i7 920 temp

[armoredfist2002]

Would really appreciated a bit of help from someone, I bought some pc parts in november and my pc has been crashing usually when playing games and watching video's in media player, but I will get into that in another thread if need be, firstly I would like to know, what is the temp of the intel i7 920 processor is at idle, half load and full load with standard supplied fan. Not even overclocked,

what temp is the max for this processor, I read it's around 100 celcius

Mine idles at around 38-43 celcius at idle, but I ran OCCT earlier and after 1 - 2 minutes it stopped the test as the processor was reaching around 76 and the program indicated this was too high.

Don't want to end up damaging my cpu


thanks

Colin

 

[armoredfist2002]

100! whilst watching movies.
Is your hs'n'f clogged up with dust?

I think you read the post wrong

cpu is around 70 - 80

max temp of the cpu is 100


no dust anywhere, case is pretty dust free


but something is making the cpu heat up too much, I have 2 120mm fans on the case, motherboard is at a constant 41 celcius once the pc has been on for around 10 mins and doesn't change

 

[armoredfist2002]

I want to get a corsair h50, as I want to overclock to 4ghz sometime in the future, but funds don't allow this at the moment.
Also a new graphics card and a SSD

I don't know if the cpu getting hot is the cause of the pc crashing, it's just something I noticed the other day, and thought it may contribute towards it.


I think I may start a new post, see if any one can help

 

[armoredfist2002]

If your max temp is 76, it's not heat.

Just tried OCCT again

here's the graphs



Core 1

Core 2

Core 3

Core 4

Core 1 89
Core 2 89
Core 3 75
Core 4 91



that's within 60- 90 seconds of running the test

 

[armoredfist2002]

That ain't right yo'. You're going to fry your CPU if you haven't already done significant damage. Are you sure the fan on the heatsink is plugged in? Get yourself a nice Zalman cooler and fast.

If it was as simple as that I wouldn't be asking on here.


It wouldn't be the first time the fan from the psu is blowing hot air onto the cpu, had this on one of my previous pc's

 

[armoredfist2002]

Significant damage? LMAO thats not going to happen in the 70s or even 80s plus the chip is going to shut itself down a long time before that.

Reseat your heatsink mate it might just be that.

Took the heatsink off, scraped off the old paste, put some arctic silver 5 on there.

It's showing a few degrees cooler whilst playing games, and occt takes a while longer before stopping due to the processor being hot.
It worked a little bit, but not enough

will definatly buy a new heatsink, and once it's running cooler will see what happens from there

thanks guys

 

[armoredfist2002]

I have ordered a new cpu fan, a coolermaster hyper 212 plus

hopefully should be with me weds/thurs

May consider looking for a new case with better air flow

I currently have this case
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-183-CM&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=29


But may consider this

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-176-CM&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=29

it's a bit more than I want to spend on a case, but with the psu on the bottom and a few more fans it may be better for cooling

 

[armoredfist2002]

Just an update on this

I bought the cooler master fan, and have installed it, I have also bought a new pc case with more airflow.

The processor and motherboard idle at 40o C and under full load it's around the high 60's, around 65-68.

I have been told this is still too high,

Motherboard bios has been updated, so either there is a problem with the processor or motherboard.

But since I have been monitoring the temps, the pc has not been crashing, so it looks like this may have been my problem fromt he beginning

 

[armoredfist2002]

Just thought I would ask, but could something be interpreting the temperatures wrong.

I have a p6t7 ws supercomputer motherboard, on this motherboard the heatsinks all join together, and on the lower right hand side there is a piece of metal around 2 inches by 4 inches. This gets hot to the touch, and the temp is 40 celcius. but none of the copper pipes on the cpu heatsink are hot, it's very cool to the tough, now I would have though with 60celcius the copper tubes on the heatsink would be pretty hot to touch