psu temp

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i purchaced the ultima oc 8800gt system and the system has been quite unstable, i've just discovered the psu seems to be extremely hot, when the system is being used heavily the psu runs at about 95c (hotter than the cpu and gpu), the system comes with the ocz 600w psu

does anyone know if this is normal for this model?
 
this is according to everest, although i've just put my hand around the back of the psu and the air coming out is cool

im trying to identify what the problem is with the system so if i need to send it back it can be as quick as possible as im dependant on the machine for work at the moment

i have a lot of bluescreen issues at the moment, and the errors pointed towards the memory, i ran memtest once and it reported an error but i ran the test a few more times and the error disapeared so not sure what to think about that, but i just decided to give everests stress test a try and noticed the psu readings were really high
 
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ok heres the temps

temps.jpg


and this is the system details, although i have
4gig instead of 2 as listed there

pc2.jpg
 
thanks thats good to know, so i can rule that out as a cause of the problem


@Cob, you mentioned i may be able to tweak the voltage settings to help, could you give some specific details, i don't know enough about overclocking to know what to adjust and what are the safe ranges for each setting, i would really be happy if i could get my system stable so i can continue with my work, this has been horrible timing right in the middle of a project
 
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its 4 sticks,

the voltage settings are

DDR2 voltage 2.200v
1.27v MCH voltage 1.33v
ICH 1.05v voltage 1.12v
ICHIO Voltage 1.55v

so u think the mch option is a better way to go than playing
with the cpu voltage then

d.m - thanks for the reference temperatures
 
what is the negative effect of having the cpu voltage to high, is it gonna put extra stress on the cpu, ie if upping it fixed the problem should i just be happy about it and leave it or should i definatly try other methods
 
yes i will try and knock the settings down and hopefully this will at least allow me to finish my project, really terrible timing for all this to happen

when my system first arrived it was running at stock speeds, i had to manually follow their instructions to overclock so im starting to think the system was never checked for stability when it was built and unfortunatly im only just discovering this when i really need to use it the most, wonderfull timing, but thanks for all the tips anyway, now i just gotta hope its stable at slower speeds :(
 
yea its supposed to be preclocked, it appears the machine must have skipped a couple of stages during the building process, i'll just send it back when i am able and hopefully get a system thats been setup and tested properly
 
but don't i have potentially faulty components, or at least items that aren't able to run to advertised spec

and the motherboard temp is still in question
 
well airflow should be optimial for what i have, theres no addon boards in the machine, cabling is tidy and the case itself should be great for cooling, and since its still quite new there shouldn't be any dust issues
 
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