Core i7 920 Temps?

Venares · 10 Jun 2009 at 00:19

Auto settings are the devils work.
Set everything manualy and you'll find everything will run cooler and more stable.

earlyflash · 10 Jun 2009 at 07:16

Agreed, but I don't really have much of a guide to what they should actually be? Any ideas?

philjohn · 10 Jun 2009 at 08:11

earlyflash said:
Agreed, but I don't really have much of a guide to what they should actually be? Any ideas?

Memory manufacturer normally has recommended values (my corsair stuff in my C2D desktop recommended 1.8v to get CL4 for instance).

PaulyD · 10 Jun 2009 at 08:32

The memory will be upto 1.65v and will probably state 1.6v or 1.65v as the recommended setting

RoEy · 10 Jun 2009 at 10:10

earlyflash said:
So, I re-applied the Arctic silve 5 using the instructions on their website (let the heatsink do the movement, don't scrape it over yourself) and get better values:

Stock Speed, Stock Cooler
idle: 36C
load: 72C

Huge improvement.

Still goes over 100C at 3.0GHz though

I have the C0 stepping and I get better temps than that at stock. I havent overclocked it yet. Water Cooling bits coming this week so I'll have a play then.

My idle is low 30's and load is low 60's

RoEy

CK61938 · 10 Jun 2009 at 10:41

I used both the Noctua and TRUE on my 920. Neither were able to get my idle temps below 40C. In the end I went liquid cooling and its the best thing I ever did

My temps on idle can be as low as 36C (and it's OC'd to 4.3GHz but have left it at 4.0GHz). When running Prime on 4.3GHz the temps would go as high as mid 70s. But I do believe that the higher the vCore the hotter the CPU will get. So keep this in mind when you overclock. I noticed when I OC'd my CPU to 4.5GHz (woop woop lol), the vCore had to be raised to over 1.4v and temps on idle were in the mid 40s to a 10C jump from 4.0GHz.

earlyflash · 10 Jun 2009 at 16:19

Stop it! I'll end up buying a liquid cooling solution if you keep that up.

Stanman67 · 10 Jun 2009 at 20:20

Buy the titan fenrir, kept my do at 51'c at load.

kevintaper · 10 Jun 2009 at 23:23

tbh guys youre idle temps owe a lot to how good youre case is for coolling, youre thermal paste, how good and level youre heatsink sits on cpu etc, the point is whats the point off overclocking etc, if you got a crap £30 case with like 2 80mm fans, if you have theres no way youre gonna idle a i7 920 below 40c in most cases , anyways just my 2 pence worth

PaulyD · 11 Jun 2009 at 00:26

idle is illrelavant though, all about load temps

BigBruiserAl · 12 Jun 2009 at 09:11

Adding to this, i built outside the case in small office with room temps of 25c. At 3.1ghz 1.25vcore(auto) my D0 primes at 65c how would putting in the antec1200 effect temp you think

smelly · 13 Jun 2009 at 00:23

kevintaper said:
just a small note guys, you should be able to run a co 920, with a good cooler on 3.4ghz turbo on, at 1.20volts, and defo on a DO spec chip, just manually adjust cpu volts as auto, always overvolts, MY CO 920 ideles with a TRUE extreme @ about35 to 40 @ 3.4ghz with 1.20 volts, , saying that ive got a collermatser cm storm sniper case with a few extras fans than normal, but always manually adjust volts never auto when ocing.

Can you give me your bios profile please? what setting you have ect.

thank if you can

jamiehavok · 13 Jun 2009 at 10:05

earlyflash said:
Hi all,

Just put in my new Core i7 920 D0 and getting surprisingly high temps at stock.

This is a retail chip with the stock cooler on it.

At Stock speed, idle is ~50C and Prime95 load puts it to 87C

When I oc'd it to 3.5GHz, Prime 95 put the temps over 100C and the machine shutdown.

I took off the thermal paste on the chip and replaced with arctic silver 5, but similar sort of issues..

Is this normal sorts of temps, or am I doing something wrong here.

MB is Gigabyte UD5

Cheers!

with my akasa nero with rather shoddily applyed thermal paste i reckon i get about 40 when idle and it will peak at 75 ish under 100% load at stock, so probably sounds about right

spitzoid · 13 Jun 2009 at 12:58

CoreTemp fails. RealTemp F.T.W!

soundb0y · 13 Jun 2009 at 13:04

Ive got the d0 in an antec 1200 with a noctua cooler, it seems to idel at 45-50. Il do a stress test to see how high they go.

soundb0y · 13 Jun 2009 at 13:30

With prime 95 it gets to about 85. Is this about right?

reflux · 13 Jun 2009 at 13:31

85 is a little bit toasty, as they throttle at about 90c (or at least mine did).

BigBruiserAl · 13 Jun 2009 at 14:41

Idd auto setting are the devils works droped my vcore to 1.25 in the bios and get 65c load on prime at 3.6ghz

Mr.Nick · 13 Jun 2009 at 15:50

I would buy an aftermarket cooler just to be safe.

Titan Fenrir?

DeadMan · 15 Jun 2009 at 17:10

My C0 idles at 38c and tops out at 65c (o/c 3.6ghz) I run default voltage.