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AMD dual core locations?

Phil2008

Phil2008

Phil2008

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Ive just got a opteron 185, and when I strees the cpu,, 1 core is at 65c and the other is at 75c, and at idel there about 1 or 2c out of eachother. Ive resat the heatsink twice by putting a the size of a grain of rice of AS5 in the middle of the cpu, with no change in temps at all. Im using the stock heatsink that came with the cpu.

I thinking of totally covering the cpu with a very thin layer of as5, just incase the 1 spot of as5 in the centre is missing one of the cores?

Also are both the cores near enough ment to be the same temp?
 
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Probably nothing to do with your application, its really one die under there btw. Likely your IHS has bad contact or too much thermal compound on one side internally, only real way to solve is taking off the IHS. This will also improve your temps, btw both temps you got there are a little too warm for comfort and points to a shabby IHS installation at factory, many of my Opterons suffered from this.
 
i redid mine twice, covering the IHS with a light smear both times and each time i took it off i had excellant contact but somehow both of my cores are still worlds apart on temps.

i'm thinking it's a bad contact between core and IHS, not IHS and CPU cooler so i'm thinking of removing the IHS if i can still fit my cooler afterwards.
 
Just been reading up on it, and I cant do that cos the heatsink wont fit tightly... If the problem is as you say, a new heatsing wont make much diff will it?
 
Might bring your temps down a little, however it prolly won't help the temperature differental between the cores much. Also if its really bad IHS contact then it might not help much at all.
 
So what can I do,, can I send it back for poor temps?? Will my temps inprove if I let it settle in, and dont stress it?
 
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Swap it with me and my Opty 170, with the IHS removed. :)

As for removing the IHS google it, its not hard but you have to be very careful.

But I reccomend selling it to me. :)
 
different temps on the cores is natural, don't worry, i've taken the ihs off my dual core 939 and the temps for each core are still different
 
I dont understand it, the idel/windows temps are similar to my fx55 temp in the 30s,, but as soon as you stress it out with prime95, temps go stright to the 50s and then slowly increase from there.. Is that normal??
 
Thinking to buy this heatsink guys,, what do you think?
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Will I have probs fitting it to this board with the mem being so close?
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