Anything wrong with this set-up? I3 530

chrisgt · 4 Sep 2012 at 18:18

An old i3 530 @ 4.2GHZ (21x200) with Kingston Hyper X Genesis Grey 8GB memory.

Temps are from running Windows Experience Index..

ubersonic · 4 Sep 2012 at 19:14

My i3 540 is topping out at 70 while running Prime, that's at 3.8ghz and is supposed to be fine. Not sure how comparable WEI is tho.

pgi947 · 4 Sep 2012 at 19:24

70c from running WEI, I'd expect 15-20c higher than that from prime/IBT tbh. Even a CPU intensive game may push the temps upwards of 10c from that.

chrisgt · 4 Sep 2012 at 19:30

pgi947 said:
70c from running WEI, I'd expect 15-20c higher than that from prime/IBT tbh. Even a CPU intensive game may push the temps upwards of 10c from that.

Running Prime95, will post back with peak temps. What's an acceptable peak temperature in your opinion?

pgi947 · 4 Sep 2012 at 19:56

Depends on the TJMax of the chip, can't find anything solid for it (realtemp should tell you) but I suspect it to be around the 100c mark, so ideally you want to be below 80c.

chrisgt · 4 Sep 2012 at 20:43

I can't get back to 4.2GHZ!!

21x200MHZ @ 1.35VCore won't boot...which is EXACTLY the same set-up I had before. It now won't boot and I have to reset CMOS or it'll boot and say an overclock failed and revert to default (2.93GHZ).

Rolled back to 3.2GHZ - 20x160MHZ @ stock voltage for now..

Any ideas why this would stop working all of a sudden? Been @ 4.2GHZ for about 2 years, I just wanted to check the above because the QPI Link looked a bit high...very confusing.

chrisgt · 5 Sep 2012 at 10:44

Has anyone got an ideal set-up (blck/multiplier/vcore/memory settings) for 4.00GHZ on an i3 530?