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Possible that temp. sensor is limiting an O/C?

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MemoryInAGarden

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I know this may seem a bit nitpicky but I want to go farther than 3.4 ghz with my 2.4C. At stock volts, BIOS reads IDLE temps in excess of 60C and load temps between 85-90C. When I had the AbitEQ program installed, the temperatue alarm goes off and I have to reboot the system to get it quiet. I reached into the machine while it was folding one day and my Zalman 7000 was hardly warm to the touch. This is in a room with a temp of about 20C and case temps between 25-30C depending on how I high the heat is turned up. Does anyone think the sensor could be limiting my O/C at 3.6 ghz when I have to bump up to 1.6V to get into Windows before the alarm goes off and shuts the system down without my consent ;)
 
MemoryInAGarden said:
I know this may seem a bit nitpicky but I want to go farther than 3.4 ghz with my 2.4C. At stock volts, BIOS reads IDLE temps in excess of 60C and load temps between 85-90C. When I had the AbitEQ program installed, the temperatue alarm goes off and I have to reboot the system to get it quiet. I reached into the machine while it was folding one day and my Zalman 7000 was hardly warm to the touch. This is in a room with a temp of about 20C and case temps between 25-30C depending on how I high the heat is turned up. Does anyone think the sensor could be limiting my O/C at 3.6 ghz when I have to bump up to 1.6V to get into Windows before the alarm goes off and shuts the system down without my consent ;)
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im not sure about limiting your O/C but thermal throttling comes to mind. high cpu temperture limits overclocking so i would check if those temps are really incorrect! i know you said the heatsink hardly gets warm to the touch but it could be because you applied too much thermal paste (or you have air pockets) and the heat is just not transfering from the heatspreader to the hsf efficiently so i would look into that.
 
Like it was said above, you might just have horrible contact with the heatsink. However, if it's the motherboard's fault, you should be able to set it so it ignores the auto-turn off thing. Before you do that, definitely make sure you are cooling it properly.
 
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