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Old 02-07-10, 12:21 PM Thread Starter   #1
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AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 heating issue


I have about a average 15 degree temperature difference between my two cores. Not sure whats going on, tried re seating my Zalman fan many times. It used to be within 4-5 degrees temperature difference.

Any suggestions before it burns out?

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Old 02-08-10, 04:36 AM   #2
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There are a couple of things that could be going on.

If your sink is the spring-loaded snap-on type then it could just be wearing out. Only way I know to fix that is replace the sink or add something like a toothpick under the spring to load it more.

It's possible, though very rare, that the IHS is getting a little loose. I've only heard of this happening ONCE so I seriously doubt that's the problem but you never know. Only fix for that is to remove the IHS - which also requires modifications elsewhere ...
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I took off the IHS on my old Athlon 64.
Dropped the temps a bit (1-2°C). But that was when I had water cooling and didn't need to worry about losing contact with a snap on heatsink.
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Old 02-08-10, 01:20 PM   #4
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I would check the spring, too. I had to do this on my Artic Freezer Pro. Wasn't putting enough pressure on the CPU to transfer enough heat, so my temps got REALLY high because of that.

I bent the thingy that hooks to the mobo so it will cause more pressure and temps got back to normal.

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Old 02-08-10, 04:25 PM   #5
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wow i thought the 10C difference at load was bad on my windsor. my guess is the IHS is off.

i imagine when you reseated multiple tims you turn the heat sink arround and it still did it, my 720be showed really close core temps when i had it running tri core while my windsor wal always atleast 5c off per core and i am still using the same heatsink and stuff.

not that unherd of

are you running it underclocked by 1000Mhz so its not overheating on one core?
heres the specs by the way:
http://products.amd.com/en-us/Deskto...2=True&f13=EOL

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I can not remember if i have a spring on my latch for the heatsink. It is pretty hard getting it on. It still has a very tight connection and does not rock back and forth unless moving the whole motherboard. It can only shift in a cirlce ever so slighty.

Maybe i need to let this one burn out and upgrade to the new intels

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You can send it to me - I'll de-lid it and use it ...
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Old 02-14-10, 09:43 AM   #8
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my Opteron 165 @ 2.8 has always had a 5-9c diff in cores, and i have never been able to correct that. lapped that sucker 10 times over the years i bet ... but 20c diff? false reading maybe ?

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