Phenom II load temp

[gunz77]

HI I dont know if I posted this in the correct area or not sorry if I didnt. I recently bough a Phenom II 920 chip and installed it. I was doing a stress test with Prime95 to check my temp. At idle my pc is somewhere around 35to37 and running Prime95 at 100% on all cores it hit 58c. I know the max case temp on the chip is 61c. This is a stock chip no over clocking, Is this a good temp or a bad one.

 

[gunz77]

Oh, btw this is with the stock heat sync.

 

[yonef]

hmm, seems a bit high to me, even with stock cooler. Check the cooler RPM, and ensure you have enough space around and a good airflow in the case. You may need to add exhaust cooler on the back of the case and if possible add a intake cooler on fornt.

Mine 940 on stock clock doing about 42 C on prime95 (aftermarket cooler), even on 3.6Ghz did not exceed 47 C

 

[gunz77]

Yeah I thought it was a bit hight too. Using antec 300 with the stock fans plus two intakes on the front (120mm) and a side panel fan(120mm). I have decent wiring solution. I used artic silver 5, rice grain size applied and spread super then. Amd fan control set to auto, all the bios settings show correct. I can't think of why it would run this warm. Deffective cpu? This is driving me crazy. Thanks for the reply though.

 

[yonef]

What termal paste you used? and did you install it properly? Did you install the heatsink properly? (I've seen sink rotated on 180 C, and did not match properly on the entire cpu, this was on socket A, I'm not sure this is issue of AM2)
1) try reapply the termal paste
2) Look at the BIOS in HW-monitor page and set the cooler to run at higher speeds (if possible)

 

[Devastator_uk]

Actually on 754, 939, AM2 & AM3 sockets you can rotate the cooler 180 degrees (not C as you said, it's an angle not a temperature), I had seen that too on a socket A or might of been a 478 and it's not good (may as well not install it at all).