Temps HIGHER with Arctic Feezer Pro 7

[Dolorous Dave]

I've taken off and put it back on like 6 times, applied Arctic Silver 5 each time and it STILL runs almost 8 degrees hotter at load than the stock fan when my E6400 is at 3GHz.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: Dolorous Dave
I've taken off and put it back on like 6 times, applied Arctic Silver 5 each time and it STILL runs almost 8 degrees hotter at load than the stock fan when my E6400 is at 3GHz.

IMO you have several choices...
Sounds as if the base of your heatsink or your CPU are not making very good contact. As in one of them is not totally flat!
In which case you using a flat edge check to see if thats the case!
If that is the case you could lap one of both!
Galvanizedyankee is the man when it comes to lapping. So I would contact him.

Or if you don`t want to lap them you have to consider RMA.....as in returning iether both or the one that does not appear to be flat!

Good Luck!!

 

[Dolorous Dave]

Yeah, so everything appears to be level. It's still running at 63C on one core and 59C on the other core @ 3GHz. I'm about to flip out--been working on this for two days. My voltage is stock, so that shouldn't be affecting it.

 

[SparkyJJO]

could also be the freezer has a bad heatpipe maybe

 

[Dolorous Dave]

I reapplied the AS5 for the 10th time just now and it's finally idling in the low 40s @ 3.2GHz on stock voltage. Maybe I should just leave it for a few days and see what happens.

 

[Dolorous Dave]

Hrm, I'm thinking it might be airflow in my case. When I take the case door off the temp drops to low to mid-30s. Also, even though I've got CPU set to stock voltage in the BIOS, Everest is telling me the Core is running at 1.14V, which I thought was LOWER than stock. I wonder why that is...

 

[Dolorous Dave]

Well, it seems like no matter what I do, I can't get it to idle below 43C with the case closed. I guess I'll give it a week or so to burn in and see what happens.

 

[thilanliyan]

Be happy you're getting that with the case closed. I get 52C idle with the case closed and about 46C idle and 57C load with the case OPEN with a Thermalright Ultra 120 with dual 120mm fans and the P180 case, which is decent for airflow. The voltage is just slightly above stock and my temps. still suck.

PS.I'm measuring using CoreTemp by the way....which program are you using?

 

[Dolorous Dave]

Coretemp, TAT and Everest are all giving me temps within 2C of each other. TAT registers the highest.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

man my freezer7pro was a big pain too, some times it idles 30c stock sometimes 40c stock. this is of course after leaving it off for 24 hours at a time, i dont get it, i used as5 but IMO lga775 heatsinks are a pain to put in

 

[Dolorous Dave]

Agreed, I don't like the pushpins at all. And now I'm failing Orthos at the 2-hour mark with no idea what to change to make it more stable. I don't want to increase the core voltage simply because I've heard that wears out the hardware faster.

 

[Dolorous Dave]

Ok, here's an interesting change. I moved my new 120MM fan from the front to the back of the case, replacing my old 120MM fan, and now the temps are idling at 38C in TAT. Is it possible my old Antec 120MM wasn't pulling enough air out of the back of the case?

Still failing Orthos at 2 hours-ish, though. Not sure what to do about that one. CPU voltage is at stock (Everest showing 1.14-1.22V), RAM is bumped up to 1.9V per spec as the motherboard natively runs it at 1.8V.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

my cpu is is set to 1.375 my tat reads 70c on 1 core and 66c on the other, way to hot for me but when i check in bios slightly after running super pi my temps arent nearly that high. is there a way tat could be reporting temps wrong?

 

[F1N3ST]

Use CoreTemp, its what I use and seems to be reliable.

 

[Dolorous Dave]

RMAing this board and processor. The board came with a bent CPU pin so I'm thinking it could be throwing everything off.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

Originally posted by: Dolorous Dave
RMAing this board and processor. The board came with a bent CPU pin so I'm thinking it could be throwing everything off.

damn bummer dude, makes me wonder if i should check to see if mine are bent

 

[Dolorous Dave]

This was a pretty obvious bend, as in the pin was completely bent backwards and I had to go in with tweezers to pull it back into semi-alignment. I don't know what effect that can have on the CPU but I wasn't pleased.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

i dont blame you i wouldnt be either