FX-6100 Asus Crosshair V Help/Advice

[Tigerseye2008]

and just using 1 core it only gets to 51c on blend

 

[skpwn]

That's not really ideal. You want to test all 4 cores or your processor is kind of moot.

I'd start by reseating your heatsink and putting new thermal gel on it. Before you do that though, can you post your CPUZ and HWMonitor test right after you started the blend? You shouldn't be seeing those high of temps.

What happens if you blend at stock? What do your cores read?

 

[Tigerseye2008]

broke out my laptop to see i was too hasty lol and dont you mean all 6 cores? I just got done cleaning heatsink and cpu found out that i didnt apply paste evenly so it only had about 60% contact. Also I had it up to 5.0ghz stable at 1.5v core, just the heat was crazy and mobo would do overheating shut off runing anything so ill post when its back together lol

 

[skpwn]

That's because you weren't stable at 5 GHZ (just like your 4.3ghz isn't stable). You're going to need a lot of voltage to get stable at 5 GHZ, and some MASSIVE cooling.

Take some time and read through this thread before you do anything else.


Let's go back to square one after done that and blend for 20 minutes at stock, posting HWMonitor after it is done.

 

[Tigerseye2008]

Beep! the tube of paste I had only had alittle bit left and wasnt enough...well thanks for your help so far looks like I wont be back till I get some paste which will be a few days but I look forward to getting this cpu overclocked.

 

[Tigerseye2008]

sweet got some 1 day shipping so ill have some arctic silver 5 paste tomorrow

 

[Tigerseye2008]

Got it back together put it back to 3.3ghz and ran blend test after 5 mins 2 cores had hardware failure errors and it got up to 80c...

 

[skpwn]

Got it back together put it back to 3.3ghz and ran blend test after 5 mins 2 cores had hardware failure errors and it got up to 80c...

Sounds like it's time to RMA that CPU

 

[Tigerseye2008]

Yeah I was wondering if I got a bad cpu...how would I go about doing that? I bought this when it first hit the market.

 

[skpwn]

Yeah I was wondering if I got a bad cpu...how would I go about doing that? I bought this when it first hit the market.

Check out AMD's website for instructions

 

[Tigerseye2008]

Thanks for your help by the way I noticed when running prime 95 that those 2 cores that errored sometimes read different temps then the other cores...