HW monitor reporting high temps, Xeon L5639

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I recently dropped in a Xeon L5639 into my Asrock X58 Xtreme system. HW monitor is reporting all cores in the 50's range. I tried Real Temp and it only seen 3 cores but the temps were in the 30's and high 20's. This would seem correct as it's 32nm, and only sipping 1.0vcore...

I applied the paste properly.

Any thoughts?

 

[YBS1]

I recently dropped in a Xeon L5639 into my Asrock X58 Xtreme system. HW monitor is reporting all cores in the 50's range. I tried Real Temp and it only seen 3 cores but the temps were in the 30's and high 20's. This would seem correct as it's 32nm, and only sipping 1.0vcore...

I applied the paste properly.

Any thoughts?

Just to clarify, are you launching realtemp.exe or realtempGT.exe? You need to be using the realtempGT.exe using a six core cpu.

 

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Well I am now! lol : )

Thanks. Seeing all 6 cores. I'm seeing mid 20's to high teens.

That's more what I thought. This is a great chip. Glad I bought it

Cheers

 

[YBS1]

That's more what I thought. This is a great chip. Glad I bought it

I've actually considered picking one up again after last night, I was able to get this Bloodrage working at 220bclk. Never had much luck above ~212-216 before that. 212 was always ok, above that was hit or miss and above 216 was no go. 220 would be good for right at 4GHz on an L5639 providing I got a decent chip. For the price they are going for it might be a decent buy since I use it for an encoding machine primarily.

Score not the greatest since hyperthreading was off, was just playing around with the bclk.

 

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It's great! And you should do it! That's about how I feel with my EVGA 760 A1 (Rev 1.0) board. Currently the Rev 1.0 board will not accept the chip. It needs a hard mod to make the Xeon work. It's a simple process but doing such sorta puts a stop in my 'step' but now I want to do it. The one I bought is in my main rig, no Overclocking on it. I've read the Asrock X58 Extreme can do 230 BCLK but I don't want any corrupt data with my main machine. ...I've had my EVGA board boot up at 220 BCLK with a 920. If I ever do the hard mod I will then go out and get another chip. As for now though things are fine I guess. I may even pass up the Xeon and just upgrade the platform as it's only a gaming rig.

Thanks for your help!

 

[john3850]

When I first got my Asrock X58 Extreme and 930 I had spare time and spent months on getting a high BCLK which I never got.
With water + 2 fans for MOSFET cooling the highest stable BCLK I had was 202-204 without restarts.
I did read that people using 920s had a higher BCLK on other mb.
If I wanted a 1.31vcore I had to set the bios to 1.41v and vdroop went up with the rise of BCLK.
If I had a decent mb I would play around with a L5639.

Correction the asrock extreme BCLKs will go higher then I believed.
After I dropped the uncore to the minimum I set the 930 multiplier to 19 and a 224
BCLK I ended up with a 4255 MHz.