i7 @ 4ghz, x58a-ud7 - Temps too high.

[tarek001]

Originally Posted by Hooti3

Can't tell you atm.

Getting a UD7 this afternoon, so I will look into it later tonight or tomorrow for you. My guess would be 1.2V or there abouts.

voltage looks pretty damn decent for that clock.

let me know how that ud7 comes along.

[chainbolt]

Originally Posted by ol-skool

Im still getting 48-50 idle on the 4 cores.

Ambient temp in room is 23-24

It's still too high for an i7 given your ambient and considering that you run at stock voltage.

[3Tone]

Originally Posted by Alba

Dont leave any voltages on auto, the board will increase these as it sees fit, which is usually way more than you need.

There is no way you can run 200 BCLK with stock QPI/VTT volts, it may say 1.15v but it will be giving it around 1.5v or more. You will need around 1.35v or more, every chip is different.

Performance Enhance ...................... [Turbo] Set this to STANDARD, it does nothing for performance and will only cause issues.

Set QPI link speed to 36
Set the uncore to 2x +1 of your mem multi, in your case 10x2+1=21

Load Line Calibration ................. [Level 2] This should only be used for benching the cpu at it's max, not for 24/7 use, it's bad for the cpu. Trust me on this, and if your interested to know why, google it.

Really? because I am running 200 bclck on 1.2v (stock) QPI volts.

[dinos22]

there are some chips that just run hot and that's it...high leakage probably

i have a pretty hot core i7 870 which idles at 55C on intel stock cooler and about 44C with a decent aftermarket cooler lol in 25C ambient.......it's way too hot but thats what it is....another chip i have runs like 10C cooler lol

200bclk...yeah it's possible with lower volts but it also depends on the RAM OC and NB OC too....it's not impossible

yuleh the other thing is Asus traditionally overvolts most volts hehe so you are probably running higher QPI i'd say but it's not impossible to get that out of lower volts...........

[chainbolt]

Originally Posted by dinos22

there are some chips that just run hot and that's it...high leakage probably

Like humans, they are not equal.

[Ice009]

Quick question : Where did you guys get your G.Skill Trident from? I can't find stock in most stores.

[3Tone]

Originally Posted by dinos22

yuleh the other thing is Asus traditionally overvolts most volts hehe so you are probably running higher QPI i'd say but it's not impossible to get that out of lower volts...........

Yes Yuleh this may be the case but it still allows me to run 200bclck on the lowest possible QPI. I may need to find some measure points for this board to see what in fact goes on.

[RSix]

hi ol-skool, know you have yourself sorted but thought I post the link below.

I've got pretty much same setup but have setup water cooling, Got the i7 920 d0, giga ud7 and gskill 6gb 2000mhz.

I pretty much followed the setup in the link below

http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/revie...html#post81408

Running it a 4ghz getting load temps of 70c.

[ol-skool]

Thanks for the link rsix! i had seen that post before but i read a few different ones and got settings to try from all over the place.

My clock is semi stable i havent had time to really put in the effort to fine tune it. Im getting the odd blue screen here and there so i have to fix it sooner or later.

Are you using the exact same settings that he is using from the 4ghz post he made?

I may have to bump up my vcore as im only running 1.275 at the moment, standard load line calibration.

Can you post up your template so i can see what you are running exactly

Thanks in advance!

[ol-skool]

Winner!

Just ripped the air filter hinged doors off my p182 case and put them in storage and heaps more air flow.

Also installed the scythe kama bay.

Then to make my oc more stable i bumped the vcore up to 1.306v.

Going to prime it and see how it is now BUT, cpu temps in 23 degree room is now 37-44 on idle over the 4 cores.

More volts and running cooler than before is always a good thing.

I manually put just about everything volt wise into bios too, pretty much nothing is auto now except a few minor things.

GPU though on the other hand, with better air flow and another intake fan is only a couple degrees cooler, 65 idle.

Either this card is dodgy or the FTW card just runs really hot on idle and people are lying about their lower temps. That or they are using much better air flowing cases.

Just doesnt make sense, my cpu is now really cool, and i have air blowing over the gpu but its still that high :/

[RSix]

hey ol-skool,

my settings are exact as that link I posted but multiplier of x20. That's rock stable for me.

Tried last night taking it to 4.2 and the cpu jumped to 90c in about 15mins of running the OCCT cpu test. So need to tweak the volts to get it cooler.

[ol-skool]

Yeah i pretty much used the same settings too, only a few small variations.

Im using a little more vtt now than him, still cant get bios to post 6gb most of the time, only shows 4gb.

Once in windows it shows the full amount though :/

Only running my 2000mhz ram at 1600 now and still no difference. Maybe i have to up the vtt even more to get it to post all 6gb?

Its just such a widespread issue with the ud7 board and gskill ram i am not going to point the finger at dodgy ram just yet when so many others are having the same problem.

Maybe i will look at getting some top end ram later on see if that fixes it.