I just rebuilt my main XP machine (the one in my profile is a Windows 7 machine I built last year). I had an Intel Q6600 in the same case, same fans and ran Prime95 default test for a day and a half with no heat problems. 2.4 Ghz (not OC'd). Now with the Phenom II x4 965 on an MSI 870A-G55 board and 4GB GSkill RAM. I'm running it at 3.4 Ghz (not OC'd either) I'm having heat issues maybe. I ran the stock cooler for a few minutes to see what it would do but it was definitely not cooling it well.
So I put back my Zalman 9500 and installed it twice. The first time I think I used a little too much thermal compound so I took it out and did it again nice and thin but enough and very even. Both times with Arctic Silver 5. The base of the cooler is quite flat too. I checked that. That hit 62C in about 5 minutes so I shut off Prime cuz it just shouldn't get that hot. The 2nd time I added an extra 80mm fan to the top of the case (there are 2 in the back along with the PSU fan) and a 120mm that's pushing a ton of air in the front of the case. It is loud. Like sitting in a server room almost.
So after 6 hours running Prime95 default test (on windows XP 32 bit by the way) with the extra fans I've got perfectly even temps across all 4 cores. The max was 57 and the current temp is 55. It's been pretty steady there from what I can tell. But like I said, this is loud and I can't keep it that way. I write software and would no way be able to stand the noise all day long every day.
A new cooler with a bigger fan might help a bit (like the 120mm Zalman) but it's not going to be enough to get this down to a reasonable temperature I think. Not after I slow down the 120mm. And in fact the 120mm in the front is going to be blowing over 3 HDD's after I put those back in. So there will be a little more heat in the case after that.
I read something in a thread on this CPU about lowering the vcore. I'm not skilled at messing with those BIOS settings. But I went in and found that I couldn't even change it. Those settings are all set to auto and they are uneditable. I looked for a setting that would unlock them but nothing worked. Right now my vcore is at 1.44. Will lowering that help? I don't plan to OC this.
I'll do some screenshots later on but I want to keep running tests right now and I don't have a way to get the screeshots off the machine in question right now. Just figured I'd get this going to see if there's anything I can do.
Thanks!
So I put back my Zalman 9500 and installed it twice. The first time I think I used a little too much thermal compound so I took it out and did it again nice and thin but enough and very even. Both times with Arctic Silver 5. The base of the cooler is quite flat too. I checked that. That hit 62C in about 5 minutes so I shut off Prime cuz it just shouldn't get that hot. The 2nd time I added an extra 80mm fan to the top of the case (there are 2 in the back along with the PSU fan) and a 120mm that's pushing a ton of air in the front of the case. It is loud. Like sitting in a server room almost.
So after 6 hours running Prime95 default test (on windows XP 32 bit by the way) with the extra fans I've got perfectly even temps across all 4 cores. The max was 57 and the current temp is 55. It's been pretty steady there from what I can tell. But like I said, this is loud and I can't keep it that way. I write software and would no way be able to stand the noise all day long every day.
A new cooler with a bigger fan might help a bit (like the 120mm Zalman) but it's not going to be enough to get this down to a reasonable temperature I think. Not after I slow down the 120mm. And in fact the 120mm in the front is going to be blowing over 3 HDD's after I put those back in. So there will be a little more heat in the case after that.
I read something in a thread on this CPU about lowering the vcore. I'm not skilled at messing with those BIOS settings. But I went in and found that I couldn't even change it. Those settings are all set to auto and they are uneditable. I looked for a setting that would unlock them but nothing worked. Right now my vcore is at 1.44. Will lowering that help? I don't plan to OC this.
I'll do some screenshots later on but I want to keep running tests right now and I don't have a way to get the screeshots off the machine in question right now. Just figured I'd get this going to see if there's anything I can do.
Thanks!
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