- Jan 16, 2012
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Hey everyone,
I have an i5-2500k paired with a Corsair H60 on a Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H motherboard. When I first set it up a few years ago, I immediately overclocked it to 4.5GHz and my Prime temps never went above 75C.
I recently started getting BSOD's, so I reset the BIOS back to default. Then I reformatted and decided a couple of months later to overclock again (thinking maybe it was a software issue that caused the BSOD's).
Well, the BSOD's stopped. But now my Prime temps all of a sudden are hitting 85C! I have my voltage set to 1.35 in the BIOS, but I've noticed that the core voltage fluctuates under load between 1.35 and 1.4 (LLC is set to 6 in BIOS). I've read that up to 1.5 is safe, so I feel like that's not the problem.
My cooler is roughly 3 years old. Maybe the pump is dying or the water inside has evaporated? I have 1 fan on it (I tried 2 in a push-pull config early on, but didn't notice much of an improvement), configured as an intake. Pulling air from outside of the case over the radiator (my case has a top exhaust fan that immediately pulls that air out).
Any thoughts?
Additional considerations:
I keep it at about 70F in my apartment. I tried reapplying thermal paste (AS5) using the line method. Marginal improvement, if any. Case is kept clean, I dust it out often. I have 2x 120mm front intakes and a 140mm top exhaust, in addition to the radiator fan.
I have an i5-2500k paired with a Corsair H60 on a Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H motherboard. When I first set it up a few years ago, I immediately overclocked it to 4.5GHz and my Prime temps never went above 75C.
I recently started getting BSOD's, so I reset the BIOS back to default. Then I reformatted and decided a couple of months later to overclock again (thinking maybe it was a software issue that caused the BSOD's).
Well, the BSOD's stopped. But now my Prime temps all of a sudden are hitting 85C! I have my voltage set to 1.35 in the BIOS, but I've noticed that the core voltage fluctuates under load between 1.35 and 1.4 (LLC is set to 6 in BIOS). I've read that up to 1.5 is safe, so I feel like that's not the problem.
My cooler is roughly 3 years old. Maybe the pump is dying or the water inside has evaporated? I have 1 fan on it (I tried 2 in a push-pull config early on, but didn't notice much of an improvement), configured as an intake. Pulling air from outside of the case over the radiator (my case has a top exhaust fan that immediately pulls that air out).
Any thoughts?
Additional considerations:
I keep it at about 70F in my apartment. I tried reapplying thermal paste (AS5) using the line method. Marginal improvement, if any. Case is kept clean, I dust it out often. I have 2x 120mm front intakes and a 140mm top exhaust, in addition to the radiator fan.
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