oc's i7 930 bundle 100c

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vcore is fine, a little high but nothing to say it will hit 100c, I have 1.33 and only hit 82c in 3 hour prime so we rule out vcore. Ok next you did take the little plastic film off the bottom of the heatsink to keep it safe oin the post?
 
After running it for a few more mins, the cpu temps in Everest are climbing 79c.. yet coretemp and realtemp won't surpass 100c as the tjmax is set to 100c (or so i believe)
 
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BigBruiserAl said:
vcore is fine, a little high but nothing to say it will hit 100c, I have 1.33 and only hit 82c in 3 hour prime so we rule out vcore. Ok next you did take the little plastic film off the bottom of the heatsink to keep it safe oin the post?
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From what I can remember there wasn't any on there, :S

The heatsink was boxed as new.
 
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fluidz said:
From what I can remember there wasn't any on there, :S
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Really thats odd, sometimes there is thin film over the base to protect it from scratching, look look another re fit anyway while your there. Try cleaning the cpu taking it out the socket offer it to the heatsink and make sure there almost flush will rule out seating problems
 
I definitely took off the plastic protector off my heatsink. Perhaps OCUK's quality control is getting lax? If I understand correctly some CPUs overclock better than others, maybe we got an average batch :(
 
Heres some pics of how its set up.

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Just in case it matters, wired the cpu wires underneath the motherboard to connect to the top so that it was out of the way.
 
When i first unpackaged the motherboard i found traces of thermal paste (thick paste similar to what u get on stock graphic card memory modules, but blue in colour) stuck down the sides of the cpu. Not actually on the cpu, but embedded down the sides.. Also there was some on the northbridge.. I cleaned most of it off, but some is impossible to dig out of the gap. I've just applied pressure to the hsf down onto the cpu, to see if there was a lack of contact, but no decrease in temps (i did this with my old s775 mobo and q6600 and it lowered the temp)..

The hsf is pretty hot now, and if i hold my fingers on the metal part of the hsf i can feel its definately very hot, but not so much that you get stung by the heat.

Oh btw, i called overclockers before applying the paste for the first time this afternoon, to be told by the guy on the phone that the paste left is harmless (which didn't register in my mind) ..
 
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Must be a poorly seated cooler, can't see it being faulty sensors as they are individual sensors on there.
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Ok tried reseating again, cleaned everything from the cpu, and tightened everything extra strong and yet im here with 90c+ plus degrees read by realtemp.

any other ideas? Pleeease..
 
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1.328v vcore is a lot of voltage for 4ghz.

Also set the QPI/VTT manually to 1.3v or so, leaving it on Auto could be resulting in 1.4v+ or something daft.

It looks like they've got these bundles coming off a production line now and aren't putting in due care and attention, you'd probably need water to keep it cool at those settings.
 
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just loaded the optmized bios settings.. which reverted the cpu to 2.8 (or so the bios states) .. this is a screenshot 5 mins after a cold boot.

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