Bit baffled

paranoidandroid · 15 Jul 2009 at 21:37

I have just upgraded my pc and now have the following specs

MB - Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R
CPU - I7 920 D0 Stepping 2.66ghz
Cooling Asus Triton 81

I have re-seated the CPU and cooler twice and with no overclocking at all the temps all hover around 39 - 43 which seems a bit high for a non standard cooler. What really confuses me is that the voltage showing in CPUID is only .928 and I haven't altered anything. Also if I run Prime the fan doesn't seem to get any faster under stress.

Any ideas would be really appreciated

Thanks

Paul

MasterPlan1 · 15 Jul 2009 at 21:42

Is the fan plugged into the PWM(I think it's called) fan header? I made this mistake a while back, I was a bit worried whem my zalman was running at 670rpm...

RJC · 15 Jul 2009 at 21:50

Idle temps are fine, what are your full load temps.

Which software are you using to monitor temps, your low vcore is probably due to speedstep.

paranoidandroid · 15 Jul 2009 at 21:56

Thanks for coming back to me, there is a connection for a 3 pin PWR_Fan, not sure whether thats it, everything says to connect to the CPU fan

Using Real Temp 3 to monitor temps

RJC · 15 Jul 2009 at 22:04

The fan should connect to the 4 pin cpu fan connector beside the cpu, the fan may not increased to due cpu temp may of been within excepted limits.

MasterPlan1 · 15 Jul 2009 at 22:10

The fan header which is just above the ram slots is the one you should be plugging into.

paranoidandroid · 15 Jul 2009 at 22:20

Thats the one its connected to, it looks like I will have to have a go at a bit of overclocking...that could be fun, any ideas what I should be looking at without frying the lot

Thanks

Paul

paranoidandroid · 16 Jul 2009 at 13:51

I tried prime to see how it ran without overclocking and the temperatures were pretty high, around 65-70 even popping up to 80. That seems a bit on the warm side. Just wondering now if its the Asus compund that I used, maybe should have ordered some Arctic?