[CPU] AMD Phenom II 965 BE Too Hot??

[Kazahashi]

I'm using an Antec 1200 Case, a Biostar TA890FXE Mobo, G.Skill DDR3 Ram, and currently have an Arctic Cooler 7 Rev. 2 with the fan pointed up to the top fan to blow out (since I can only choose up or down). So far, I've gone through two different types of thermal paste, got some no name crap off of Ebay, and then today got in some Arctic Silver 5....applied it and I'm idling low 36-40, but when I load up Mass Effect 2, the temps jump up to over 60....the max temp I've seen is 66. What's going on?? Should I pop back in the stock fan?? I know I applied the paste right, as I followed the directions for it on the AS5 site, and I've also reset the HS twice now as well. I checked all the fans on the case, and they're also setup the way they're supposed to be, and running on high.....I'm a little at a loss because I don't want to fry this thing....thanks for the help in advance.

 

[WR2]

What are your ambient temps?

 

[Kazahashi]

The motherboard is reading a between 29 and 31.

 

[WR2]

Not system temps. The temperature of the air around you.

 

[Kazahashi]

Ah, it's 75 degrees in my apartment right now.

 

[Warsaw]

That sounds within reason, especially considering your ambient temps. How much of your processor is being used while in Mass Effect 2? Also, are you O/C'ing it at all?

 

[Kazahashi]

I'm not OC'ing it at all, the loads vary....between 40-95% on some of the cores.

 

[WR2]

Ambient temps play a part and CPU cooling works on the idea of rise over ambient temps = CPU coolers performance.

But at 24C your ambient temps aren't high enough to skew the system operating temps a lot.
Have you tested with the Antec case fans set to higher speeds?
Did you do any testing with the stock cooler?

 

[Kazahashi]

The Antec case fans are maxed out man....

And before I switched to the AC7 cooler, I was idling in the 40's sometimes high 40's....and that was with the stock thermal pad on the HS.

 

[WR2]

What program are you using to read your system temps?
Can you check the speed of the AC7 fan?
If you need a utility program to do that try HWMonitor
It can also double check to see your getting accurate temp reports.

 

[WR2]

Antec 1200 has good case cooling - really shouldn't need to run them any higher than medium. And lots of people have good success running on low.
Those top case fans are set on Exhaust (blowing out?), right?

 

[Kazahashi]

Yea, the top fan (one big boy fan) is set for exhaust, as well as the back two fans.

I'm getting you a ss of the HWMonitor thing right now.

Before I've been using CoreTemp, and Everest.

 

[Kazahashi]

Here you go:

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m5/Kazahashi/Untitled-1.jpg

 

[WR2]

Have you noticed how fast the CPU fan is running under load? While idle?

 

[Kazahashi]

Stupid photobucket....hold on.

 

[Kazahashi]

The CPU under load runs maxed out MHZ wise, and without load it drops to 800mhz. I tried putting the power settings in Win 7 to High Performance to push it to max mhz, and I still idle fairly low temperature wise.

 

[WR2]

Max CPU Temp is that report is 34C.

 

[Kazahashi]

Hardware monitor ITE IT8721
Voltage 0 12.28 Volts [0xF6] (+12V)
Voltage 1 5.04 Volts [0xF0] (+5V)
Voltage 2 1.00 Volts [0x53] (CPU VCORE)
Voltage 3 1.69 Volts [0x8D] (VIN3)
Voltage 4 1.18 Volts [0x62] (VIN4)
Voltage 5 1.96 Volts [0x83] (+3.3V)
Voltage 6 1.22 Volts [0x66] (VIN6)
Voltage 7 1.64 Volts [0x89] (VIN7)
Voltage 8 1.67 Volts [0x8B] (VIN8)
Temperature 0 31°C (87°F) [0x1F] (CPU)
Temperature 1 72°C (161°F) [0x48] (Mainboard)
Temperature 2 30°C (86°F) [0x1E] (TMPIN2)
Fan 0 1907 RPM [0x162] (CPU)
Fan 1 1210 RPM [0x22E] (FANIN1)
Fan PWM 0 99 pc [0x7F] (FANPWM0)
Fan PWM 1 0 pc [0x0] (FANPWM1)
Fan PWM 2 0 pc [0x0] (FANPWM2)

 

[Kazahashi]

Yea, that max temp is without me running anything.

Watch this man.

 

[WR2]

The Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 fan is rated at Fan Speed: 900 - 2500 RPM (controlled by PWM)
And yours was running at 1907 @ idle!!!

 

[Kazahashi]

Ok, I'm running the game and I've already shot up to 48 max temp just from loading my game....and it just keeps rising till around 60 or so.

 

[WR2]

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 @ Hi-Tech Reviews

 

[Kazahashi]

Lol, see, the fan is running like crazy....so I have no idea why the temps are all over the place in this thing.

 

[Kazahashi]

So any ideas guys??

 

[WR2]

What did you get on the full load run?