- May 6, 2012
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Well, I -finally- got hold of a good 2133MHz kit for my 6800K powered HTPC. After poking around a bit in the BIOS, the 70mm fan on the stock cooler went into overdrive, and checking I was quite shocked to see temps approaching 75C at idle. This without any changes beside the RAM...
(There is one additional 80mm fan in the case to remove heat from the VRM area, the case is a Silverstone ML03)
I did get into windows all right to run some tests. Idle hovered around 60C inside windows. Likely due to cool'n'quiet. I decided to run some standard stability tests (prime95 etc.), but I did not have the nerve to observe full load temperatures. I shut down the system manually when the core temp reached 106C. I didn't even get a screen-shot of that. All the time the small fan screeched like a banshee, running around 4500RPM. After returning to stock DDR3-1600 9-9-9-27 everything was just fine again, and the system functioned just a it always has. I sure hope nothing was damaged.
The morale of the story is if you plan to run 2133MHz RAM and higher with a 100W APU, the stock cooler is likely borderline inadequate, at least in smaller cases. Or else my 6800K is a fluke.
Has anyone out there experienced something similar...?
(There is one additional 80mm fan in the case to remove heat from the VRM area, the case is a Silverstone ML03)
I did get into windows all right to run some tests. Idle hovered around 60C inside windows. Likely due to cool'n'quiet. I decided to run some standard stability tests (prime95 etc.), but I did not have the nerve to observe full load temperatures. I shut down the system manually when the core temp reached 106C. I didn't even get a screen-shot of that. All the time the small fan screeched like a banshee, running around 4500RPM. After returning to stock DDR3-1600 9-9-9-27 everything was just fine again, and the system functioned just a it always has. I sure hope nothing was damaged.
The morale of the story is if you plan to run 2133MHz RAM and higher with a 100W APU, the stock cooler is likely borderline inadequate, at least in smaller cases. Or else my 6800K is a fluke.
Has anyone out there experienced something similar...?