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CPU temp worries

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ganons

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I have a G3258 CPU and OC'd it 4.2ghz 1.175V and was fine, Idle was at 46 most of the time and would go up to 60's when using Dolphin Emulator and low 70's with Ultra Street Fighter 4.

So I put it back to stock speed (3.2ghz) with default presets and idle is around 43 and it was doing mid 50's when I was doing a simple application form in Firefox.

I'm guessing something is wrong because stock and OC are pretty much the same. Im using the stock cooler and was thinking of getting the CM Evo 212 but I can only use an 80mm cooler :'(. This is the case http://www.quietpc.com/ctc-coolcube?gclid=CJvD3qT2wscCFUGfGwodfl0GPQ

Some advice please
 
I fail to see what you're concerned about. Max temp is 105c, and it will happily run just shy of that for years.
 
I've read others having 35 @ idle. Also how can stock temp with lower 1.088 volts be the same as OC'd 4.2ghz 1.175 volts?
 
To lower your idle temperature, you could turn up your idle fan speed, but then you'd have a more noisy PC with no benefit. You still have 40c+ of headroom in load tempertaures.
 
Yuriman said:
To lower your idle temperature, you could turn up your idle fan speed, but then you'd have a more noisy PC with no benefit. You still have 40c+ of headroom in load tempertaures.
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I've installed Speedfan but cant figure out how to change the fan speed of the cooler
 
ganons said:
I've installed Speedfan but cant figure out how to change the fan speed of the cooler
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You can usually control the fan speed and ramp rate in BIOS.

Yours may be on silent, and you can turn it up to standard or turbo.

Silent will ramp up slowly, standard will ramp up faster, etc.
 
LTC8K6 said:
You can usually control the fan speed and ramp rate in BIOS.

Yours may be on silent, and you can turn it up to standard or turbo.

Silent will ramp up slowly, standard will ramp up faster, etc.
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Yes its very silent. Went into BIOS but couldn't find anywhere to change the fan speed
 
LTC8K6 said:
No, not AI suite. In the BIOS.

It's under the monitor menu in advanced mode, iirc.

http://images.anandtech.com/galleries/3223/ASUS M6I BIOS 40 - Monitor_575px.png
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Thanks I did see a turbo option there but if I were to go manual, should I change any settings here?

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That's how you would adjust it, yes. The way it's set up in your screenshot is, at 20c your CPU fan starts at 40%, and as it climbs toward 70c, it will increase in a linear fashion toward 100%.

However, if I were in your shoes, I would actually make the system quieter considering how cool your chip is running, and how much thermal headroom you still have. I'd probably increase the CPU Upper temperature to maybe 80-85c (so it doesn't get really noisy until your CPU is a bit warmer) and lower the Fan Min. Duty Cycle to 20-30%, so it's much quieter when idle. That, an maybe change the lower temperature to ~30c.

If you want it to be more noisy, adjust in the other directions.
 
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