Recent content by cjlewis3

Thats exactly what I just did.. paste is on correctly, heatsink/fan is seated properly, cpu didn't feel hot to the touch, and there was no hot air blowing. (Removed fan shortly after reporting 91C it should have still been hot.) I cant figure out what's goin on..

Help!!! Something must be wrong! My idle temps are high 40s to mid 50s, but the second I put a load on under STOCK settings my tempts go shooting to 80C UP. I tried the stress test first OC'd to 3Ghz and tempts shot to 100C+ Any ideas??

Thanks for the help so far! When I get back home I'll pump out some of this info and post on to here. Followup question.. you mentioned running the ram at much over 2x the FSB will not do much- so if I was to leave everything at stock settings or bumped it up to say 400 Mhz FSB, 1200 Mhz RAM I...

Hey everyone I'm new here and have found an absolute wealth of information on overclocking and board specific info, but I am a total n00b when it comes to overclocking and I am really looking for some tailored advice for my setup. So I think I'll start with that.. ASUS P5Q PRO motherboard...