Recent content by mynameisham

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    Q9300 running much too hot

    I got pretty lucky somehow. I agree that the pushpin system sucks, but all of the pins are flush with the mobo and I didn't have to remove it to get them in. The first couple tries I didn't take the fan off first, and that made it all but impossible to get it on. Once I realized the fan detached...
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    Q9300 running much too hot

    Water cooling is out of the question at this juncture, but as long as I'm not going to be hurting my hardware I can live with 50c, I guess. I ran a quick prime95 test for 15 minutes and never went over 60c, so that is definitely an improvement over last night's 77c, though I ran that test...
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    Q9300 running much too hot

    Well I found a BIOS update, installed it, and went back in and manually set vcore down to 1.125, but now CPU-Z is saying my core's only at 1.088v, and my temps are still at 50c idle. Any more suggestions?
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    Q9300 running much too hot

    Do you have any suggestions on a decent vcore setting? I'm all new to this, so I don't know if I should drop it by .01 or .1 or where to start. And can I get away with decreasing the voltage and not having to mess with anything else? I'm not familiar with v.droop, but it sounds like something...
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    Q9300 running much too hot

    So even @ 3.4 you're getting the same temperature readings? I'd be pleased as punch just to get mine to 3.0 without meltdown. I suppose the only way to find out is to give it a shot. Your rig is at 3.4Ghz with core voltage at 1.224? My stock voltage is 1.296... could I try and dial this back...
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    Q9300 running much too hot

    The paste was applied per the instructions in the PDF on the Arctic Cooling website... a small amount about the mass of a grain of rice put in a thin line horizontally across the heatspreader over the 2 underlying die. Also, the AC7 was rated at .9 sone, and it sounds a lot louder than even the...
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    Q9300 running much too hot

    I just built my first PC, and I'm getting some really worrying temp readings from RealTemp 2.7. With the stock HSF I was idling at 60c, and at one point it somehow managed to get up to 93c without melting. So I went and got myself the #1 rated HSF on Newegg (Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro), and...