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Phenom II X4 920/940 Temps

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Modular

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I'm at idle with the stock cooler and AS5 in between the two and I'm at about 45C. When I game it hits 55-57 pretty regularly. Temps reported using CoreTemp on a Biostar TA790GX 128M board.

I'm curious to see what others are getting as this seems a little high to me. I heard that the standard was to add about 5C on AMD mobos when calculating CPU temp. Does that rule still stand with the Phenom II?

 
My 920 has a Thermalright Ultra120 (the original non-copper with "only" 4 heatpipes) + 1200rpm 120mm fan on it.

*it idles around 30-32C (CNQ ~1ghz)
*it peaks around 55-56C (during prime95 all cores 100% for >30mins & overclocked to 3.36ghz/1.36v)

Since games do not push the cpu as hard as prime, I'm OK with those temperatures

EDIT: wasn't the +5 rule only valid back in the socket A days when cpus didn't have built-in thermal diodes? current phenoms have a diode per core...
 
my idle is 33c and load 56c but it's overclocked and being cooled by a Zalman 9700. The 5c plus rule does not apply to these cpus.

What is the room temp?
 
Thanks for the info on the +5 rule. It's nice to know that I don't have to worry about that anymore.

The room temp is about 65-70F (around 20C). I know that I'll be needing a better cooler for overclocking this thing to any appreciable levels, but I am not too happy with the idle temps that I'm getting either with the stock cooler. I do know that there seems to be good heat transfer from the CPU to the HSF because the HS itself is warm to the touch after gaming for a few minutes.

Is there a way to get the CPU fan to spin at 100% all the time? I tried speedfan but I'm not sure how to adjust the fan speeds in that program. If there is then that might be the best solution for me while I save up for a better cooler.
 
Bump for a new "issue" if you want to call it that.

I was goofing around and noticed that the reported temp in the BIOS is about 10C lower than what CoreTemp 0.99.4 is showing me at idle. Is there some reason that I shouldn't trust CoreTemp? I know that BIOS readings are generally off as well, but I guess I'm trying to understand how my chip could be idling at 45-48C...
 
Originally posted by: Modular
Is there a way to get the CPU fan to spin at 100% all the time? I tried speedfan but I'm not sure how to adjust the fan speeds in that program. If there is then that might be the best solution for me while I save up for a better cooler.
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There's a few ways to do this and it depends on the system.

1). My last after-market cooler had a switch on it with 3 positions: low, high, automatic. I switched it to high so it ran full blast all the time.

2) Your bios probably has a temperature setting in it. For my Asus P5LD2, the system monitor screen allows me to enable or disable automatic fan speed. Disable means 100% all the time.

 
just installed my 920 with stock hsf and tim, it idles around 37C from speedfan, and loads around 50C, i think the stock heatsink is very good, very heavy, lost of fins, copper base and 4 heatpipes, even tim is not bad, very thin layer and seems transferring good too. but the problem is the crappy fan it got paired up with, it's not even 80mm, and only half thick, doesnt push air much and it's loud!! i'm thinking about doing a fan mod on it, but cant think of good idea to screw up a fan on for now
 
940BE at stock, idling at 28-29C (AOD temps). Haven't checked load temps lately, but I doubt it goes much over 50C. I'm using a Sunbeam CCF with AS5. The airflow in my P180 sucks though, I haven't figured out where to put the cables yet.
 
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