Hello, been reading these boards a lot recently. Especially the hot deals section since I was buying a new comp. Anyway heres my Question.
I bought a 1.8A hearing how cool they ran and potential for overclocking (especially the 1.6A), maybe in the future. I used Hardware Monitor Program that came with my Abit motherboard to check on temps just to see and I am getting around 51-52 C at idle times. Seems quite high from what ive read (Maybe its just an unlucky chip that runs hot?). Specially with people saying they get 55 C or so at full load when overclocked (provided they have decent cooling where im just using stock intel HS&F). Also was getting warning for having too low of vcore with 1.43-1.46 with the programs trigger set to go off below 1.55. Vcore is set in bios to 1.5 as default. Also getting a warning here and there about my -5v charge from powersupply hitting -5.48. Curious if maybe my PSU has anything to do with my heat issues.
Anyway heres my system specs
1.8A @ 1.8A
512 megs of Samsung PC-800
Abit TH7II-Raid
Leadtek Ti4400
Santa Cruz Sound Card
Generic Case and Generic 300 watt PSU
Would appreciate any thoughts on the matter. Im content with staying at this CPU speed, I just think with an idle temp like this at stock speeds, I will have no chance of OC'ing in the future.
I bought a 1.8A hearing how cool they ran and potential for overclocking (especially the 1.6A), maybe in the future. I used Hardware Monitor Program that came with my Abit motherboard to check on temps just to see and I am getting around 51-52 C at idle times. Seems quite high from what ive read (Maybe its just an unlucky chip that runs hot?). Specially with people saying they get 55 C or so at full load when overclocked (provided they have decent cooling where im just using stock intel HS&F). Also was getting warning for having too low of vcore with 1.43-1.46 with the programs trigger set to go off below 1.55. Vcore is set in bios to 1.5 as default. Also getting a warning here and there about my -5v charge from powersupply hitting -5.48. Curious if maybe my PSU has anything to do with my heat issues.
Anyway heres my system specs
1.8A @ 1.8A
512 megs of Samsung PC-800
Abit TH7II-Raid
Leadtek Ti4400
Santa Cruz Sound Card
Generic Case and Generic 300 watt PSU
Would appreciate any thoughts on the matter. Im content with staying at this CPU speed, I just think with an idle temp like this at stock speeds, I will have no chance of OC'ing in the future.