Mine's stable at 4.9, but with my cooler temps go up to 94C with IntelBurnTest, so I'm not gonna submit till I get something better than this GeminII S
Mine's stable at 4.9, but with my cooler temps go up to 94C with IntelBurnTest, so I'm not gonna submit till I get something better than this GeminII S
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So long as it doesn't thermally shutdown you're honestly fine. :P IntelBurnTest will most likely pull the highest possible temps your CPU will ever experience, so don't worry about it, though I would definitely see about getting some better cooling for it. 94 certainly isn't healthy, but I would not even want mine running at like say, 80 Celsius during some heavy-CPU-tasking time.
I actually have a rasa rs240 kit that I replaced the hoses in. Great temps. At stock speeds my 2500k rarely breaks 45c. I love this setup so far. I will be adding at least one more rad to my loop and incorporating a GPU in it when I get rid of my 2xGTX 570s and go back to single GPU for a 7970 or whatever the next gen green card is.
I agree about the voltage, Cil. I have mine running at 1.4 for every day computing. I am, however, considering sending Intel $20 and seeing EXACTLY what this puppy can do.
I'm new to overclocking and i noticed that my clock multiplier fluctuates between two numbers. Is this Instability? Because even at stock multiplier and voltage it does this.
That'd probably be just the power saving feature. It down clocks automatically via the multiplier when there's no load on the processor to save power and should be perfectly fine and awesome. If it does that under 100% load, then you have something going wrong.
Yeah, even benching at 5GHz my chip drops down to 1600MHz while idle.
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It does this while running Prime95. It alternates between a multiplier of 21 and 14. It also does this at stock setting with a 15.5 multiplier and 14. I am getting my info from CPU-Z. I have an AMD 8120.
Are you running Prime95 on all cores? What are your temperatures while you are doing this?
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it is running on all 8 cores and it is running around 34c
Sounds like it might be an incompatible motherboard. I have an old Athlon 64 X2 6000+ in a board that doesn't support its core, and it boots at either 3 or 3.1GHz depending on what the board feels like doing. It acts a bit weird with the power saving too.
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its an Asus Sabertooth 990FX and an AMD 8120. I don't think they are incompatible.
It is if you have the 0803 BIOS or later, according to ASUS' web site. Worth checking what BIOS version the board has.
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Name: Cyanotical
Processor: Intel Core i7-3960x
Clock: 4.7 Ghz
Voltage: 1.44
Cooler: water
Screenshot LINK: http://i.imgur.com/0XBPa.jpg
Valid CPU-Z link: http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2208426
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Last edited by Cyanotical; 2012-02-02 at 07:28 PM.
thanks for the tip. I thought i updated everything after the build. I am currently running 4.2 ghz semi-tested. I tried 4.6 but windows crashed about 10 minutes in prim95 at about 1.39v.
I dont know too much about voltage, especially on this chip but I am pretty sure i can up it quite a bit.
At what range of temperatures should I start getting worried about doing damage to the CPU?
I have come to the conclusion that F@H is not a proper stress test. Even SWTOR is stressing my cpu more than it does. IMO it should not be accepted.