Overclocking Temps

jonnyp11

jonnyp11

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What are safe temps for a 960t? Right now i'm burntesting at 3.7Ghz with voltage at 1.24, and getting 61C max by HWMonitor. Burntested for 4 runs on very high and got ~164 secs, and ~47 GFlops. And this is with the stock cooler.
 
61C on 100% load is pretty good actually, especially when you remember the CPU will hardly ever be running at 100%. What are you idle temps at 3.7GHz? You may want to consider upgrading to a better cooler though.
 
Idling around 40C, which @ stock i think its min was 36C, maybe 37C, so about 3/4 degree increase for .7Ghz.

And i'm still planning to sell this, and i have the H50 water cooler, but i need to get the AMD bracket for it.
 
If you want to sell I wouldn't overclock the CPU, voids the warranty, but it's already voided now, so.... yep. :/

40C at idle is good, it's not going to melt the CPU or damage it or anything, once you get the AMD bracket for the H50 I reckon you'd be to reduce that temperature by a long way. My 2500K at idle on a Freezer 13 is around 30-35C, and that's air cooling.
 
I forget, what's the stock voltage on a 960t? Mine got to 3.7ghz on auto voltage, and got a little hotter after I set it to stock voltage.

But 61c is too hot, I feel like. You just have the stock cooler on it, with the stock paste? Would not recommend going over .5ghz.

If you want, I have the copper-base AM3 heatsink that I'm giving away for free, just pay shipping. Get that with some arctic silver 5 and it'll be a lot cooler.
 
Well that was the max running intel burn test, and yes, on the stock heatsink and paste. Running prime now to see how hot it gets. Will prob drop it back to stock or just a little higher anyways, might do stock/unlocked. And clapt, remember, i have that h50, but i still need a bracket for it.

Prime seems to only get it to about 56C.
 
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jonnyp11 said:
What are safe temps for a 960t? Right now i'm burntesting at 3.7Ghz with voltage at 1.24, and getting 61C max by HWMonitor. Burntested for 4 runs on very high and got ~164 secs, and ~47 GFlops. And this is with the stock cooler.
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Dropped it to 1.22v and 3.6Ghz and top temp was 58 for 1 sec, was at 57 for like 1 min, and the total time was actually lower at 163 secs. Also pi went up on the 16k, but on 512k it went down .202 secs to a 8.621

Noticed my FSB dropped a few times and pulled my Ghz down to ~3.4, but i have cool and quiet and the performance boost stuff disabled, so any ideas?
 
increasing voltage...increases latency, which is why i dont like using additional voltage. and be aware the h50 wont improve temps a whole hell of alot, so adding voltage might overwhelm the h50, i typically cant get my 955 past 3.6 on the h50, or h100, would have to turn off c&q and add more volts than i want to, so i dont bother, ocing for like 400mhz was enough for me anyway.
 
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FuryRosewood said:
increasing voltage...increases latency, which is why i dont like using additional voltage.
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Increases latency of what?

jonnyp11, if you hiting that temp with that little bit of overclock, you need to back it off alittle. Plus being a stock cooler after you hit a high temp it will just run away and jump way up.
 
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Are you saying 58C is bad at 3.6? What temp should i try to keep it at? Sub 50C?
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What it is, a stock cooler isnt worth a crap at overclocking. The (max) temps on those are like in between 60/65c. It just needs a good cooler.
 
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FuryRosewood said:
and be aware the h50 wont improve temps a whole hell of alot, so adding voltage might overwhelm the h50
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Not in my experience. With my i7 at 4GHz I went from 90c at full load to 70-75c when I went to the H60 from the Xigamek Dark Knight. Both will beat the stock cooler by a considerable margin when comparing load temps.
 
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