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Leemond

Leemond

Leemond

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i'm new to the overclocking game and was considering OC'ing my 4200 x2 processor.

i decided to run orthos for half hour to see what my standard temperature was, at idle both cores were between 29 and 33 deg C.

after running orthos core 1 was at between 61-63 deg C
and core 2 was around the low 50's.

why is this. am i right in thinking my cpu is one of the poorer items or is this a cooling issue.

its a mesh pc, 5 months old. intake and exhaust fan, not sure of sizes.
 
I would guess Orthos is using only using one core. Run two copies and set the processor affinity on each Orthos process to separate cores.

Temps are acceptable
 
i was told sp2004 orthos was designed to test both cores.

core 2 seems acceptable under load and core 1 seems to be too hot.

thats what i was trying to say :)
 
Yes my mistake Orthos sp2004 does run 2 threads one for each core. :eek:

The temperature variance between cores under load is pretty extreme, this is what lead me to assume only one core was in use.

If you feel confident I would reseat the CPU cooler, and apply fresh TIM. This is the first thing I would suspect.
 
it would lead me and most others to say you have a bad contact under the ihs on one of the cores.

a pretty common issue with the X2's im afraid.

can only solve it by popping off the ihs

Tom
 
The integrated heat spreader, the piece of aluminium that dissapates the heat from the core/cores over an even surface to make the heatsinks job easier.

Here is a picture of a cpu with the IHS popped off as has been described.




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Google around for guides on how to pop the IHS off, just be very careful as it's pretty easy to get very wrong.
 
And a heatsink that can still work with the IHS-LESS cpu is needed.

For beginners, its not recommended to do this. Just put up with the lower clocks and higher temps
 
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