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Are my temps high?

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Right now I'm running a DD TDX block with a Bonneville Heatercore and Swiftech MCP-655 on my Venice 3000+ @ 1.65 volts overclocked to 2.7ghz. I'm hitting 39 degrees Celsius idle, and 49 degress celsius under load.

I was just wondering whether those are high temps? And what kind of temps are other people getting on water setups?
 
I would say thats rather high. My 3000+ @ 2.77ghz 1.52vcore hits 42-43c load on a HOT day. Right now its sitting @ 39c full load.
BTW just got my swftech h20 apex kit today, though won't be installing til next week when I get my dfi ut sli-dr.
 
Even with that Oc you should be ideling alot cooler, load is also somewhat on the warm side for a Venice core.

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Hmmm, do the Venice cores have heat spreaders on them? If so, check yours to see if its concave =).
 
Yup, they got heat spreaders, and I've seen several that have sort of a burr/lip on the corners. A bit of 2000 grit sandpaper takes care of it.
 
Hmm.. yeah I thought it was a bit high. I've also felt my waterblock while the CPU is under load.. and I can't seem to feel any heat on the outsides.

Guess I'll be double checking the heatspreader when I take the system apart to add a GPU and chipset Waterblock to the loop.

Thanks guys!
 
The ihs on the slower 64's is not as well tended to as on the pricier ones. The corners of your ihs are probably rather sharp from the blanking process. They are more rounded on the pricier chips. This is somtheing I found out after noticing my own ihs was concave. Went to the store and looked at several A64's, all the fx series were more rounded on the corners, not having the sharp edge from the blanking machine.

The again, could just be screwy mobo temps...
 
Well I lapped it... then I took the IHS off... and my temps? 39 degrees idle.... 49 degrees load..... I'm starting to think it's my motherboard that's messing wit the temps.. the thing that's weird is my waterblock.. is completely cool to touch. It's like there is no heat source :|
 
If your temps did not change after removing ihs, you have either a very poor temp monitor in your bios, or, your block is not seated properly due to removal of ihs. On some A64 sockets removal of the ihs results in the block no making good contact with the core. This is because the block is held up by the socket cam box. Try to slide a piece paper between the block and cam box. If the paper catches the cam box height is preventing good contact with the cpu core...
 
plywood99 said:
If your temps did not change after removing ihs, you have either a very poor temp monitor in your bios, or, your block is not seated properly due to removal of ihs. On some A64 sockets removal of the ihs results in the block no making good contact with the core. This is because the block is held up by the socket cam box. Try to slide a piece paper between the block and cam box. If the paper catches the cam box height is preventing good contact with the cpu core...
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Well this is a new Venice core (killed the old one removing the IHS). I went straight to removing the IHS and the idle temps are now 42. Keep in mind though I did add a Maze 4 GPU block to the loop. My load temps are still consistently about 10 degrees higher than my idle (so 51-52).

I'm thinking my BIOS is messing with me since a Venice shouldn't idle at 42 degrees C... especially with the IHS off.

I did check the core contact and it's perfect I put the block down as hard as I could and made sure that it was not resting on the cam box.
 
Well if you haven't already, the first logical thing to do would be update the bios. It might save you some hassle of redundently remounting hardware.
 
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