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Alright, I am going to post pics of Real Temp, CPU-Z, and Easy Tune to give a better idea of hardware and settings used and hopefully that will provide a better picture. One of the things I am concerned about is overall temperature of the system. I currently have the Cooler Master HAF 932, Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU cooler, and Tuniq TX-2 thermal compound and I thought I definitely would not have to worry about temps at all! PLENTY on space, cables all tie-wrapped in the back, awesome thermal compound, and an overall excellent performing CPU cooler, but I am starting to worry that maybe something is wrong. See picture...
IDLE Temps with Real Temp at 3.0Ghz OC (will post settings later on in post)
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/Jace5869/RealTempnon-load.jpg

LOAD Temps with Real Temp at 3.0 Ghz OC
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/Jace5869/REALTEMPTEMPERATUREat3Ghz.jpg

Easy Tune Temps
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/Jace5869/EASYTUNEMONITORTEMPS.jpg

Now, I have played around with having the fan blow at variable speeds and from anywhere from 10-100% with only a few degrees difference. ALSO, I have already re-applied the Tuniq TX-2 compound twice, I've tried with medium amount of compound (thin even layer), to a very thin/very little amount, to what I have now which I applied three streaks of compound and then evened out on the chip ( the most compound applied, but coolest - it seems). Are these normal temps? I mean I have a D0 stepping processor and I'm feeling some-what disappointed at it's performance so far, and I already know OC is very YMMV and not guaranteed, but this seems off. I was debating the i7 975 at first, but decided on this because of the overwhelming reviews of how well it OC. Should I consider RMa'ing this CPU and/or the motherboard and heatsink back to NewEgg?

Here is some more info on my system from CPU-Z...
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/Jace5869/CPU-Zi7920at3Ghz.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/Jace5869/CPU-ZMOBOINFO.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/Jace5869/CPU-ZMEMORYINFO.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/Jace5869/CPU-ZMEMORYINFOandBRAND.jpg

Here is info from Easy Tune detailing what is configured right now...
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/Jace5869/EASYTUNEVOLTAGEPAGE1.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/Jace5869/EASYTUNEFREQ.jpg

Now the system ran very similar (in temps) at stock speeds; about ~38-43C IDLE and ~58-63C LOAD

Also, here is what I wrote down in case Easy Tune did not have all the information...

CPU Vcore = 1.25000v
DRAM = 1.600v
QPI/Vtt Voltage = 1.200v
IOH Core = AUTO
BCLK = 150mhz
+5v = 5.053v
Memory = 1200mhz
PCI-E = 100mhz
Multiplier = 20x
QPI Link Speed = AUTO
Performance Enhance = Standard
System Memory Multiplier = 8.0x
Memory Frequency = 1066 1200
DRAM Timing Selectable = Manual
7-7-7-16-1t for all three sticks
Turbo Boost = Enabled
CPU Cores Enabled = ALL
Multi-Threading = Enabled
C1E -= Enabled
C3/C6/C7 = Disabled


-------------------------System Components------------------------------
Cooler Master HAF 932 case
XIGMATEK Dark Knight-S1283V
OCZ Platinum 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Low Voltage Desktop Memory Model OCZ3P1600LV6GK
GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5
Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache x3 RAID 0
Tuniq TX-2 Cooling Thermal Compound
Samsung SH-S223L DVD Burner
EVGA 896-P3-1173-AR GeForce GTX 275 FTW Edition 896MB 448-bit DDR3
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Should I have gotten the Gigabyte x58 Extreme motherboard instead or a EVGA CLASSIFIED one?

Thanks for all the help!!



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Look normal for Core i7, with 98.5 % load temps. But if you need more answers, go to EVGA Forum boards. They have a Thread there on OC the X58 boards.

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=642527

I did see some difference between the 2 pics of the Real Temp, which was the TJMax settings.


Message edited by Yoosty on 07-04-2009 at 03:45:16 AM
Reply to Yoosty

your temps look great. IMO anything under ~65C while at 100% load is good. My CPU hits around 66C when it's been under 100% load for an hour or so.

------------------------------ Asus P5Q Pro|4GB OCZ Reaper 1066|3 HDDs|4870 1GB|Q6600 @ 3Ghz 1.24V|NZXT Tempest
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yes those are normal for Air cooling ,that is why I went water and my temps @ 4.5Ghz are 40c-60c 24/7 thats with speedstep/turbo disabled manaul set 21x215=4.51Ghz and vcore @1.38v memory@ 1290 (6-6-6-18)2T (1.64v)
http://valid.canardpc.com/cache/banner/598151.png
http://i943.photobucket.com/albums/ad275/itzamedave/th_skeleton002.jpg

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