I just installed a new CPU because my older one was running hotter than normal. around 60C when playing games before it was never higher than 55C or so. Even on idle it was around 45C which it normally was around 38C. Since it was 4-5 years old I decided to upgrade from that Athlon X2 64 2.8 dual to a Phenom II 3.5 quad I also picked up 2 80mm case fans to bring air in the front, previously all my fans were in positions to blow hot air out so I wanted some to bring cool air in.
When i first put it in it ran cooler like 38C idle. And I never got it up to high temps because it would crash whenever I did high intensity stuff. I found in my BIOS that the frequency was set at weird values so I set it to the normal 200, and then also set voltage to auto regulate(which I later set to normal values). The CPU now runs everything without crashing. However, it idles at 48C and stays around 60C when playing games. Also while rendering some 3d stuff it was reported at 70C in all cores! I am not sure what to do to get this temperature down. Any ideas?
When i first put it in it ran cooler like 38C idle. And I never got it up to high temps because it would crash whenever I did high intensity stuff. I found in my BIOS that the frequency was set at weird values so I set it to the normal 200, and then also set voltage to auto regulate(which I later set to normal values). The CPU now runs everything without crashing. However, it idles at 48C and stays around 60C when playing games. Also while rendering some 3d stuff it was reported at 70C in all cores! I am not sure what to do to get this temperature down. Any ideas?