Spring-Summer Ambient high = BSOD?

[tangoseal]

Okay so I am noticing that as the Ambient temp rises where I live, in Atlanta, GA, and in my office here in my home, Im encountering stability and heatsoak problems.

sys in sig

My coolant temps are remaining fair at around 91f/33c avg under load.

My processor cores avg across all 4/8 are around 151f/66c 100%load @ 4.8ghz 1.41v offset 0.055.

My case temp seems to be around 95f/35c

My hard drives 4x black editions are at 115f/46c - 120f/48c.

My ambient office temp is 87f/30c.

Of all the crap why am I popping blue screens. I know temp has to do with it somewhere just not sure. I do have a window AC unit but I dont want to run it all the time just to use my PC.
During the winter and early spring when the office temp is in the 70's f/20's c I can do whatever I want to do with the sys and have no issues. I am sure there is one single component causing these crashes.

I have down clocked my system to stock speeds just to see if I continue to encounter BSOD. I've also deactivated HT.

Any thoughts? Could it be my HDD are just too damn hot? That seems hot to me and can an overheated hard drive cause a BSOD?

 

[Silent Knight]

48 degrees on HDD is still in the acceptable zone,i don't think it's related to your BSOD at all.

 

[tangoseal]

48 degrees on HDD is still in the acceptable zone,i don't think it's related to your BSOD at all.

Thanks, maybe its some crappy power management.

Do any of you use UEFI/BIOS EPU? When I set it to Auto it tends to be more stable. When I set it to anything else it is less stable. There is no way to turn it off.

 

[velocityx]

thats a big temp on those hdds, I have 35C on my caviar blacks/33 on green

even if its true that its a safe temp, I have never seen such temp on a hdd before. not even in hot new york summers.

 

[Silent Knight]

thats a big temp on those hdds, I have 35C on my caviar blacks/33 on green

even if its true that its a safe temp, I have never seen such temp on a hdd before. not even in hot new york summers.

Try leaving a HDD in a case without fan blowing air through it.My Seagate reached 54 degrees.
The Caviar Black is indeed a hot HDD,and placing 4 of them on top of each other are surely making them hotter than normal.But 48 degrees is still acceptable.

@OP:I leave the EPU on manual mode.

 

[SicKlown42012]

As has been said, the HDD temps should be fine as long as they stay under 50c. Going any higher will increase the likeliness of failure, as reported by a report from Google tha focused on effects of age and heat on HDD in server clusters.

I think it might be an issue with the motherboard, specifically the voltage regulator modules(VRMs). You don't mention having that under water, so the higher ambient temps could be pushing them to instability.

 

[martinje]

Hello my fellow georgian. Im in atlanta also, but live down south near the motor speedway. I kid you not, the house will be 77F and when I walked in the office it was 85F. My solution, I bought an indoor AC unit, my home association wont let me have a windows unit. Even at 85F my surround 480 in SLI never crashed, I would be un-comfortable because I could feel the heat. Now with the Ac unit, I can game all I want. I only turn on the unit when I start playing, on idle the office stays at 79F or so.

Have you open up the case and made sure you clean out all the dust bunnies? The next thing I would recomend is to leave your case open.

Post a pic of your case and how your pc is situated in the office.