CPU current too high?

JonnyC

JonnyC

JonnyC

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Hi all

My brother and me have identical machines we bought from OcUK a while back. Always love that trip up the M6 every couple of years :D

Anyway, his keeps rebooting all of a sudden. Looking into BIOS the health monitor is reporting the CPU to be at 90c and just keeps rising (got to 111c before he killed it)! My brother has confirmed it is that hot and is not a mis reading as he lost a little skin off his finger when removing it!

Looking in there there is a massive difference in the CPU Currant. Mine reads 22.41 whereas his is 37.58. I assume this is the cause of the problem, what i dont know is what is causing the CPU to draw so much. Is it mobo, psu or cpu? Any ideas please
 
oh btw, its a Intel Core 2 Quad 9550 on a EVGA 790i Ultra SLI. Corsair 1000w PSU and we have tried resetting the BIOS, all other setting are identical except for the CPU currant
 
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Yes that is the PSU. The CPU is running at 2.83 as it should be. Even when the BIOS is reset and the CPU is not configured properly it is still pulling so much more currant than mine.
 
So the PSU has two 12V rails with 30Amps and 40Amps. Both Q9550 seem to be pulling lots of current at stock speed imo. I am not vey much familiar with multi-rail PSU and whether motherboard makes use of both rails or just single rail in order to supply current to cpu.

Also I don't know if the formula Power = Voltage x Current is applicable in this situation.

I think hopefully someone with better understanding can give more through answer.
 
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