I have an i7 930 and I'm not sure which program is actually giving me the right temperatures. I've used Real temp, core temp, and the program that came with my motherboard. In real temp and core temp they show about the same with my idle temps around 42-46, but with asus pc probe its showing 34-38 for my idle. any ideas?
Well the bios is showing about the same range as asus pc probe. so I guess it's right. I wonder why the other two are off by that much.
compatibility maybe if board is made by asus? worry about it if temps are in the high 50's into the low 60's at idle.
what do you think i should be getting at full load? I ran prime 95 for a while last night and they pretty much peaked and stayed at 73. Is that too hot or? it was pretty warm last night.
check with members sammorris & theonejrs to see what they think of that temp as i think it is to high.
That is HOT...only video cards should run that hot; and I don't even think video cards SHOULD...as they don't seem to last very long at those temps.
hmm. I'm using the stock Intel cooler. I reseated the heat sink a couple of times just to make sure it was on there right. right now it's idling at 27, and peaked at 65 with prime95, but i still don't think it should be getting that high. I have an antec 900 case with both sides off and all fans at high speed so I should be getting good enough airflow. I guess I should try getting a new cooler. any recommendations?
First, what kind of thermal compound are you using? The cheap stuff can cause a decent cooler to work very poorly. Typically, stock intel coolers should keep the CPU under 50C...it seems like there must be something weird causing these high heats. As for a replacement cooler, there are a lot of them available...but I would hate to see you spend money on a cooler when what you really need is arctic silver.
Bingo! We have our problem! Get a flat piece of plastic, with a strait edge on it. If you have an old credit card, cut it in half length-wise...otherwise try to come up with something that will be close to half of a credit card. Apply a glob of arctic silver to the middle, and use the piece of plastic to spread the stuff around. We want a thin, even layer across the entire top of the chip. Once you have spread it to all corners, spread it using parallel strokes, so that you know it is as even as you are going to get it. Clean the heatsink bottom, and reinstall it. Run system at 100% load for about an hour to break the stuff in.
before applying it I read the instructions on the arctic silver site, and it said for the i7 processor to apply it in a thin line. that's the only reason I did it that way, because I thought you were supposed to spread it out.
