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RMA 7400?

Soldato
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Got a E7400 with a P5Q PRO TURBO today my 1st intel build ever and....im not having a good one, i wonder if this is how fanboys are created....anyway both temp sensors are suck 1 on 40c and the other at 37c. Motherbored reports 27c idle after an hour at room temp. The asus probe 2 software after running prime at stock setting only speedstep off is at 40-42c load should i trust it to go for a decent overclock or just get my money back as got online?
 
Don't expect to be given a better chip. You might be just as unlucky next time anyway. Generally speaking if there is nothing wrong with the item, you won't be able to get a replacement. A refund is something else, but since it's been opened and used you will have to check the companies T&C.
 
Getting my money back is not a problem, no e seller is above the law dispite what they chose to put in their T&C, I work with DSR regulations but anyway that parts no teh problem, cant even get this thing to 3.2 without locking up and its VID is 1.285 :mad:, fear it could be user error though as i have no idea with this p5q
 
Forget about it. It's only stuck until they exceed the temp that they are stuck at. My E8500 and E5200 both have stuck sensors but they both move once well loaded. Incidently, my motherboard monitoring software, DFI Smart Guardian (E8500) and Gigabyte Easy Tune 5 (E5200) seem to read the temps correctly. It's Core Temp/Real Temp that can't read them.

As already said, don't expect anything better back. It would seem that there are a hell of a lot of 45nm cpu's with stuck sensors. It does'nt affect performance so i would'nt even bother. Most people would have no idea of what temp their cpu was at idle or load anyway.
 
Cheers peeps, has given me a bit of confidence using this only got this E7400 untill Gulftown 32nm are out.
Got my E7400 to 3.2 with Asus probe2 reading 49c on prime 95 vcore still on auto would be a safe bet to assume 3.5 out of her with vcore tweaked you think?
 
Cheers peeps, has given me a bit of confidence using this only got this E7400 untill Gulftown 32nm are out.
Got my E7400 to 3.2 with Asus probe2 reading 49c on prime 95 vcore still on auto would be a safe bet to assume 3.5 out of her with vcore tweaked you think?

You have quite a bit of headroom left yet.
 
Yeah thanks mate. sitting at 3.8Ghz vcore 1.36 max orthos temp 53c, me thinks i could push 4ghz stable maybe, im correct saying that intel ships E7400 at max vcore of 1.36 but the data sheet says 1.4 is max?
My 1st intel build 24hrs hrs was cursing it now i may be a intel fanboy lol:D
 
4ghz should be do-able. 45nm cpu's should not exceed 1.45v vcore. Ideally never go with more than 1.4v. I killed my first E8500 with 1.52v. :(
 
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