stupid question?

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Afternoon... this was the setup i was running last night... given it another quick beasting with prime95 Small FFT... All seems to be stable for the time being... (been running 20 mins now)

Temps are now at 80C...
 
Is that 378x9 or 425x8?

If the 378x9 as posted abve then yup nudge up the juice! :)

Your set-up looks half decent and I'm suprised your cooler is letting the chip get so hot. I think you could do with a little cable tidy session to help maximise your case airflow! :p

it was 378x9... will up the vcore some more :D

yeah, you'd think there's good airflow but as setter says the fans could be upgraded... the standard case fans are pretty poor at shifting air!
 
Morning :)
Upped the Vcore 2 more notches and temps reached 90C
stopped it before it got any higher... is 90 OK? 10 more degrees and it would shut down
I will move the cables tonight but i'm not sure it's going to make a huge difference... perhaps better fans is the way forward...
 
Thanks for the info plec :)
is it worth spending £30 on fans or £50 on the antec 300? (which may need extra fans anyway) I'm also concerned about noise... starting to get quite loud in there!
I know my icute case is pretty budget, might it be worth resetting the heatsink?
will look into those drive bay mounts... will definitely help clear a path :)
 
Thanks plec... sounds like the best plan... will order that :)
what do you reckon for the 2x 120mm fans? are there any particularly good ones worth investing in?
 
Hey... using the OCCT program now... temps so far haven't passed 75C. (although the desk fan is out and the windows are open) :D Will post the results when the 30mins is up...

currently running the vcore at 1.47v under load @ 378x9 so far no crashing :)

will definitely be ordering the 300 tonight/tomorrow... just need to decide on the fans... the akasa apache seems to have good reviews... (they're the only one's i've looked into so far)
 
thanks for the advice. Have flicked through a few reviews/forums and the xilence red wings have generally good reviews but don't seem to push as much air as some competetors which i suppose is the priority. The Noctua obviously has great reviews but i'm not made of money lol!

I have actually found the apache quite a bit cheaper somewhere else so i may look into that...

just getting the results of the OCCT test and will post in a minute.
 
hmmmm.... not quite the flat line vcore you got lol!

temps are lower than with prime95 (i assume that's because it doesn't torch the system to the same extent)!
 
i hope then that it's the PWM overheating... i'll keep an eye on it during the next set of testing...

in the meantime i've tidied the inside of my case

Before

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After

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I've hooked some of the cables out of the way and moved the HDD lower down so it doesn't block any airflow... (this case is really not great for cable management)!

Idle temps are 5C lower already :)

I'll get cracking with a large data set...
 
just ran large data set... here are the results... still a crazy vcore!!

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don't think the temps are much better but i imagine a large data set would increase the temps anyway...
 
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Good work with the case tidy, a 5°C drop (for free) is most welcome! :)

I'm wondering is OCCT showing you your PWM temps? If not then flick into the OCCT options and add the PWM if its not there already. Your board has a uGuru chip which shows all kinda of voltage and temp info so make sure OCCT is graphing that too!

Just added it above

if 3.4GHz (9x378) is passing multiple runs of OCCT then maybe switch it up to 3.4GHz (9x425) and see how you get on! :cool:

do you mean 8x425?
 
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