Heating up too much?

supermagma

supermagma

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Hey all, back in November last year I had a PC built from a company in the UK, all custom built to what I wanted and assembled by them. I am just worried that something is wrong, my PC seems to get too hot when doing things, such as rendering a video my PC will become too hot and alert me that it will soon shutdown (something around 85°c). I also find that it warms up rather a lot playing any games, maybe 60°c. Currently sitting at 45°c from being on the internet.

This is my setup:
Intel i7 950 overclocked to 4.0GHz
Titan Fenrir EVO cpu cooler
6GB Mushkin DDR3
Sapphire HD6870 1GB GDDR5
Coolermaster CM 690 II case


Could it just be down to the overclocking they did being too high? or perhaps the heatsink or just the cpu cooler? I regularly clean the inside with compressed air. (may not be relevant but my harddrive is only 5400rpm)

Any ideas would be appreciated before I give them a call, will be a hassle to try sending a PC back to be looked at

Thanks
 
As far as I can remember yes, for example if I run prime95 it shoots to 90c according to Core Temp so I quickly close prime95.

Rather than doing anything myself to the computer though, as I have no experience, I will probably check if it is still in warranty and get the company to do it. However I may just be over reacting, so I came here to check first :)
 
What is the volts on the cpu? (use CPU-Z)

Are the case fans and the fan on the Fenrir orientated for the correct airflow?

As Tingle said, may need to reseat the Fenrir.
 
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along with the other stuff already mentioned, drop the side panel off the case and see if the temp drops, can't imagine its an airflow issue but will help rule it out.
 
mp260767 said:
along with the other stuff already mentioned, drop the side panel off the case and see if the temp drops, can't imagine its an airflow issue but will help rule it out.
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I've heard that'll make it worst, because when the intake fan takes the cold air in, it will just go out of the side of the case, instead of tunneling through to the back of the case, where the outtake fans should take the hot air out.
 
Tingle said:
I've heard that'll make it worst, because when the intake fan takes the cold air in, it will just go out of the side of the case, instead of tunneling through to the back of the case, where the outtake fans should take the hot air out.
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that's the idea for taking the side panel off, to see what happens to the temps.

if it stays the same or gets worse you know the air flow is working fine, if it drops you know the airflow isn't quite working as well as it could do.
 
have you tried running the system at default speed ?

from a quick look about the default vcore on this processors is just over 1.23 (hopefully someone can confirm that) so it appears to have been raised a bit to get the 4ghz.

might be worth copying down any settings not on auto, then setting the default speed on the processor along with the vcore on auto to see what cpu-z shows.
 
mp260767 said:
have you tried running the system at default speed ?

from a quick look about the default vcore on this processors is just over 1.23 (hopefully someone can confirm that) so it appears to have been raised a bit to get the 4ghz.

might be worth copying down any settings not on auto, then setting the default speed on the processor along with the vcore on auto to see what cpu-z shows.
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Would you be able to explain further, not too sure what you mean.
 
the processor is currently overclocked to 4ghz, depending on how good it is the bios will have been to use more vcore than at its standard speed.

when you boot the system if you the key to get into the bios (usually the delete key or F1) then have a look at the settings in there you should see one for vcore/cpu voltage (or similar) just make a note of what that is for starters and post it.
 
supermagma said:
According to the bios. The CPU voltage is manual control and at 1.30000. CPU PLL Voltage 1.86.
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that could be part of the reason for the temp, just not sure it would account for all of it.

do you happen to know if the company that supplied the system set it up with the overclocked bios settings saved on the motherboard ?

also, do you know what motherboard it is, if not click on the mainboard tab on cpu-z and it should give details.

if they haven't saved the overclocked bios it might be worth you going back into the bios, note down any settings that are not set to auto, then we could try running it at default speed with the cpu voltage set to 1.24 and see how that affects your temps.
 
Whoops I thought I put my motherboard in the original post, its an Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58. And no I don't know if they set it up with the overlocked bios saved on the motherboard.
 
had a quick look at it seems you can use ASUS O.C. Profile to save/load bios profiles.

so if you go into the settings in bios you should see an entry if they have saved it off (mean of them if they haven't tbh)

if they havent then save your current setting to an entry called oc 4ghz or similar, then try setting the bios to default settings and see how things go temp wise.
 
Can you tab down to 'load profile from' and key in the name?

save your existing settings first by naming a new profile.
 
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