I have a new rig I just put together, and I'm getting some very strange readings off of Real Temp.
First, my rig is a XFX 790i Ultra w/q9550 @2.884 ghz (very slight oc, for the ram) with 4gb (2x2gb) of OCZ 2000mhz DDR3 set to 8-8-8-16 2t at only 1.8v and 1.4v spp, @ 1900mhz, XFX Geforce 9800GTX+ Black, WD 300gb 10krpm sata300 hard drive. PC Power & Cooling TC1KW-SR (Pre-OCZ design), vista x64 sp1,
My case is the Xclio 1000, and I have a Zalman 9500 on the cpu, with arctic silver 5 installed per their instructions..
My issue is this...at idle, my core temps show 25 26 35 25. When I noticed this, the first thing I did was check my install on the cooler - took it off, cleaned it with arcticlean, reinstalled it...identical results.
It's stable for 8 passes of memtest 86+, and when I run prime95 under the torture test, it passes all 8 tests, but the temp difference doesn't change much...it goes to 41 39 47 38. I'm not planning on oc'ing the unit more than it is currently, I need this rig to last for as long as possible. (plus I didn't get the treasured E0 stepping, I even sent it back to newegg twice to try and get the newer version, no dice).
I know those are all safe temps, and below normal for many of them, but outside of lapping the processor and the heatsink (something I'm not comfortable with) is there anything I can do to get control of that one core? Or is it a faulty chip?
My CPU voltage is set to auto on the mobo, and I don't want to undervolt the processor.
Thoughts/Comments?
First, my rig is a XFX 790i Ultra w/q9550 @2.884 ghz (very slight oc, for the ram) with 4gb (2x2gb) of OCZ 2000mhz DDR3 set to 8-8-8-16 2t at only 1.8v and 1.4v spp, @ 1900mhz, XFX Geforce 9800GTX+ Black, WD 300gb 10krpm sata300 hard drive. PC Power & Cooling TC1KW-SR (Pre-OCZ design), vista x64 sp1,
My case is the Xclio 1000, and I have a Zalman 9500 on the cpu, with arctic silver 5 installed per their instructions..
My issue is this...at idle, my core temps show 25 26 35 25. When I noticed this, the first thing I did was check my install on the cooler - took it off, cleaned it with arcticlean, reinstalled it...identical results.
It's stable for 8 passes of memtest 86+, and when I run prime95 under the torture test, it passes all 8 tests, but the temp difference doesn't change much...it goes to 41 39 47 38. I'm not planning on oc'ing the unit more than it is currently, I need this rig to last for as long as possible. (plus I didn't get the treasured E0 stepping, I even sent it back to newegg twice to try and get the newer version, no dice).
I know those are all safe temps, and below normal for many of them, but outside of lapping the processor and the heatsink (something I'm not comfortable with) is there anything I can do to get control of that one core? Or is it a faulty chip?
My CPU voltage is set to auto on the mobo, and I don't want to undervolt the processor.
Thoughts/Comments?
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