CMOS battery died, lost my OC's.

[N3C14R]

Well the CMOS battery on my motherboard decided to die and take my overclock settings with it. I spent a good day and a half trying to put my bios settings back together, but upon doing so I noticed the atrocious temperatures the cpu makes while stability testing with prime95. This is on 3.8ghz, I suspect it would be a lot worse if I set it back to run my standard 191*21 BLCK/Multiplier.

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/4359/tempsm.jpg

I tried setting my Vcore and VVT lower to decrease temps, but it causes prime95 to fail after a couple of minutes. Back when I first set my OC to 4ghz, my temps never exceed 80c, but now it slowly creeps up to 98c. I also loosened my ram timings from 9-9-9-24 to 12-12-12-38 to try and increase stability, but with no success.

 

Any ideas why? TIM crapping out? Cooler got somehow dislodged?

Edited July 11, 2011 by N3C14R

[CommanderCrazy]

Im thinking that you may have knocked the cooler a bit when replacing your battery. Unlikely, but its all i got. :confused:

[N3C14R]

Probably, A more likely reason I think is that maybe the screws holding the cooler to the mobo came loose over time? I didn't see any specfifc locking mechanism while installing the cooler. I'll check that first.

[bben46]

Be sure the heatsink is clean - use a small brush to get dust out of the small channels.

[samadchaz]

your fan is running at 1962 rpm,is it running at max speed?

you dont have any system/other fan,how your case take the air inside? and put it out from back of the case?

[Erik005]

If you are using the stock cooler the temps look pretty normal.

[N3C14R]

I'm using an aftermarket Cooler Master Hyper 212+ heatsink. The max speed for the fan is 2000rpm since its a large 120mm fan.

 

I also have 4 other 80mm fans mounted in my case but they aren't PWM controlled since they're plugged directly into my PSU via molex connectors instead of the mobo.

[N3C14R]

Anyways, Got it down to 1.32v for 3.8ghz. Will be using it like this 24/7.

 

Such a shame that other people can get 3.8ghz with only 1.28v while I can't :(

[Iv000]

Just wanted to post a question on here, I don't want to open a new topic.

I bought new Hardware 2 days ago, its running great.

Except that those guys from service are stupid enough not to enable all 6 cores, so I had to do that, and I had to pay for them putting my CPU on the MOBO...

Anyways, since I'm not an expert in temperature, I would like to ask if those readings are ok:

 

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3.2GHZ,

IDLE - 4800-5000 RPM (I think that's too much), 38 celsius

All 6 cores on 100% - 5800-6000 RPM, 58 celsius

EDIT: By the way, its loud as hell...even if idle.

 

The GPU seems fine, idle its 38 C, it's got 2 fans, I can't find where to check the RPM.

 

I'm concerned about my CPU.

Are the readings fine?

 

Thanks.

Edited July 14, 2011 by Iv000

[N3C14R]

Yes those temperatures are in normal range. For a Phenom II, anything under 75c will be fine.

 

Might wanna think about swapping out your case fans for bearing-less, self lubricating or sleeved fans if the ones you have uses standard ball bearings.