i7 950 Overclock Temperature Check?

ak22 · 15 Jan 2011 at 20:53

I brought he blackops PC form overclockers about 2 months ago, this morning I booted up my PC and got "overclock failed message" So I called Overlockers they told me to change the voltage the CPU 1.3375.

I ran Real Temp/Prime 95 test:

84C seems high any ideas, I am worried to leave my pc rendering 8+ hours in case it over heats, I have never overclocked my self doing some reading now into but don't want to mess it up any tips?

System Specification
- Case: Coolermaster HAF 912 PLUS - Black
- Power Supply: Corsair TX 750W
- CPU: Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz Overclocked to 4.00GHz
- Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth X58 TUF (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard
- Cooler: Prolimatech Megahalems Rev B CPU Cooler /120mm Fan
- RAM: Corsair Dominator (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Triple Channel Kit
- Hard Drive: Seagate Baracuda 7200.12 500GB 16MB Cache
- Graphics Card: Choice of Nvidia DX 11 Graphics cards

TUNSTALL_NICK · 15 Jan 2011 at 21:19

my rig runs at 4.2 at 1.288 stable never had any issues.

ak22 · 15 Jan 2011 at 21:49

TUNSTALL_NICK said:
my rig runs at 4.2 at 1.288 stable never had any issues.

Wow how are you max temps so low? water cooled also how do you get 4GHz showing on CPUz min shows 2086.6??? for some reason surely its should at least show 3GHz the standard clock speed

shadow_boxer · 15 Jan 2011 at 21:55

ak22 said:
Wow how are you max temps so low? water cooled also how do you get 4GHz showing on CPUz min shows 2086.6??? for some reason surely its should at least show 3GHz the standard clock speed

I doubt they are max load temperatures. Real Temp running for 15 seconds at idle!

Intel's power saving technology "Speed Step" most likely cause of showing 2086.6 on CPU-Z/Real Temp. Run a stress testing programme and then it'll go up to 100% load and what ever you have set your CPU to in the BIOS.

ak22 · 15 Jan 2011 at 21:56

shadow_boxer said:
I doubt they are max load temperatures. Real Temp running for 15 seconds at idle!

Intel's power saving technology "Speed Step" most likely cause of showing 2086.6 on CPU-Z/Real Temp. Run a stress testing programme and then it'll go up to 100% load and what ever you have set your CPU to in the BIOS.

Ah I see thanks for reply now just need to get these temps lower

bifday2k · 15 Jan 2011 at 22:56

slap a 2nd fan on your cooler, that will always help some.

ak22 · 15 Jan 2011 at 23:23

bifday2k said:
slap a 2nd fan on your cooler, that will always help some.

Push n pull build?

bifday2k · 15 Jan 2011 at 23:29

yup exactly that, will aid the temps a bit.

shadow_boxer · 15 Jan 2011 at 23:43

Yeah using a push/pull setup will help a little. Do 4 hour Prime95 and keep an eye on temps. If all nice and stable can go into BIOS and try lowering Vcore to get a better overclock as most 950s shouldn't need 1.3375v. My 920 does 4ghz @ 1.2850v.

ak22 · 21 Jan 2011 at 02:21

shadow_boxer said:
Yeah using a push/pull setup will help a little. Do 4 hour Prime95 and keep an eye on temps. If all nice and stable can go into BIOS and try lowering Vcore to get a better overclock as most 950s shouldn't need 1.3375v. My 920 does 4ghz @ 1.2850v.

Thanks for the advice will try this once I have time

SeeknDestroy · 21 Jan 2011 at 10:50

which fan are you using anyway? my temps never get past 75C on my i7 2600k at 4,8Ghz using the same heatsink and one Scythe Slip Stream

bifday2k · 21 Jan 2011 at 11:03

Thats a cooler running cpu so can't really compare the 2.

shadow_boxer · 21 Jan 2011 at 11:19

Remember to save the ocuk profile in the BIOS before you change anything. After making changes save to a new new profile before saving and exiting.

ak22 · 27 Jan 2011 at 22:50

SeeknDestroy said:
which fan are you using anyway? my temps never get past 75C on my i7 2600k at 4,8Ghz using the same heatsink and one Scythe Slip Stream

Using the Prolimatech Megahalems Rev B CPU Cooler with Akasa AK-FN058 Apache Black Super Silent 120mm Fan I believe.