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I hope i may bother you guys (and gals?) with a problem straight of the bat. I have the Asus P6X58D-E motherboard and a Xeon x5650 cpu. I installed this cpu the other day to squeeze some more life out of this setup, was running with an i7 930 before. The xeon works fine (and much faster!) so i am overclocking a bit. Got the multiplier at 20 and bclk at 200, runs smooth for hours with prime95. I did not change Vcore. What worries me is that the temp goes up to 94 degs C and throttling occurs. This is with a scythe big shuriken HS. I am talking about the "CPU temp" with Hwinfo (i also measured with Asus Ai, which reads 10 degs lower. Speed throttling is happening according to hwinfo.
The heatsinks (both stock and scythe) are very hot to the touch, so heat must be dissipating. (I say this because i am very certain i mounted the HS correctly) Mounting the scythe was a major PITA, since it uses that horrible pushpin meganism. I did this: applied a rice size amount of thermal paste, after cleaning first. Placed HS on cpu, positioned the white feet at/in the holes. Pushed softly down on all pins one by one, such that the white pins go through the board and the wider base of the pin rests on the pcb. then i clicked down all four of the pins symetrically until they all made the two "clicks". I even re-did it with the mobo outside of case. Other information i can think of: about two years ago my cpu fanspeed started going wild, so i started monitoring temps: really high (this was with the i7) and very fast fluctuations; like 10 degs in a second when starting a program and the same drop when closing it. Eventhough i reaplied the cooler with new paste and cleaned it: did not solve this. I see the same fluctuations with this new processor / HS combination. Weird. The mobo is bent, probably due the mounting stess. When one end is on the table, the other end is about 1 cm off the table.
I think that either my motherboard is defective in some manner, or the physical deformity of the thing causes inadequate contact between cpu and HS. The latter i deem unlikely, since after removing the HS, the thermal paste is spread out in a symmetrical and flat circular pattern, indicating flat contact surfaces.
Question 1: when running stock settings at full load, it still heats up to 75 degs, i presume this is abnormal?
Question 2: what is happening & how do i solve it?
The heatsinks (both stock and scythe) are very hot to the touch, so heat must be dissipating. (I say this because i am very certain i mounted the HS correctly) Mounting the scythe was a major PITA, since it uses that horrible pushpin meganism. I did this: applied a rice size amount of thermal paste, after cleaning first. Placed HS on cpu, positioned the white feet at/in the holes. Pushed softly down on all pins one by one, such that the white pins go through the board and the wider base of the pin rests on the pcb. then i clicked down all four of the pins symetrically until they all made the two "clicks". I even re-did it with the mobo outside of case. Other information i can think of: about two years ago my cpu fanspeed started going wild, so i started monitoring temps: really high (this was with the i7) and very fast fluctuations; like 10 degs in a second when starting a program and the same drop when closing it. Eventhough i reaplied the cooler with new paste and cleaned it: did not solve this. I see the same fluctuations with this new processor / HS combination. Weird. The mobo is bent, probably due the mounting stess. When one end is on the table, the other end is about 1 cm off the table.
I think that either my motherboard is defective in some manner, or the physical deformity of the thing causes inadequate contact between cpu and HS. The latter i deem unlikely, since after removing the HS, the thermal paste is spread out in a symmetrical and flat circular pattern, indicating flat contact surfaces.
Question 1: when running stock settings at full load, it still heats up to 75 degs, i presume this is abnormal?
Question 2: what is happening & how do i solve it?
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