otherwise it will probably get too hot and die. As it is, it's hovering around 61C with just 2 cores under full load.
The good thing is, nothing other than stress testing tools ever makes the CPU that hot. So it seems it will be stable so long as I keep an eye on the temperatures.
So yay, I finally have a clock speed marginally higher than what I was able to achieve with a £53 core2duo. :-/
Off topic, but are there any apps which will allow me to see the temperature of each core independantly? Core Temp only shows the temperature of core 0.
Okay I have it running stable at 18.5x200 = 3.7GHz. Yay. But it's tenuous. It needs 1.4875V through the CPU, and testing in Prime95 will only work if I restrict it to testing 2 cores at a time. Otherwise it will probably get too hot and die. As it is, it's hovering around 61C with just 2 cores under full load.
The good thing is, nothing other than stress testing tools ever makes the CPU that hot. So it seems it will be stable so long as I keep an eye on the temperatures.
So yay, I finally have a clock speed marginally higher than what I was able to achieve with a £53 core2duo. :-/
Off topic, but are there any apps which will allow me to see the temperature of each core independantly? Core Temp only shows the temperature of core 0.
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Clock speed doesnt equal performance, you have 2 extra cores than the c2d and running at the same frequency, plus the amds run fater clock for clock.
Really? Do they really?
Super Pi 1M. My E5200 clocked to 3.7 managed that in 16.3s. This Phenom II takes 18.6s, and this is on a fresh clean install. Even though Super Pi is single-threaded, that would seem to indicate that the new chip is slower clock-for-clock.