Hello,
I have the following set :
Q9450
P5E3 Pro
2x2GB DDR3 1333 CL9 Goodram
Plextor SSD 128GB + Seagate 250GB M5Pro SATA
PSU Corsair HX520
Palit Sonic 1GB GTX560ti
Win7 Pro
Due to the work and the fact of having a small child I do not play games much, but when I had some time for myself my stuff mentioned above allowed me to play interesting games for me in more or less high settings. But reading the comments about X48 chipset I was tempted to have some fun with OC . I would like to add that this is my first OC .
After reading a million online guides about overclocking " for Dummies " I started releasing my Q9450 @ 3200MHz. The CPU @ 3,2GHz , RAM @ 1333MHz 1.5V. This is not complicated to achieve such a result - only changing the FSB to 400 - the rest on Auto and it worked. But being green I tried to do it on box cooling , so the CPU temperature reached to 80 C degrees in the stress - and this interrupted me OCCT tests .
I decided to buy some better cooling. I decided to budgetary SiletiumPC Fera2 cooling as I have read good opinions about it.
And here , on the one hand, the problem is solved , because my temperature in stress after OC oscillate around 70 degrees, and without OC arround 50 degrees. In Idle I have a 35 - 37 degs. But there is a problem with tempreature of cores. After installation of the new cooling I have noticed that the cores heat unevenly . # 0 and # 1 have correct tempearture at the start - the 35-37 degrees and then go up, while # 2 and # 3 are starting with 51 degrees. Then, the temperature increases in stress analogously to the # 0 and # 1 , but after going back to Idle - the first two cores cools to the starting temperature , while the latter two are at 51 degrees and do not descend below . Earlier on the box cooling everything was evenly on 4 cores .
I would add that I read the temperature using three different programs - HwInfo64 , RealTemp and said OCCT and everywhere the same. I generate load using OCCT or Prime.
Before I decided to write here I have read the various forums and found three possible causes:
Suggestion 1 a lot of people have written that the core # 0 is generally warmer than the others, because often " takes more work " than others - this situation does not concern me - for me # 0 is just one of the cooler ones
Suggestion 2 I applied unevenly paste or badly installed cooling. I took that to heart - I'm fresh , so I decided that this probably is the cause - I removed the cooling - carefully cleaned paste (by the way - I use this attached to cooler) - I put it all over again trying to evenly distribute . Tightened the back heatsink ensuring that both sides were tight and unfortunately nothing has changed - again # 2 and # 3 started with 51 degrees.
Suggestion 3 I've seen reviews that temperature sensors on the CPU can be problem as they can work inproperly. This option is most worrying for me . Unfortunately I am unable to verify it without your help .
And here 's my request - after reading what I have wrote above (BTW sorry for my english - it is not my mother language) are you able to suggest what is wrong or what I'm doing wrong? I would add that I do not care for extreme OC - I'd like to set the CPU to 3.2 or 3.3 MHz as I can reach it without tunning the memory. I do not know how these Goodram sticks are capable for OC , so I prefer to let them around the nominal settings . For more "extreme" memory now I do not have the budget right now.
Currently, the CPU goes stable @ 3200 and no overheating (unless around 70st in the stress is too much then please let me know, but 51 degrees on two cores at Idle worries me a lot.
Is there any possibility of verifying whether it is actually a problem with the sensors ? And if so, can I somehow fix it? And if not sensors then what is it? Is there a possibility that I could somehow physically damage these sensors while installing new cooling ? Because as I mentioned earlier while doing the first steps on the box cooling all cores had more or less the same temp.
I will be grateful for hints.
I have the following set :
Q9450
P5E3 Pro
2x2GB DDR3 1333 CL9 Goodram
Plextor SSD 128GB + Seagate 250GB M5Pro SATA
PSU Corsair HX520
Palit Sonic 1GB GTX560ti
Win7 Pro
Due to the work and the fact of having a small child I do not play games much, but when I had some time for myself my stuff mentioned above allowed me to play interesting games for me in more or less high settings. But reading the comments about X48 chipset I was tempted to have some fun with OC . I would like to add that this is my first OC .
After reading a million online guides about overclocking " for Dummies " I started releasing my Q9450 @ 3200MHz. The CPU @ 3,2GHz , RAM @ 1333MHz 1.5V. This is not complicated to achieve such a result - only changing the FSB to 400 - the rest on Auto and it worked. But being green I tried to do it on box cooling , so the CPU temperature reached to 80 C degrees in the stress - and this interrupted me OCCT tests .
I decided to buy some better cooling. I decided to budgetary SiletiumPC Fera2 cooling as I have read good opinions about it.
And here , on the one hand, the problem is solved , because my temperature in stress after OC oscillate around 70 degrees, and without OC arround 50 degrees. In Idle I have a 35 - 37 degs. But there is a problem with tempreature of cores. After installation of the new cooling I have noticed that the cores heat unevenly . # 0 and # 1 have correct tempearture at the start - the 35-37 degrees and then go up, while # 2 and # 3 are starting with 51 degrees. Then, the temperature increases in stress analogously to the # 0 and # 1 , but after going back to Idle - the first two cores cools to the starting temperature , while the latter two are at 51 degrees and do not descend below . Earlier on the box cooling everything was evenly on 4 cores .
I would add that I read the temperature using three different programs - HwInfo64 , RealTemp and said OCCT and everywhere the same. I generate load using OCCT or Prime.
Before I decided to write here I have read the various forums and found three possible causes:
Suggestion 1 a lot of people have written that the core # 0 is generally warmer than the others, because often " takes more work " than others - this situation does not concern me - for me # 0 is just one of the cooler ones
Suggestion 2 I applied unevenly paste or badly installed cooling. I took that to heart - I'm fresh , so I decided that this probably is the cause - I removed the cooling - carefully cleaned paste (by the way - I use this attached to cooler) - I put it all over again trying to evenly distribute . Tightened the back heatsink ensuring that both sides were tight and unfortunately nothing has changed - again # 2 and # 3 started with 51 degrees.
Suggestion 3 I've seen reviews that temperature sensors on the CPU can be problem as they can work inproperly. This option is most worrying for me . Unfortunately I am unable to verify it without your help .
And here 's my request - after reading what I have wrote above (BTW sorry for my english - it is not my mother language) are you able to suggest what is wrong or what I'm doing wrong? I would add that I do not care for extreme OC - I'd like to set the CPU to 3.2 or 3.3 MHz as I can reach it without tunning the memory. I do not know how these Goodram sticks are capable for OC , so I prefer to let them around the nominal settings . For more "extreme" memory now I do not have the budget right now.
Currently, the CPU goes stable @ 3200 and no overheating (unless around 70st in the stress is too much then please let me know, but 51 degrees on two cores at Idle worries me a lot.
Is there any possibility of verifying whether it is actually a problem with the sensors ? And if so, can I somehow fix it? And if not sensors then what is it? Is there a possibility that I could somehow physically damage these sensors while installing new cooling ? Because as I mentioned earlier while doing the first steps on the box cooling all cores had more or less the same temp.
I will be grateful for hints.
