Hi, I recently had to upgrade my system to core i7 because my XFX 780i board died and I didn't fancy getting a non SLI board (as the site I got the board from originally no longer stocks any motherboards with nvidia chipsets, nor do I think they make them any more) so I upgraded to an Asus P6T (not the 16x 16x 8x of the 780i but I doubt I'll ever make it to three graphics cards on my budget anyway.)
On my previous board I was running an intel core2duo with a cheap aftermarket cooler (as I brought the CPU as an OEM product) which kept the CPU below 55 Celsius even after hours of folding @ Home (SMP client obviously) which for anyone who doesn't know [what it is], keeps both cores at 100% while it does the work unit.
I was prepared for my core i7 to run hotter than the core2duo as I had read on various places around the web that the core i7 runs hotter than core2quads. Idle temps are around 45 - 50 degrees Celsius, which I thought was high as that is virtually the same as my old CPU under load, but didn't think much of it until I began folding and the temperature sky rocketed to 85 C ! This is probably the fifth CPU I've ever installed (2 my own, 3 for other people) and I've never had a desktop CPU run so hot (have had about 80 C on my XPS laptop) and it concerned me because it was running hotter than the graphics card (a nvidia 8800GTX) which was 82 C while folding.
I of course began troubleshooting, did I botch up the installation of the heatsink somehow etc etc. The heatsink (stock intel btw) was firmly in place, I never touched the TIM that came with it, I never touched the surface of the CPU when installing it. I assumed that maybe the TIM needed some kind of "break-in" period which I'd read about with thermal solutions such as the Arctic silver 5 (which I do own some of, just didn't think it worth using on a stock cooler) so I left it running (folding) overnight and also left RealTemp to monitor the temperatures (before I was taking readings from Asus PC Probe - there is probably a 3 - 5 degree difference) and next morning, at some point in the night (I'm assuming after my air conditioning went off) it had peaked at 95 degrees Celsius. I know the stock intel cooler is known to be bad, but seriously...?
I contacted intel via the online live chat support system and asked what the safe running temperatures are, the response was " As long as the processor operates below 70C, there will be no problems at all." before telling me all the troubleshooting steps when I told the agent/support person about my temperatures.
Should I try reseating the heatsink, maybe using my Arctic Silver 5 compound? Or should I just try and RMA the processor?
I don't know if it's of any importance but the batch number is #3001B550
Thanks for any help [on my first post!]
On my previous board I was running an intel core2duo with a cheap aftermarket cooler (as I brought the CPU as an OEM product) which kept the CPU below 55 Celsius even after hours of folding @ Home (SMP client obviously) which for anyone who doesn't know [what it is], keeps both cores at 100% while it does the work unit.
I was prepared for my core i7 to run hotter than the core2duo as I had read on various places around the web that the core i7 runs hotter than core2quads. Idle temps are around 45 - 50 degrees Celsius, which I thought was high as that is virtually the same as my old CPU under load, but didn't think much of it until I began folding and the temperature sky rocketed to 85 C ! This is probably the fifth CPU I've ever installed (2 my own, 3 for other people) and I've never had a desktop CPU run so hot (have had about 80 C on my XPS laptop) and it concerned me because it was running hotter than the graphics card (a nvidia 8800GTX) which was 82 C while folding.
I of course began troubleshooting, did I botch up the installation of the heatsink somehow etc etc. The heatsink (stock intel btw) was firmly in place, I never touched the TIM that came with it, I never touched the surface of the CPU when installing it. I assumed that maybe the TIM needed some kind of "break-in" period which I'd read about with thermal solutions such as the Arctic silver 5 (which I do own some of, just didn't think it worth using on a stock cooler) so I left it running (folding) overnight and also left RealTemp to monitor the temperatures (before I was taking readings from Asus PC Probe - there is probably a 3 - 5 degree difference) and next morning, at some point in the night (I'm assuming after my air conditioning went off) it had peaked at 95 degrees Celsius. I know the stock intel cooler is known to be bad, but seriously...?
I contacted intel via the online live chat support system and asked what the safe running temperatures are, the response was " As long as the processor operates below 70C, there will be no problems at all." before telling me all the troubleshooting steps when I told the agent/support person about my temperatures.
Should I try reseating the heatsink, maybe using my Arctic Silver 5 compound? Or should I just try and RMA the processor?
I don't know if it's of any importance but the batch number is #3001B550
Thanks for any help [on my first post!]