Originally posted by: greg20
Originally posted by: phile
Originally posted by: greg20
Right now I'm running the Orthos stress test, 29 minutes into it and everything seems ok. CoreTemp is reporting each core at 79C though (stock cooling, plastic removed, north/south bridge not reseated with AS5 yet (waiting a bit on that to see how the board is on its own)).
I'll probably end up with an aftermarket HSF as well.
Your core temps are very high for stock speeds and voltages. You may want to check your HSF to make sure that it's making good contact with the CPU heatspreader. Many people have needed a few attempts to get the stock cooler properly mounted. An aftermarket cooler is definitely the way to go, since you plan to overclock. With my current setup (see my rig) my load core temps, when running Orthos Small FFTs, never exceed 60C.
-phil
Well, I tried what you suggested, and I've dropped about 10 deg. C overall since I last posted. I was running idle in the low 50s and maxing out at 79-80 during Orthos. Now I idle in the mid-40s and Orthos seems to be maxing out at 69-70.
Still not ideal, but it's an improvement. Specifically what I did was reseat the processor, turn a fan around, and disable Qfan so my fans are always at 100% now. I suspect that had the biggest difference out of the 3 changes.
The stock HSF thermal compound seemed to be pretty "spotty" between the HSF and the heat spreader when I removed it. I'm not sure how else to describe it, beside the fact that I know that too much isn't good either, but it didn't really seem to have full coverage across the heat spreader. I left that as is and reseated it, making sure that each of the 4 corners clicked into place.
I'm using a new Lian-Li PC-60BPLUSII case. There's one 120 mm fan at the front drawing air in, one 80 mm at the rear drawing air out, one 80 mm on the top ('blowhole') drawing air out, and a 120 mm on the side drawing air in. That one had been blowing air out, so I turned it around.
The 120 mm front intake air does pass over my dual Seagate 7200.10 Barracuda 250 MB drives in RAID 0. Also, my PSU is a 700W OCZ and doesn't seem to be running excessively warm.
Ambient room temp is warm and it is about 76 deg F.
I do have AS5 from my old PC, from the Zalman 7000 I used on that one. What's an appropriate way to remove the Conroe's stock HSF compound and apply the AS5 correctly? Anything else I should look at short of an aftermarket cooler?
I'm not overclocking anything right now, it's all stock.
Also, my new memory is on its way.
Thanks.