Advice for high temps

Ninth · Jul 29, 2008

At this point I'm past even asking if they arehigh, during a brief stint at 3.9 GHZ I was hitting 44 idle 59 load temps.

THis is an E8400 at 3.1~ vcore actual idle, 2.9 load, with an apogee GT. THe loop is MCP665 and a MCR 320, and it also passes through my GPU block, but the heat contribution of that is minimal.

I know the block is mounted well, I took it off once to check the adhesive and it was a very flat thin layer, I tightened it when I saw the temps, no change, and honestly I'm clueless. Those are terrible temps for watercooling and I'm out of guesses. (To boot, the CPU is lapped, also tested for flatness.)

jokers_greg · Jul 29, 2008

how old is the setup? Do you have algae growing in the tubing/blocks? You may need to clean em out first.

Nebulous · Jul 29, 2008

Indeed. Might have algae clogging up the rad/blocks. What vcore?

jokers_greg · Jul 29, 2008

Nebulous said:
Indeed. Might have algae clogging up the rad/blocks. What vcore?

i think its at stock vcore, so I doubt thats the problem

wa77ss · Jul 29, 2008

Ninth said:
THis is an E8400 at 3.1~ vcore actual idle, 2.9 load, with an apogee GT. THe loop is MCP665 and a MCR 320, and it also passes through my GPU block, but the heat contribution of that is minimal.

That vcore sounds a little high. Are you sure thats right?

What fans do you have running on that radiator? And also which radiator is it?

jokers_greg · Jul 29, 2008

wa77ss said:
That vcore sounds a little high. Are you sure thats right?

What fans do you have running on that radiator? And also which radiator is it?

lol i didnt even read that right either. i thouhgt his E8400 was at 3.1ghz. so "actual" vcore meant stock vcore lol.

Nebulous · Jul 29, 2008

jokers_greg said:
lol i didnt even read that right either. i thouhgt his E8400 was at 3.1ghz. so "actual" vcore meant stock vcore lol.

3.1vcore? Nahhh that can't be right

I'm reading " ~ vcore actual idle" which I'm thinking is stock? It's confusing :shrug:

jokers_greg · Jul 29, 2008

yeah there's no way its at 3.1v

wa77ss · Jul 29, 2008

Ya I'm sorry. I guess actual is suppose to portray stock (didn't think of it that way), but we still need a number. Actual is no definite number, because stock is different for almost every chip.

Nebulous · Jul 29, 2008

wa77ss said:
Ya I'm sorry. I guess actual is suppose to portray stock (didn't think of it that way), but we still need a number. Actual is no definite number, because stock is different for almost every chip.

I'll have to cuncur. Every chip has it's own "Default/Stock" vcore as assigned by the board. We do need an actual number for this particular chip.

Ninth · Jul 29, 2008

As for the system, except for the cpu block, it's basically new, as of like, a week ago. and I have 3 yl med speeds on the rad.

Edit: Wow, I misinterpreted what I said too. Ignore all the above numbers, I must have been on crack when I wrote that post.

stock for the chip: 1.28
What I had it running at in bios: 1.3375
CPUz reported idle voltage: 1.31
CPUz load voltage: 1.29

Conumdrum · Jul 29, 2008

Ninth. Thats what's so nice about a sig. We can look like quick. Spend time figuring out an easy to read sig, it helps.

Ninth · Jul 29, 2008

Doesn't really contribue to helping my problem, but good point...

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