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iS 54C ON A 6300 A LITTLE TOO HOT ?
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Depending on your cooling, you may want to check the new dual core AS5 instructions, assuming you have applied your own thermal paste.
Im using some coolermaster paste its white so not that great my 120 is on half way as is my front 120 on my case i could up them but i want a balance of sound over clock speed my volts are 1.32 the 120,s on full whack annoy me after 5 minutes. in easy tune 5 my temp is 30c in core temp its 40/44 idle.
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I'd have a look at that Arctic Silver page then. Even if you are not using their paste it may be a good idea to reapply using their method. "IF" your cores are equally loaded then there should not be a 6c temp difference IMO.
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Yellowbeard said:
What would you say is the "normal" difference between the two cores?
At full load one of my cores is usually 51C and the other is 48C. Is this OK you think?
3 deg is ok. Ideally you want the cores to be the same temp/within a degree or so of each other. You're not far off that at all.
You may find re-seating the sink helps but wouldn't worry too much.
To apply paste, make sure both the sink and CPU are cleaned (isoproply alc does a good job) apply a few small blobs onto the cpu/ihs. Stick your finger in a bit of plastic bag and work the paste all over the sink. You only need a thin layer so try and remove any excess if you can. With the stuff left on the bag, give it a really quick wipe over the base of the sink, just a whip on and whip off affair.
Install sink and off you go.
Arctic recommend you stick a blob of paste in the center of the CPU when applying AS5. Find this can be a bit hit and miss so I usually follow the above bag method to spread it out. Work's like a charm.
You may find re-seating the sink helps but wouldn't worry too much.
To apply paste, make sure both the sink and CPU are cleaned (isoproply alc does a good job) apply a few small blobs onto the cpu/ihs. Stick your finger in a bit of plastic bag and work the paste all over the sink. You only need a thin layer so try and remove any excess if you can. With the stuff left on the bag, give it a really quick wipe over the base of the sink, just a whip on and whip off affair.
Install sink and off you go.
Arctic recommend you stick a blob of paste in the center of the CPU when applying AS5. Find this can be a bit hit and miss so I usually follow the above bag method to spread it out. Work's like a charm.
I took it upto 2.8 temps are still 53 top line 48/52 49/53 in easy tempy 5 its 40c interesting how increasing the volts slightly and going up 140 mhz did not increase temps at all. Im back on default volts and its stable at 2.8 at 53c load so thats what its staying at, im sure this chip will go over 3 gigs, but its fast enough for me for a £110 chip you cant go wrong really.
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Ok I ran 2 instances of sp2004 and hit 60c with a 6c differnce in cores, after one of you guys said diff should be 2 or 3 c difference i decided to reseat the hsf i found i could rock the hsf across the intel heatspreader it isnt hitting anything else and my hsf is flat so the heat spreader must be out of shape anyway i noticed there was more paste around the outside of the spreader and none in the middle considering i used one dot in the middle to spead it i came to the conclusion i needed more paste in the center redone the test with both cores and temps are 51 53, so thanks for the advise guys.