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Ivy bridge too hot at idle?

Used the OC genie feature of the MSI board to OC my build to 4.2 ghz last night (cannot remember the exact voltage it chose, but it was 1.1 something). After 10 minutes in prime95 I was seeing some cores hit 82c. Seems too hot to leave it OCed. Turning it back down to just 3.9 stock but...
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- Post #13
- May 18, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Ivy bridge too hot at idle?

Thanks for the tips about the BIOS temperatures being off! Installed windows last night, and non-calibrated realtemp was reporting an idle temp high of 41. After 10 minutes of Prime95, was seeing a temp of 71. Did not have time last night to run longer or to calibrate (how important is...
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- Post #10
- May 17, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Ivy bridge too hot at idle?

I'm guessing ~22 at the time of the test. Motherboard reports its temperature / inside case temperature at 27 - 30. I am not sure exactly where this temperature is read from (MSI Z77-GD65 mobo).
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- Post #7
- May 16, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Ivy bridge too hot at idle?

Interesting. How did you measure the real temp? I never knew that, but would that account for what seems to be an extra 20C (idle temp should be around 30C (at least according to some forum postings around the net) or am I misinformed?).
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- Post #5
- May 16, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Ivy bridge too hot at idle?

Finally got around to assembling my 3770k system, and notice the CPU seems to be running too hot while idle (while sitting in the bios). I am seeing temps of ~47c on average, with jumps up to 51c, and this is strictly in the bios (have not installed an OS yet). The temperatures seem...
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- May 16, 2012
- Replies: 14
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[Anandtech] Z77 Reviews are LIVE

The review had a lot of good information (and the addition of POST times was nice to see!), but I think it could maybe benefit from some minor additions / changes (easy to nitpick, I know): 1. The ASUS board uses the Realtek ALC892, compared to the superior 898 in most of the other boards. I...
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- Post #7
- May 8, 2012
- Forum: Motherboards
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System build, advice?

mfenn, interesting comments, I will have to look into what you mention further. To update with what I finally ordered: i7 3770k MSI Z77 GD65 GSkill 32gb RAM Sapphire Radeon 7870 Corsair 550D Quiet ATX Case Seasonic X660 PSU Crucial M4 C400 256gb SSD Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB...
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- Post #5
- May 7, 2012
- Forum: Computer Building
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Downside to too much PSU?

Ok, thanks for all of the advice! I will be getting the X660.
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- Post #8
- May 5, 2012
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Downside to too much PSU?

Thanks! Happy with your X660?
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- Post #3
- May 4, 2012
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Downside to too much PSU?

Is there a downside to over buying and purchasing a PSU with too much wattage? Besides the obvious (price), are there negatives in terms of efficiency and (more importantly) thermal characteristics? The reason I ask is because I am considering buying a Seasonic X560, however, the X660 is on...
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- May 4, 2012
- Replies: 20
- Forum: Power Supplies
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System build, advice?

lehtv, Thanks for the comments and advice. To answer your questions, I do have Windows 7 already. I am currently still running XP home on my current PC (sigh), but I have an unused upgrade version of Windows 7 Ultimate that I should be able to use. The 32gb of RAM is to run some analysis on...
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- Post #3
- May 3, 2012
- Forum: Computer Building
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System build, advice?

I have put together a rough plan for my build, but for most of it I am uncertain about the specific components I have chosen. Any and all advice is appreciated. For some background, I want something quiet that is rock solid stable but that can do serious number crunching as well as occasional...
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- May 3, 2012
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Computer Building

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