Q9550 high temps - will it blow?

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After having recently replaced my dead Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P for a GA-EP45-UD3LR I have started over-clocking again.

On my old board, 3.4 was the best stable clock I can get.

Now with the right settings I managed to get it to 3.8 and stable running several sessions of Intel burn Test.

The only issue i have is core 0 hit 76 degrees on the extreme burn test.

I felt the AC freezer pro 7 v1 heat sink and it was warmish.

I played BF:BC2 for over an hour and the highest recorded temp was 56 degrees, and the game was noticeably smoother.

Is 76 degrees too dangerous under a fully loaded situation, will my chip survive for long at this clock speed?
 
Nope. That temp was okay. Try doing a 20 runs on both LinX and Intel Burn test on max memory and monitor your temp using both Real temp 3.4 and Core temp 99.5.
 
76c when stressing is grand, though tbh, the freezer pro isnt a great cooler when it comes to overclocked quads. With a better cooler you could drop temps a good deal.
 
plasmahal said:
Which makes this cooler so tempting... a lot of money though.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-011-NC&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395
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nope, its still a garbage cooler on a highly clocked quad, i tried it on my 3,8ghz q6600 and a q9550 at 3.8ghz, it got disregarded very quickly, went back to my lapped TRUE, absolute bargain, cooled a 3.8ghz q6600, 3.8ghz q9550, still cooling an i7 920 at 4ghz with ease, the only other option is custom water cooling.
 
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My D14 outperformed my stock and lapped TRUE by about 8C easily. Currently IBT loading at 71C 72C 69C 70C in 26C ambient, cpu @ 4.2Ghz 1.35v, stock TRUE hits 83C easily with some decent Sycthe SFF21G fans in push pull, and those are much louder, cpu is not lapped so can't really be certain about the lapped TRUE but don't see 8C performance difference. Plus i've noted the Noctua scales with higher vcore/faster clocks much better.
 
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Q9550 @ 3.8 even with relatively high vcore won't come anywhere near the heat output of an i7 around that speed, even with lower vcore. My Noctua had my Q9550 @ 4Ghz 1.325V running around 63C max IBT when the days were like 29C ambient in the house.
 
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70c seems abit high to run every day, especially when you could reduce the temps easily. My Q9550 running at 4ghz doesn't go above 56c under full load using a Corsair H50. Theres plenty of good coolers if you really want to run those sort of overclocks.
 
A Titan Fenrir will cope with 3.8Ghz no problem and only cost like 29.99, i've got one, and some MX-3 to replace my AS5. When my rigs all put back together i'll throw up some results for you with my Q9550, might even chuck up some E8500 results as i've just picked one up for Overclocking fun.
 
1uke said:
70c seems abit high to run every day, especially when you could reduce the temps easily. My Q9550 running at 4ghz doesn't go above 56c under full load using a Corsair H50. Theres plenty of good coolers if you really want to run those sort of overclocks.
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Would like to see what you consider ' full load ' ?


capturebds.jpg


Ambient room temp now 23.7 degrees.

This is with a toasty Northbridge chip in the same loop, single fan @ 68% ( ~7v).

Northbridge will be probably adding ~ 8 degrees ( could be more ) compared to a single cpu loop.

Cheers.
 
mrdbristol said:
Would like to see what you consider ' full load ' ?


capturebds.jpg


Ambient room temp now 23.7 degrees.

This is with a toasty Northbridge chip in the same loop, single fan @ 68% ( ~7v).

Northbridge will be probably adding ~ 8 degrees ( could be more ) compared to a single cpu loop.

Cheers.
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On full load, the q9550 i had maxed out at 57c at 3.8ghz under a lapped TRUE with a pair of sharkoon silent eagle se fans (pwm 400-1200), nice low vid chip of 1.200, clocked on an asus p5q deluxe p45 board, 1.216 vcore. I think it would have went a lot higher, but i sold it to fund my i7 rig
 
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