Hey,
Ok im at my witsend with this one. Ive done everything in my power to cool this beastie and its still running hot.
I bought a pre-overclocked motherboard bundle (from overclockers, obvioulsy). Gigabyte X58 UD3R + i7 930 OC'd to 4ghz + 6gb RAM but get big heat under load (video encoding, 3d rendering which are 2 reasons i bought this for.)
Cooler is a Corsair H50 Watercooler (single fan as it came, ive not turned it round to blow the other way), but im begining to think this is the issue - I don't think its up to such a big overclock.
I built the rig into an Antec 300 orgininally but recently stripped the whole thing and built up from scratch again into a new Antec 903 v2 (200mm top fan, 120 mm rear fan (corsair radiator is on this mount) 2 x 120 mm front fans (not stock, i switched these for a pair of Vipers) cooling the hard drives (these are cool at an average of 28-30 degrees and stay there under load, while the rest of the rig gets toasty).
I have not mounted a fan on the side panel.
Recently added a GTX 480 GPU which has raised the heat a little, but not the cause as it was BSODing before.
If i go anywhere near Handbrake with OC enabled, i get a BSOD. Set everything back to stock (overclockers stored a bios profile so i can back and forth). I have not altered the bios in anyway except to set the sata ports to AHCI as they were on IDE when i got it.
So there you go, what more can do??
Any help you guys can suggest would be awesome. Thanks.
p.s I used arctic silver on the H50 and theres a BeQuiet 650w PSU in there.
Ok im at my witsend with this one. Ive done everything in my power to cool this beastie and its still running hot.
I bought a pre-overclocked motherboard bundle (from overclockers, obvioulsy). Gigabyte X58 UD3R + i7 930 OC'd to 4ghz + 6gb RAM but get big heat under load (video encoding, 3d rendering which are 2 reasons i bought this for.)
Cooler is a Corsair H50 Watercooler (single fan as it came, ive not turned it round to blow the other way), but im begining to think this is the issue - I don't think its up to such a big overclock.
I built the rig into an Antec 300 orgininally but recently stripped the whole thing and built up from scratch again into a new Antec 903 v2 (200mm top fan, 120 mm rear fan (corsair radiator is on this mount) 2 x 120 mm front fans (not stock, i switched these for a pair of Vipers) cooling the hard drives (these are cool at an average of 28-30 degrees and stay there under load, while the rest of the rig gets toasty).
I have not mounted a fan on the side panel.
Recently added a GTX 480 GPU which has raised the heat a little, but not the cause as it was BSODing before.
If i go anywhere near Handbrake with OC enabled, i get a BSOD. Set everything back to stock (overclockers stored a bios profile so i can back and forth). I have not altered the bios in anyway except to set the sata ports to AHCI as they were on IDE when i got it.
So there you go, what more can do??
Any help you guys can suggest would be awesome. Thanks.
p.s I used arctic silver on the H50 and theres a BeQuiet 650w PSU in there.
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