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High cpu voltage on Acer system

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My father's ceiling collapsed due to a burst pipe, destroying his kitchen and office upstairs. The insurers finally delivered his new pc to replace his old s754 shuttle, with a nice new Acer Aspire x1301 with an Athlon X4 620. :)

So I loaded it up, uninstalled the bloatware and stuck on cpu-z, prime etc.... Loaded up Cpu-z and the voltage was at 1.66v! Now, I'm an intel guy and not too clued up on amd cpus but I'm pretty sure that 1.66v through one of these can't be healthy?

Did some research and 1.42 seems to be me the max - http://products.amd.com/pages/desktopcpudetail.aspx?id=597&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Problem is, in the bios there are no options to change any voltages, bus speeds etc. Temps were about 50 idle according to hwmonitor, and I've left it running prime so will check back tomorrow and see if its melted :p
 
50degC idle is way too hot for a desktop, my Acer laptop runs cooler than that and it's a real toaster!

Dunno what to suggest (not an AMD fan either) other than updating BIOS. If you've got any spare thermal compound, I'd check it's been applied properly and reseat the heatsink, although it IS more likely to be the overvoltage that is frying your CPU.
 
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