GA-X58A-UD3R + intel i7 950 idle high, run hot

[wazza300]

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R + intel i7 950 idle high, run hot

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[Mike_R]

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R + intel i7 950 idle high, run hot

What were core temps with the stock cooler?
Try other software, like Core Temp and HWMonitor(CPUID). What is TJmax set to in RealTemp?
If there's no bug with RealTemp core temperatures are to be worried about. If that what is being reported by the DTSs the CPU will throttle and/or the system may shut down completely.
Do you have CPU Thermal Monitor, and Bi-Directional PROCHOT enabled?

The core temps with the stock were about 70C, realtemp and coretemp were both giving the exact same numbers. I don't know what TJMax is or does so I havn't changed that at all. I havn't changed any settings in the BIOS if thats what you're referring to with the CPU thermal monitor and bi-directional PROCHOT and I don't recall seeing those terms in BIOS anywhere.


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Those temps are significantly higher than what NZXT is telling me, which is confirmed to be perfectly accurate. Currently I have a sensor almost right next to the CPU and it says 29C, and a sensor inside the Northbridge at 49C. Currently the Northbridge has a lack of airflow around it though, theres just a deadspace for my fans so I'm waiting on spot fans to remedy that on monday.

It's just strange that the cores are telling me they're running so bloody hot with a working H60 when my NZXT is telling me how cool its running and it is certainly NOT hot in my case whatsoever. If they were actually running that hot there should be some kind of heat coming off the CPU regardless of the H60 working, but theres absolutely none. So if there is just a faulty sensor on the board (or cpu? i dont know how it works) then is it still going to be shutting itself down even though its not actually running hot like it thinks it is?

[Acebmxer]

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R + intel i7 950 idle high, run hot

I am thinking possibly the way you are mounting the H60 or a thermal paste problem. Dont know if there is a correct or wrong orientation of the h60 to the motherboard like there is for other air cooled heat sinks or other water blocks.

From what I have read there are alot of people who dont like the H50,60,70 because their temps were not as good as expected. But thats only because they thought they were Water cooling their cpu but H50,60,70 will never be as good as a custom water loop.

What bothers me is that your temps are showing 60-70c at ilde/low load. THAT is very high. Also Might want to use the regular version of real temp not the GT version. Real Temp GT is for the 6 core cpu's.

TJMax is the max temp the cpu cores can reach before cpu throttling kicks in to keep the cpu cores from over heating. This can not be changed in the cpu but can be changed in real temp. Changing this and the Idle calibration is just so you can have the cores showing the same temp at idle/load. see my pic.



In theory if core temps = 100c cpu temp should also max out at I think 61c is max cpu temp for these cpus it might be 71c but not sure with out looking it up.

[Mike_R]

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R + intel i7 950 idle high, run hot

As far as I can tell the H60 is installed properly, there doesn't appear to be any kind of ventilation on the unit and the instructions say nothing about the orientation. From what we could tell the motherboard seems to be designed around having a fan directly on top of the heat sink. With the stock fan installed the idle temps were certainly much lower, around 45C, possibly because it was pushing the air around in that particular area of the case as opposed to the no air flow there is right now.

[Chike]

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R + intel i7 950 idle high, run hot

Were core temps also lower with the stock fan? those should not be effected by the airflow a all.
Also did you said you connect the cooler to SYS FAN2, did you try connecting the cooler with a molex? The SYS_FAN may not give it all the power it needs.

[Acebmxer]

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R + intel i7 950 idle high, run hot

Corsair fan blowing out of the back of the case is plugged into CPU_FAN. Extra fan blowing into the corsair rad is plugged into SYS_FAN2. Corsair heat sink attached to the CPU is plugged into SYS_FAN1 (3 pins). Side case fan is plugged into NZXT blowing into the case and is functional. Front fan is also plugged into NZXT blowing into the case and is functional. The H60 is running quite cool, much better than the last one was.

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If you are going to set the radiator in a push pull setup. Do not use SYS_fan2 header it only operates at half speed. Its bets to have the same fans blowing at the same speed to work best.

Set the H60 pump wire to cpu_fan header if you can.