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Anonymous   05-14-2008 at 04:24:06 PM

Howdy all

Just built a PC using an Antec Ninee Hundred Case with a Q6700 CPU. Just booted it up for the first time, went into the BIOS, and the CPU temperature goes between 110c and 113C. I quickly turned the PC off in case it melted. I'm guessing this isn't an average temperature, am I right? The heatsink/fan thingy the CPU came with is securely fitted and all fans are running at max but still I get this high temp.

Anyone got an ideas or is this normal? Not goonna chance it running while I install Vista Ultimate 64bit.

Edit: Forgot to mention, its on a Gigabyte GA-EX38-DS4 mboard.

Thanks,
S

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htoonthura   05-14-2008 at 04:36:54 PM
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Anonymous wrote :

Howdy all

Just built a PC using an Antec Ninee Hundred Case with a Q6700 CPU. Just booted it up for the first time, went into the BIOS, and the CPU temperature goes between 110c and 113C. I quickly turned the PC off in case it melted. I'm guessing this isn't an average temperature, am I right? The heatsink/fan thingy the CPU came with is securely fitted and all fans are running at max but still I get this high temp.

Anyone got an ideas or is this normal? Not goonna chance it running while I install Vista Ultimate 64bit.

Edit: Forgot to mention, its on a Gigabyte GA-EX38-DS4 mboard.

Thanks,
S




Hell yes. It is extremely hot.

Reseat your heatsink.
Repply thermal paste. ( if possible Artic Silver 5)
Disable all the auto fan control in bios.

Just give you a reference. My Q6600 at 3.2 idles at 36. That is the hottest core. The coolest core is 27. So, you did sth wrong.

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Anonymous   05-14-2008 at 04:42:58 PM
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Thanks for the reply.

Should I have got some thermal paste with the CPU? Dont think I did. I assumed the heatsink already had some on it as it left a sticky impression on the CPU when I fist put it on.

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night_wolf_in   05-14-2008 at 04:43:10 PM
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yeah, there is something off.

i would do what he (above) suggested. if then i c things are stable. ill turn on the auto fan control. since i want the reduction of noise.

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rubix_1011   05-14-2008 at 04:57:44 PM
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Most GPUs don't reach those temps under load with stock coolers.

You realize that 100C is 212F? In case you have forgotten, that's the boiling point of water at sea level. Pull the heatsink, get some aftermarket thermal paste, clean off your heatsink and chip, apply the new thermal paste, re-seat your heat sink.

I'm actually surprised that the chip/board didn't just shut down at those temps. How long was it running that hot?


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cisco   05-14-2008 at 05:14:06 PM
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I agree start by reinstalling the heat sink. Clean off old thermal paste using either something like the link below. Then use a good thermal paste. Artic Silver is excellent but I've been using the stuff below with pretty good luck. If it still is reporting those high numbers then update your bios to see if that helps. That number is so high that it might not be accurate. I would think you would have problems with shutdowns at those temps.

 

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Anonymous   05-14-2008 at 05:23:51 PM
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It was running for about 30 secs at that temp. To be honest, I think the reading was inaccurate. I removed the heatsink and there was no damage or smoulder marks to that or the CPU. I repositioned the heatsink, booted back up and the CPU temp in the BIOS read 41c... left it running for about 20 mins and it was 43c and has since stayed there. Now installing Vista Ultimate 64-bit and all seems fine.

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godless   05-14-2008 at 05:32:50 PM
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seems like you didn't install the heatsink properly the first time around. you got it fixed now so it's all good.

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rubix_1011   05-14-2008 at 05:33:57 PM
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True, I have a friend who more than likely had a bad ASUS board...it always reported his CPU at about 70C at idle...both in BIOS and with CoreTemp. He even went as far to buy a decent watercooling setup and it still didn't help. Maybe you have a jacked up board.

**My fault, I see you have things fixed now. Whew for you**


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Anonymous   05-14-2008 at 06:23:07 PM
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I'll still check things out with CoreTemp, check BIOS version too and update if necessary.

Thanks all for replying!

Take it easy,
S

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