AMD APU Owners Club - Page 49

That does seem 4-8 degrees too high for a stock cooler not under load (I run A10-5800K with a Mugen3b air cooler at around 25 degrees). Maybe there is too much paste between your APU's thermal plate and the cooler. I use Arctic Silver 5 where the paste is meant only to fill microscopic pits to produce a uniformly conductive surface and is best applied by rubbing it in with a fingertip until it is barely visible.

What are you using to monitor your temps?

CoreTemp is reporting anywhere from 15~25 and SpeedFan is the one reporting 38~50

I use AI Suite II v.2.00.01 and Speedfan v.4.47 which more or less agree.

Damn...Time to reTIM and resit the cooler.

If I could at least get it to run at 4 GHz, RAM at 9-9-9-27 1600Mhz 1.65V, quiet fans and a little boost for the iGPU I'd be a happy camper. No power savings needed. Quiet fans seems to be a no go. Always blasting at 2,500+ rpm, It's a tiny case and I'd prefer it to be as quiet as possible. And I'm sure the stock heatsink is more quiet than this. Changing anything AI suite does not seem to help with fan speeds either..
In the advanced UEFI temps go up to 50+ C without doing anything.

I also suppose that both CPU-Z and hwmonitor shows the wrong voltages and temps.

Sorry for being a n00b.

My cooler isn't ideal for my solution and seeing how this was my budget HTPC build that went out of control I took it out and replaced it for the box fan...

How disappointing. Temps with the stock box cooler is still reading around 35~40deg but that's good enough for me ATM.

If your fan(s) are 4-pin PWM types, like the one on the stock cooler, then you should be able to control them through the CPU_FAN and CHA_FAN headers on your F2A85-M LE motherboard. There is also a PWR_FAN header next to CPU_FAN, but that is only a 3-pin header and can't transmit a speed control signal.

By default the Q-Fan Control for CPU_FAN and CHA_FAN in Monitor Menu have to be set to [Enable] before you can control your fan speeds. Once this is done you can either select one of three preset speed profiles [Silent/Standard/Turbo], together with a Low Limit warning setting [Ignore/200 rpm/300 rpm/400 rpm/500 rpm/600 rpm], or you can set [Manual] and build your own. These will vary the CPU or CHA fan speed automatically according to the current CPU or MB temperature.

An alternative, especially if you have only a 3-pin chassis fan, is to use Fan Xpert 2 in AI Suite II, which is capable of controlling the power feed through the 2nd pin as well as the speed control signal through the 4th pin (but only on CHA_FAN). Obviously, carrying out Auto-Tune in FanXpert is something you would be more likely to do for a standard setting rather than a momentary overclock, but you can get into FanXpert's Advanced Mode by clicking the button in the upper right of the FanXpert screen to get more direct control.

At least you know that if you want all your fans running at top speed you just have to disable the Q-Fan controls.

As for your 4000/1600/760+ target OC I should think if you follow the guide in my post #480 you shouldn't have any trouble setting it up as a BIOS profile once you have got the settings right in AI Suite II.

for those of you having issues with heat and not afraid of a mod...
if you have space for the radiator..inside or out.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Asetek-760GC-Combo-Liquid-Cooler-for-NVIDIA-GTX-470-480-570-580-/280965116990?pt=US_CPU_Fans_Heatsinks&hash=item416ad3743e

this is the form where people have taken the oem heatsink off thevideo card and used a clc cooler on the card.. im currently runing two 6950s off one rad in a slightly different setup.
im going to use one of these kits on my fm2 setup. pair with some corsair sp120 quiet fans they have good static pressure for a radiator. my systems quieter with these and is cooler.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1203636/official-amd-ati-gpu-mod-club-aka-the-red-mod

hope this helps someone. If you buy one i dont get compensated :> however say hi to zach and tell them you are from OCN maybe it will get us a discount in the future.. who knows...
sunset1

Edit : those sp120's also come with a voltage reducer adapter to get the noise down even more.
Sometimes quiet isnt quiet enough.
Edited by sunset1 - 11/11/12 at 6:55pm

i had a ? i bought a black november deal from newegg a6-3650 and a mobo to replace my athlon 445 i was wondering is the gpu good enough or should i hook up my extra 7770 vapor x?