razorguy

Ok, I have the setup listed in my signature. I was running stock clock for a while because when I was OC'ing in AMD Overdrive, if I increased the speed or voltage of the CPU, it would decrease the clock. I could put the multiplier up to even 15.5X from 15X and hit apply and it would take it down to 4X for some reason.. Well with the release of the new version of Overdrive yesterday, I downloaded it and am capable of OC'ing through it although I eventually decided to just go through the BIOS anyway.

But my current settings are 3.6GHz at 1.45V. Nothing crazy at all. With the massive Zalman heatsink I imagine it should stay fairly cool. According to Overdrive and OCCT....it is not.

I used OCCT to test it, and the temp at idle was ~32. It starting rising into the 50 range and I was ok with that. Well then it hit 60. I got a little uneasy but let the test continue (this was about 3:30 minutes into the test). At just over 4 minutes, I stopped the test when it hit 65C. I read the thread concerning the faulty temp readings, but I would like to look at this from every angle.

I want to water cool in the very near future, but this doesn't seem like too much to ask for from air cooling until I do.. Any thoughts?

awaizy

Which Zalman do you have? Many of the older models aren't suited to cool such hot quad cores.

razorguy

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118046

And I'm using Arctic Silver 5 with it..