A64 Venice E3 stepping running ...uh, hot?

[rei]

I've heard rumours that the E3 stepping runs way too, "not dropping voltage" and having memory controller problems. Is there any truth to this? I just picked up an E3 stepping Venice core s939 3500+ and it runs 50-60C idle. This is using latest 3.8 bios on my MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard.

With the 3000+ s939 Winchester core I just plucked out, it ran at 30-40C idle with 3.3 bios.

This is a little disturbing since I had read that the Venice ran cooler and used less power.

Any truth to these rumours?

 

[Bona Fide]

That's intereting...make sure your heatsink is making proper contact with the CPU. The Venice cores DO run cooler and are more efficient.

 

[rei]

it could be my mobo misreporting, but i am trying to see what other people's venices cores have been running at.

 

[Topweasel]

Did reapply thermal grease, or did you use what was already on he heat sink? Did you apply to much? Are you sure you placed the HSF on correctly?

 

[nealh]

my 3200 venice at 2750 with 1.57v(1.59v in the bios) with XP90/AS5 runs at idle of 35C in winxp..load hits 49/50C..runs a litle cooler than my winny???

This is on DFI SLI-DR...you really can not compare temps between mobo and systems..too many variable...ambient temp, components..etc

 

[rei]

might be just the msi board + bios + chip. i did reapply the grease, but am waiting on an arctic cooling freezer 64 in the mail. currently using an arctic cooling silencer 64 ultra that was doing 30-40c on the 3000, so it seems to be a combination of the mobo/bios/crappy-new-blue-grease i tried. back to good ol as5 then i think.

 

[NINaudio]

my venice runs cooler with more vcore and a higher oc than my winnie ever did.

 

[Matt2]

3000+ Venice E3 stepping w/XP-90C Panaflo H1B here.

With processor at 2.6GHZ 1.47v (1.49v in BIOS)

idle: 32*C
load: 45*C

Your CPU is fine. This is the first I have heard of temp problems with Venice.