Athlon II X4 630 2.8 39C BIOS temp at idle

[VirtualLarry]

Is this bad? I used the stock heatsink that came with it, it reminded me of an intel celeron heatsink, except this is a quad-core. Haven't checked temps under load, I guess I should do that. Built the rig for a friend, and delivered it yesterday. Seems to work fine, and it's virtually impossible to install the AMD heatsink incorrectly.

Oh, the stock VID is like 1.3-something, and the BIOS on AUTO voltage overvolts to 1.425v.

 

[richierich1212]

Sounds about right. What thermal paste?

 

[heyheybooboo]

Would that be a Gigabyte mobo?

It will over-volt like snot on Auto.

Simply changing from Auto to Manual (without changing the stock #s) seems to stop the over-volt on my 785g.

edit: I fergit ...

I've also had success with under-volting and substantially reducing power at the wall.


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[Key West]

Sounds fine by me.

My X3 720 unlocked 4th core + OC'ed to 3.4ghz is:
50 idle 60 load

But with the case open it's 38-40 idle, 48 load. So I determined heatsink works great but case is suffocating. I made a circular cut on the open hole grill + 2 PCI slots opened up.

Now it's 42 idle, 50 load. I'm happy with that.

 

[Phil1977]

Make sure cool and quiet is enabled in bios and power management set correctly.

It should clock down and lower volts when idle.

If not than I would investigate this.

 

[VirtualLarry]

No, it's an MSI 785GTM-E45 board. The only settings are AUTO, which is located around the 1.4v setting, and various manual voltage settings. You use the PgUp and PgDn keys to change the voltage.

 

[Phil1977]

What OS have you got?

Vista/W7 set power management to "balanced"
XP set it to "notebook"

Leave cool and quiet on Auto.

It should work now after a reboot. CPU z should report I think 800 MHz at idle and a significantly lower vcore. These go up under load of course!

Let me know how you go!