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i7 overheating

Matt4469

Matt4469

Matt4469

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Hey guys i bought and then built a full system from OC the other day.
the specs are as follows;

Intel core i7 do stepping with stock cooler
OCZ gold 6gb of ddr3 ram (1600)
Antec 902 gaming case
corsair 850w powersupply
radeon HD5870 1gb

the first time i booted it up with only the paste that is pre applied to the heatsink of the stock cooler i had temps that started at 85 and climbed rapidy untill i was around the 100 mark at which point i shut down (thats just sitting in bios )

i then removed the heatsink and wiped away the standard thermal paste and added my own. it now runs at 60 ish degrees idle. but when i try and put it under load the temprature climbs rapidly. i tried running prime 95 and within 2-3 secs i was at the hundred mark and had to end the test (temp readings from both coretemp and realtemp) and this is AFTER ive disabled the turbo boost technology and the hyperthreading in bios

any ideas guys?

thanks in advanced for your help:)
 
Give the shop a ring would be my first thought. They built it.

Pushpins can be a byotch to fit properly though. Make sure they are properly fastened.
 
hey thanks for fast replies.

erm i have it set in bios so the cpu is ramped up and down depending on how much processing power you need at the time. also the voltages are set to auto. at the moment (doing pretty much nothing) the bus speed is 134.9 and the core voltage is 0.864v (core speed is only on 1.6ghz).

My case is the Antec 902.
and my mother bored which i forgot to mention in my original post is the gigabite ud5

thanks again:)
 
That sounds like stock settings to me.

Like the others have said, check the pushpins on the stock cooler - they are such stupid things, they can look connected when they really are not. If you look at the motherboard from the underside, you will be able to see whether all 4 are properly connected.

Personally, I would bite the bullet and get an aftermarket cooler like this. It will definitely keep things cool at stock speeds and allow you to overclock all the way up to 4GHz. It also uses a backplate, which makes mounting less annoying (though slightly more time consuming).
 
ok thanks for your help. i will try the push pins again see if they will go in anymore. i will upgrade the cooler eventually but id think at stock speeds it should be sufficient even with turbo boost turned on under full load.
 
fan spinning ? afaik stock fan can't be wrong way round. if you've got an ir gun you could take the temp of the hs to see what sort of contact it's making or safely touch it - it should be warm.

can you actually see cpu voltage in bios or just 'auto' - presumed it was an asus earier as they love putting hte volts through on auto OC settings. If not what does cpu-z say volts are on full load?

If all good - volts / tim / push pins / fan then maybe you've got a borked temp sensor in the cpu or borked chip full stop or borked mobo ramming the volts through. Where are you? Anyone close who could run your chip in their mobo?
 
Just for the record, if you do go for an after market, +1 for the fenrir, great cooler, fits in a 902 also, but you may have to cut the corner from the side case fan like I did lol, it's a big cooler.

I can only concur with the rest of the forum advice, check the heatsink and cooler placed properly, also set up an rma, just in case it is a borked chip.
 
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