I've finally put together my C2 3930k, 16 gb ddr3 2133 gskills, on a ASRock Extreme6. To save some money I recycled my Thermalright Ultra 120 extreme cooler in a push pull config that was doing a great job cooling my Q9650 at 4.05 ghz at 65C under full load.
I have reseated and reapplied Artic Silver TIM 5 times (vertical line 1 mm in thickness as in the AS5 instructions), but I still get 38-40c on idle. Ran Prime 95 for 10 minutes and temps were 50-55. I wanted to give overclocking a shot and pushed it to 4 ghz, 1.34 vcore. The temps shot to 90C at bootup. Worried, I immediately shut down the system to avoid damage. The system refused to load windows after that. Don't know why but after multiple bios resets and clearing the cmos I managed to get it to boot again. I thought I had damaged the CPU back there.
So what could be happening? Is my TIM incorrectly applied..... maybe the single vertical line Artic Silver mentions does not work on a 6 core, or is the TRUE 120 cooler just not enough to cool a Sandy Bridge E?
I have reseated and reapplied Artic Silver TIM 5 times (vertical line 1 mm in thickness as in the AS5 instructions), but I still get 38-40c on idle. Ran Prime 95 for 10 minutes and temps were 50-55. I wanted to give overclocking a shot and pushed it to 4 ghz, 1.34 vcore. The temps shot to 90C at bootup. Worried, I immediately shut down the system to avoid damage. The system refused to load windows after that. Don't know why but after multiple bios resets and clearing the cmos I managed to get it to boot again. I thought I had damaged the CPU back there.
So what could be happening? Is my TIM incorrectly applied..... maybe the single vertical line Artic Silver mentions does not work on a 6 core, or is the TRUE 120 cooler just not enough to cool a Sandy Bridge E?
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