Mason92

Yep. Diable those.

Lowspeed

1st of all, Happy 4th of July to you folks!

My Core Temp shows a reading of idle at mid 40s and around high 50s when running games and 3D apps. But thats just since my last post with stock cooler. No crashes, no BSODs.
(19 hours ago) My OC was set at 3.2ghz, 400 FSB, 8x multi

Just got the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro delivered, with the Arctic cooling Mx-2 Thermal compound.
Installed the CPU Cooler and got the new TIM on.
Here's the new reading so far;


The temp was dropped to about roughly 10c from stock cooler readings.
Also, is it normal to have the two Cores having different temps?
I somehow expected better results but you get what you paid for I suppose.

Time to have another OC to see how much this baby can go.
3.8Ghz stable would be a dream at this stage for me. More the better.

So, my next attempt is to set the multi at 8.5. Giving me 3.4Ghz. To see if it POSTs and boots into windows and will run the Small FFT test for an hour.
I'm hoping this will be fine since I was able to get to 3.5Ghz with stock despite the high temps. Which I quickly reverted back to smaller setting.

Oh, and I read that the TIM needs to be 'set' after certain hours of use.
Would this have a detrimental effect on my chip while running Prime95?

Also, I will not be adjusting the RAM side of things for now. I will leave them as it is until I can get my CPU to be stable, as you guys have mentioned.

re: CPU Cooler suggestions
I feel as though I need to explain the cooler situation.
I am not it the states at this time, and couldn't get things delivered overseas via newegg or any other vendors. Believe you me, I would've bought what you guys have suggested had I read it in time and found it online.
Hence my choice of AC Freezer 7 Pro with the TIM.

Lowspeed

No worries, chevymeister. Your post at least gave me an idea at the time of the post. So it was useful information for me. I'm like a sponge right now..absorb absorb absorb!

Lowspeed

This statement is actually wrong, I just checked my previous pictures and realized that the temps are pretty similar at Idle with stock cooler.

What gives?

Enthusiast

Each cooler has a limit to what it can dissipate, for example the stock cooler might be able to cool 75 watts of heat but your new cooler might be able to cooler say 125 watts of heat. When your idling your cpu might only generate 50 watts of heat so idle temps will be the same. When it comes to load temps on the other hand that is a different story. The stock cooler can't remove the heat in time and becomes saturated in heat while your new cooler can which justifies the difference in coolers.

edit: did that make sense?

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Lowspeed

@ Enthusiast
Yes it did thank you.

My results so far on 3.6Ghz update;

shughard

Your OC is looking good. My E7400 took 1.362500 vcore in bios to maintain stability @ 400x9 in my P5Q. You might try lapping your E7400. It dropped my temps 2 degrees at idle and evened out the temp between cores. After lapping it was running 31c 31c idle 53c 53c full load P95 small ffts.

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Mattb2e

Intel has said themselves that the Thermal diodes used for temp monitoring arent really designed for that lol, but anyways the readings are most innacurate at idle and you shouldnt worry about them at idle, its the load temps that are important. What are your load temps at your new OC?

Nice overclock by the way, we can try and push it further if you want.

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Lowspeed

Absolutely, I would like to reach 4.0Ghz mark if possible at some point of my OC process. Or close there of.
Max load temp: 58c so far.

Mattb2e

That would require a 10x multi most likely more cpu voltage as well as manual entries for just about all of your bios parameters. But we can give it a shot, I you can take pictures of your bios settings that could help.

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