Check my temps [OC noob]

Josh P · 2 Feb 2010 at 18:26

Hi,

I've just powered up my PC and these are the temps I'm getting from 8 smallFFT workers in Prime95.

I've got a Megahalems with Akasa Apache push-pull, and I'm using MX-3 TIM. Are these OK temps for stock?

Edit: I just stopped the tests and within 2 seconds all cores were at mid-30s. Sound good? It was idling at 29C before I started.

RJC · 2 Feb 2010 at 18:31

Not to bad, I get around 70c ~ with my TRUE with the cpu running at 4ghz.

What's your airflow like.

setter · 2 Feb 2010 at 18:39

This is mine at stock

At load at 4ghz

TRUE black, 2x 400-1200 rpm pwm fans. I can get them about 6c lower by swapping to 2 x 2000 rpm silent eagles, to noisy though and ive lost my fan controller.

Josh P · 2 Feb 2010 at 18:55

I've got a Fractal Define R2, with fans everywhere they can go except the base. The sides are off at the moment. I was wondering whether my cooler is seated properly, I screwed it down until I got scared something was going to break, and used about two peas-worth of TIM.

At the moment I'm only 10C off your 4GHz temps, and I'm at 2.8GHz. Should I be worried?

setter · 2 Feb 2010 at 19:01

To much TIM can be a bad thing, all you need is a rice grain sized drop on the centre of the cpu's ihs. The pressure of the heatsink will spread it out.

philip j fry · 2 Feb 2010 at 19:09

does sound like a lot of paste there "2 x pea size worth" , as setter says you realy only need about the size of a grain of rice applied to cpu then fit cooler ( or some ppl smooth over with cling film on finger but everyone is different)

Josh P · 2 Feb 2010 at 19:13

Oh dear - I took a picture at the time, I'll upload it.

Ricardox1 · 2 Feb 2010 at 19:14

bit warm

Josh P · 2 Feb 2010 at 19:21

Sounds like too much:

Ricardox1 · 2 Feb 2010 at 19:22

half of that amount will be perfect

Josh P · 2 Feb 2010 at 19:32

Balls - it is worth me removing the cooler and re-applying? It'd be nice to reach 4GHz.

philip j fry · 2 Feb 2010 at 19:36

Tbh looking at that pic i would'nt say thats 2 xpeas worth tbh unless they are realy tiny peas lol , but may be worth reseating with a little less might help temps a bit

iNPUt · 2 Feb 2010 at 20:01

Josh Pencheon said:
I've got a Fractal Define R2, with fans everywhere they can go except the base. The sides are off at the moment. I was wondering whether my cooler is seated properly, I screwed it down until I got scared something was going to break, and used about two peas-worth of TIM.

At the moment I'm only 10C off your 4GHz temps, and I'm at 2.8GHz. Should I be worried?

Put your sides back on otherwise there is no airflow.

Josh P · 2 Feb 2010 at 20:34

I'll try that next, just got to sort a few cables out. I don't really want to take the cooler off (obviously

), so I'll try anything!

Josh P · 3 Feb 2010 at 14:55

Little update, I've put the sides back on and added a slow 140mm fan in the side for the graphics cards. I've also upped the bclk to 160MHz so I'm running at 3.37GHz with Turbo.

Here's what I've got (I haven't reseated):

Ricardox1 · 3 Feb 2010 at 14:58

Temps are looking much better, good job man!

philip j fry · 3 Feb 2010 at 18:15

Those temps seem better m8 .
Now see what it can realy do