Temperature concerns with Phenom 955

Jegethy

Jegethy

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Hey,

I bought this CPU and fitted it today using the stock cooler, and I'm quite concerned about the temperatures. I'm idling at round 40'c on stock speeds which I doubt it normal.

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I plan on OCing the chip to 3.5-3.8Ghz, however I won't touch it on stock cooling. I am using an AM2+ board.

Also, the stock cooler is extremely loud. Can anyone recommend a decent cooler? I don't want something super expensive, but still performs well and is quieter.

How is the Cooler Master Hyper TX3? Is AS5 still the best thermal paste?

Cheers.
 
i myself got mx3 with my bundle and i have to say its better than AS5 just my opinion how much of thermal paste did you use ? to much can cause more heat i think.
the only other thing id say is maybe to remount the cooler to se if it drops the temps abit. good luck...
 
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scubes said:
i myself got mx3 with my bundle and i have to say its better than AS5 just my opinion how much of thermal paste did you use ? to much can cause more heat i think.
the only other thing id say is maybe to remount the cooler to se if it drops the temps abit. good luck...
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The paste I used was the crap little pad of it that was included with the AMD heatsink.
 
I just dug out an old cooler from Akasa (Akasa Revo Thermaldynamic CPU Cooler) that I bought and never used. It doesn't have thermal paste included, so I ordered some Arctic Silver 5 with next day delivery.

This cooler is now discontinued for some reason so I'll report back with new temperatures tomorrow once it's hooked up.
 
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yeah some ppl will go with the pea size amount of thermal paste some might say a line my friend who done my bundle for me done the pea method and i have to say its great..
 
AS5 is still very good stuff. I am using it on the same chip as you but an older (C2) version overclocked to 3.92GHz at 1.52V, cooling delivered by Noctua’s DH14 with Artic Silver 5. I tested Prime95 for 12 hours with a top temp of 52 degrees, idle at 34 degrees. Room temp was about 22 degrees.
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Don't worry haha, I have a 955 and the stock cooler is loud and crappy, mine idles at about 40, but then again I did mount it pretty shoddily with stock thermal paste, getting a new cooler on there will sort the problem. Most people would probably use MX3 over AS5 but you will only see a few degrees difference tbh.
 
I got the same chip today. Unfortunately my cooler master hs won't get here for 3 days so like you I'm stuck with the crappy stock one (they couldn't have fit a smaller fan if they tried) although I scrapped their crappy tim off for some mx-4. I actually ditched AS5 this time around, even though I still have half a tube, simply because you have to be so carful when switching cpus etc (capacitive) and it has to cure. Mx3/4 has a slightly higher thermal conductivity, but the difference is only ~1C, its really about it simply being easier imo. Oh and it's half as dense as as5 meaning you get twice as much for your money. Still, after a couple power cycles it's idling at ~33 with a max load i.e. prime/linx of 57/58.

The txt will be better than the stock hs - anything would - but these http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-029-CM&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395 as the sweet-spot as far as budget goes. You can source them for ~£15 (until ocuk gets more in) and add an akasa viper fan getting surprisingly good, quiet, cooling but perhaps more importantly, they mount east/west. The cooler master fan isn't bad either if cash is tight.

Those temps are quite normal though.

P.s. I nearly destroyed my board trying to force the stock cooler on =D
 
Thanks for the replies guys.

I swapped the cooler to the Akasa Revo today, but much like the reviews say, it's a piece of crap. I reattached the stock cooler with some AS5 and the temperatures are around the same as before, but I assume it will get better once it cures.

I just ordered the Cooler Master Hyper 212 and also a Coolermaster Scout case, so that should keep things nice and cool.
 
Just a quick update. I got my new cooler and case (Zalman Z9 PLUS) yesterday. I also overclocked my CPU to 3.5Ghz and I am running idle at 32'c with max of 49'c under load for 2 hours, so I'm pretty happy with that.
 
Remember that coretemp does not register the correct temps for phenom II chips. You have to use HWmonitor or similar. The true CPU temp will be TMPIN0 or TMPIN1 depending on your motherboard.

Good clocking.
 
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Remember that coretemp does not register the correct temps for phenom II chips. You have to use HWmonitor or similar. The true CPU temp will be TMPIN0 or TMPIN1 depending on your motherboard.

Good clocking.
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Alright, cheers for that.

On mine it shows the CPU temps, which are exactly the same as what coretemp is showing. TMPIN0 is a couple of degress cooler, and TMPIN1 is around 13'c cooler. How can I know which is the correct one? I am more inclined to believe TMPIN0 is correct.

EDIT: I checked in the BIOS. Seems that TMPIN0 is the CPU and TMPIN1 is MoBo. CoreTemp is actually pretty spot-on, only being about 1'c off.
 
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Sounds like TMPIN0 is correct. I guess the best way to check is to start a stress test and see which number shoots up.

You are lucky, I was worried that your real cpu temp would be much higher. My coretemp is consistently about 10*C lower than my actual cpu temp.
 
got mine on a zalman cooler never really hit 40(whilst gaming or using adobe) but havent tested full load yet my graphics card is like 60s yet its old, but will improve once i get a 460 gtx :) Never used the stock cooler though so i couldnt tell you changes between two,
 
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