High Temps

edGfaCTor · 7 Jul 2011 at 15:53

I am running

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4670 Ultimate Passive
I5 2500 with intel stock cooler
asus p8h67-m pro optimal settings with only change being achi rather then ide and running latest 1003 bios.
silverstone grandia gd01b-mxr case which has two 80m fans at the rear and there is also two 92m fans at the front.

the cpu temps at idle are 60c in hwmonitor, I reseated the heatsink and replaced the paste with mx2 no difference any ideas what the problem might be?

edGfaCTor · 10 Jul 2011 at 11:30

Any one?

I can provide more details if needed.

Tekgun · 10 Jul 2011 at 11:51

Have the temperatures been lower in the past?
I would check to make sure all the fans are working, and maybe check/clean any dust build up inside the case. Also install realtemp to confirm the results of hwmonitor.

Phenomenologica · 10 Jul 2011 at 12:50

80 and 92mm case fans? Blimey.

That's a very high idle temperature even for the stock cooler. Is the chip overclocked?

hlennie · 10 Jul 2011 at 19:39

Get rid of the stock cooler buy some thing decent

Phenomenologica · 10 Jul 2011 at 19:50

The stock cooler won't cause 60 degree idle temperatures. Something else is going on.

hlennie · 10 Jul 2011 at 19:59

It will if it's not making good contact with the processor. When removed is it showing good contact with the CPU

Suggest u manually set your core voltage

Is that the latest bios for your board?

Phenomenologica · 10 Jul 2011 at 22:03

Good point, have you checked, double checked, and triple checked that all 4 pins are firmly secured? Slipped my mind that several people have had terrible temperatures because they didn't properly engage the clips.

edGfaCTor · 11 Jul 2011 at 07:00

cpu is not overclocked I even disabled turbo mode in cpu-z volt goes no higher then 1.2.

I checked temps in realtemp they are the same as hwmonitor.

I am running latest bios 1003 for my asus board.

I checked all connectors are firmly in with all fans spinning and reseated cooler again idle temps for each core shows 59 57 60 57 also I moved graphics card to the bottom pci-e on the board hoping it would open it up a bit which it dropped the graphics by 4c.

hlennie · 11 Jul 2011 at 16:18

Either your heat sink has machined terribly and needs lapping or u have left the plastic on the bottom of it

I would expect ur CPU to be idling at around 35

edGfaCTor · 12 Jul 2011 at 08:44

hlennie said:
Either your heat sink has machined terribly and needs lapping or u have left the plastic on the bottom of it

I would expect ur CPU to be idling at around 35

In a tower case maybe but remember this is a htpc case.

hlennie · 12 Jul 2011 at 11:14

edGfaCTor said:
In a tower case maybe but remember this is a htpc case.

my bad

I really dont think that case is giving enpugh air flow.

take the top off your case see what temps you get then to rule out it being a problem with your cooler

options are to sell off your current processor and get one of the low voltage sandys a i5 2500T when they come available or just get a better case