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SABERTOOTH 990FX (First gen, discontinued)
Corsiar H40 (water cooler)
AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE (stock)
MSI Radeon HD 7950 3GB
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600
SAMSUNG 840 SSD
KINGWIN ABT-650MM 650W
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Up until recently I would have idle temps at about 49C and load temps, depending on game, at around 60-65C. However, after an gaming session last night, my idle temps are 55C! I stopped last night because my CPU temp according to Speedfan was 80C! It has NEVER gone that high even with the entire radiator filled with dust. I preceded to take apart the H40 and completely clean the radiator and fans of all dust and hair. I put it back together, never taking the cooling block off the CPU. The extreme idle temps stayed the same and I don't have the balls to game on my CPU right now.
While looking around for problems that might be causing it, I found that, although I have my processor set to the stock multiplier of 17X and thus targeting 3400 MHz, my CPU is pushing 3684 MHz. It is overclocking when I don't want it to.
How do I stop this and is it the thing causing my problems?
Corsiar H40 (water cooler)
AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE (stock)
MSI Radeon HD 7950 3GB
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600
SAMSUNG 840 SSD
KINGWIN ABT-650MM 650W
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Up until recently I would have idle temps at about 49C and load temps, depending on game, at around 60-65C. However, after an gaming session last night, my idle temps are 55C! I stopped last night because my CPU temp according to Speedfan was 80C! It has NEVER gone that high even with the entire radiator filled with dust. I preceded to take apart the H40 and completely clean the radiator and fans of all dust and hair. I put it back together, never taking the cooling block off the CPU. The extreme idle temps stayed the same and I don't have the balls to game on my CPU right now.
While looking around for problems that might be causing it, I found that, although I have my processor set to the stock multiplier of 17X and thus targeting 3400 MHz, my CPU is pushing 3684 MHz. It is overclocking when I don't want it to.
How do I stop this and is it the thing causing my problems?
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