x2 4400 temps

[Jono8]

Hi.

system= ga k8n sli pro,1gb geil 400mhz ram,8800gtx bfg oc1.

Just installed a sythe infinity and overclocked my x2 4400 to 2.4ghz with 1.5v and it is still running as hot as my stock cooler in orthos (59-60 degrees)

ran orthos for half an hour and ran all through 3dmark 06 (nice 500 marks extra by the way ) all fine. I am just worried about the heat, especially as i want to go to 2.6?

shall i let it go over 60? bearing in mind come june the 22nd and the intel price cuts i will get a new mobo,cpu and ram so im not worried if it will decrease the life expectancy of it. I just don't want it to die completely on me.

Also i would like to know why the scythe hasnt made any difference? thermal paste need to settle perhaps?

 

[Mul]

That's definitely not right, although an X2 Toledo with 1.5V wouldn't run particularly cool either.

I'd try reseating the HSF. Clean both the CPU and HSF base and reapply a pea size dot of thermal paste on the middle of your cpu's heatspreader

Mul

 

[Jono8]

That's definitely not right, although an X2 Toledo with 1.5V wouldn't run particularly cool either.

I'd try reseating the HSF. Clean both the CPU and HSF base and reapply a pea size dot of thermal paste on the middle of your cpu's heatspreader

Mul

Yeh i thought it wasnt great.I put about a grain of rice's worth of thermal paste and left it in the middle and put the hsf on top of it and clamped.Got the 120mm fan blowing on it aswell.

I'll give it another go perhaps. Should i spread the paste around the cpu or just leave the blob and put the heatsink on?

 

[str]

What did you use to measure the temperature?

You shouldn't need anywhere near 1.5v to get 2.4GHz and if that's the motherboard reported CPU temp then the core temps will likely be well above 70c which isn't good at all.

Unless you have exceptional case airflow and cooling you probably wouldn't want to go higher than 1.4v.

If you haven't already got it you should download CoreTemp 0.94 to see what the core temps are (don't get the latest version = 0.95 as it can cause crashes/blue screens on some systems).

Best to post a CPU-Z and CoreTemp screenshot while running the Orthos blend test so we can see.

 

[Jono8]

What did you use to measure the temperature?

You shouldn't need anywhere near 1.5v to get 2.4GHz and if that's the motherboard reported CPU temp then the core temps will likely be well above 70c which isn't good at all.

Unless you have exceptional case airflow and cooling you probably wouldn't want to go higher than 1.4v.

If you haven't already got it you should download CoreTemp 0.94 to see what the core temps are (don't get the latest version = 0.95 as it can cause crashes/blue screens on some systems).

Best to post a CPU-Z and CoreTemp screenshot while running the Orthos blend test so we can see.

used easytune. Board wont post with anything under 1.5v(have to press the delete button overide overclock thing on the gugabyte boards). I'll try reseating the hsf and putting a bit more thermal paste.

 

[str]

What vcore do you need for 2.2GHz (the default speed)? It most likely should be 1.35v.

With Gigabyte boards there are usually lots of hidden settings in the BIOS which you can make visible by pressing CTRL-F1 when at the main BIOS screen.

Perhaps some of those hidden settings need changing for it to be stable at lower vcore like putting the memory on a divider (166) and the HTT multiplier down from 5 to 4?

Also did you buy the CPU brand new or second hand and is it's IHS intact?

 

[Jleo]

I'll try reseating the hsf and putting a bit more thermal paste.

If its an Arctic thermal interface paste you are using less is all best a rice sized grain will spread nicley over the ihs.