Big cooling problems on my new rig

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My build:
-AMD Opteron UP 165 Dual Core San Diego 1.8GHz 2MB Cache (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-151-AM)
-DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-014-DF)
-HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-HT)
-Western Digital Raptor 74GB WD740GD 10,000RPM SATA 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-015-WD)
-G.Skill 2GB DDR HS PC3200 (2x1GB) CAS2.5 Dual Channel Kit (F1-3200USU2-2GBHS) (MY-007-GS)
-Seasonic S12 600W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-002-SS)
-Zalman CNPS9500-LED Aero Flower


The problem is that the chipset and the PSU seem to be running very hot, around 50 oC, this causes all sorts of alarms to go off.
My problem is that the fan on the powersupply never seems to go above the 800 mark even with the PSU is hot.
And the chipset fan doesnt go over 7k.
I didnt notice this before as i didnt have the PSU plugged into the motherboard monitoring (i have it plugged into Fan 2)

How do you advise i fix this

or am i just being paranoid and i should increase the alarm temps?
I do have the system oc'd from 1.8 to 2Ghz by setting the FSB to 222Mhz, but the rest is running as it comes out of the box
 
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That temp on your chipset is fine - they run pretty hot - rubbish placement/design by DFI unfortunately - but makes no difference to clocks/life so relax.

Where are you getting the PSU temp from? If it worked fine before, then just unplug the header again, if you're happy with the noise. Your PWMIC temp is actually pretty good if that's a load shot - those mosfets cook without proper cooling (mine easily gets to 60+ without an Akasa pointing at it)

(and I just checked my chipset - 53C - so relax!)

Edit: and stop messing about - should easily get between 2.4 and 2.5 out of your 165 (some go to 2.7 but that's just luck - mine doesn't, but my mates does - same batch/board etc...) :p
 
thing is when i run 3d mark, it freezes up sometimes even on only 2ghz.
I put it down to the temp of the chipset maybe triggering a failsafe, turned them off will give it a go now.
running memtest now to ensure i havent got a dodgey ram chip

Any ideas what else could cause it to crash?
 
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aha i missed out the 4 pin molex connector as i had no idea what it did ><
perhaps that accounts for instability.
I did however run memtest and it all looks good, 0 errors on all the passes (always a good things ^^)

I increased the Vcore 1.37 v manually and it seems to have stopped the crashes (it was on Auto before).
Time to shut down and plug in a few cables :)


I would be interested to know how far you have oc'd and what settings you have used as a basis of how far i can push this safely as i cant seem to find any posts about it when i searched

Thanks in advance
 
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Ahhh... just needs a bit more juice!

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That's what I've got, hope it helps.
 
Nice! That's what it's all about - TBH you won't see much of an in-game improvement between 2.2Ghz and 2.5Ghz, so if it's stable, I'd start playing with the GFX card and leave the 165 where it is!
 
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