• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

did I goof?

X

xSDMx

Gawd
2FA
Joined
Apr 21, 2005
Messages
582
Left my computer on overnight and my pump failed sometime during the night.

When I wokeup in the morning, my computer has recovered from a BSOD and GPU temperature was at 70C while CPU temperature was at 98C.

I have a 4770K and a GTX 780

I was away from the computer for less than six hours

did auto shutdown do its job?
 
On the whole it's hard to kill a proc with temps anymore as they'll throttle and/or shutdown.

Is the 98C number with the pump still broken? If yes then don't run the system again until you've got some kind of cooling on there.

Once a cooling solution is in place (do you still have the stock cooler?) then i'd just run something like prime95 or intelburntest for a while to see what temps and reliability are like. Chances are it should be fine.
 
I had an older Core2Quad 9650 running at 4ghz under water... same deal, pump was off, somehow the power header had become disconnected. It was days before I even noticed. That was with light office type use... no gaming, just web browsing, data file access, etc.

On a lark I launched real temp one day just to see what things were sitting at and noticed the cores were maxing out at 95c or so. Thus, the CPU was throttling down for compensate.

I don't know for how long it ran at these temps, it couldn't have been more than about a week because I had been doing some benchmarking on a weekend and had been monitoring temps at that time. A week later when I checked again is when I noticed the problem.

I assume it'd been running at that temp for days.

Needless to say, it still works great, passes prime with flying colors.

These moden CPU's are nearly impossible to kill.
 
You're good. Don't worry :).

Throttling will kick in.

My GF at the time played some Oblivion on my old E6300 without a heatsink attached. I came home from class to an angry girlfriend "You spent 1000$ on this system and I'm only getting 2-3fps in Oblivion. You should have bought an alienware like I told you to!"

Yeah. I was piiiiissed.
 
Your CPU should be fine, just don't keep running your computer at those temps, get a heatsink on it or a new pump ASAP.
 
Thanks all; I was freaking out this morning. :)

When I get my new DDC pump, I'll put the CPU through some prime95 laps.

What software do you recommend for temperature shutdown? Is CoreTemp reliable?
 
xSDMx said:
Thanks all; I was freaking out this morning. :)

When I get my new DDC pump, I'll put the CPU through some prime95 laps.

What software do you recommend for temperature shutdown? Is CoreTemp reliable?
Click to expand...

Just use bios temp shutdown, it will hard shut off the PC reliably. Software shutdown could hang on windows, especially if it BSOD's before it can shutdown properly. That and software isn't generally as accurate as bios when it comes to CPU temps.
 
Your fine.

Next time attached the pump to the CPU fan header, then set it so if the pump speed drops the computer powers down.
 
D5 > ddc i had one run for 6 year 24/7 until a bad res let it run dry and fragged the bearing
 
2 years ago my comp auto shut down, the water in the loop had began to freeze and had got slushy.

The RPM of the pump slowed down and the BIOS detecting this auto shut down.

Main advantage of attaching the pump to the CPU header.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top