Hot temps within normal range?

Got the new ODE lvl 3 unpacked. Loving it.

However, my H80 corsair water cooler was missing the front plastic piece around the fan control button on the CPU mount itself. I called DS, and they'll send me a new one, so I'm guessing it's only cosmetic. ie. I can see a circuit board with bright white LED inside the H80, whereas I should see a shiny Corsair logo.

So I decided to stress test a bit, and ran Prime95 & Furmark for 10 minutes: system did not melt down, cool.

However, the CPU cores reached 93C in that time. The GPUs were at 88C/85C SLI. Are these temps within the expected range you guys see on your systems? BTW, DS overclocked my 2600k to 4.5ghz.

Room temp is probably 72. But the ODE is heating it up nicely into at least the mid 70s.

OpenHWMonitor shows the Sabertooth P67 board reports the CPU VCore is 1.336 to 1.344V during Prime95.

From a cold boot this morning, if I run Prime95 on its own (10 min), the CPU temps max at a much more reasonable 77C.

Adding Furmark in (10 min), and the GPU fans spin up to 62%. CPUs now max at 92C. GPUs are at 88C/85C SLI.

Tons of warm air coming out of the back of the CPU cooler fan outside the case, so I think that's working. Same with the power supply fan and top case fan. Lots of ventilation around the case.

Unfortunately, I don't have time to run longer tests, as I suspect the temps may keep rising. The fact that the CPUs are getting this hot after only 10 or so minutes of stress testing has me concerned.

Well here's the thing: I ordered this machine from DS so that I wouldn't have to debug & tweak voltage.

Either my H80 cooler's been damaged in transit, or perhaps DS didn't run Furmark + Prime95 before sending it out to me...

Running those apps for 10 min don't mean anything, if you want to know what your pc can do you need to run those apps for much longer.

as rice said you can adjust your fans for the gpu, that is something we have to do ourselves cause our room temp is different then DS's.

but your cpu temp is not acceptable, load max temp needs to be below 85c.

Good cause that max cpu temps is too high.

keep us informed

i think alex means C.

Played Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for about 15 minutes:

CPU max: 72C
GPU max: 86C/79C SLI

According to a tech @ DSO, the burn-in testing is performed with the cooler speed maxed (level 3). It was shipped to me on level 1, which is already plenty loud. So I suppose I'm getting high temps on the CPU b/c I don't have the H80 set high. Level 2 already sounds like a truck engine, and level 3 sounds like a jet engine, wow, no wonder DSO ships it at level 1. But anyway, just to give DSO's #s a grain of salt, they're taken with the fan blasted at a level most customers I think would consider way too loud.

So I hope the above Battlefield temp #s above are normal, b/c I can't imagine running the H80 at anything but level 1 speed.

I re-seated my video cards, so let's hope that fixes my Windows error that "your system is running too slow".

Here's a hack around this issue: at least for games I know it fails on beforehand, I can mark those EXEs as "don't use Aero":

http://tr1x.com/how-to-disable-color-scheme-error-message.html

MSI Afterburner, task manager, Chrome, Crysis Warhead.

Originally posted by copen MSI Afterburner, task manager, Chrome, Crysis Warhead.

well chrome could be your problem, but what I was asking for is the number process running, which you find in task manager.

DST,

61 processes, 693 threads, 15022 handles. Here's a screenshot of the background processes while I typed this post.

That's just a tool I wrote, similar to taskmgr, but customized for how I like it.

Here's a snapshot of the top processes sorted by CPU mhz used, after cold boot, having Steam & Chrome started up.

Alex,

I meant to say that the whole boot takes 30 seconds, of which only 5 is after POST. Therefore, POST (pre BIOS) is taking a good 25 seconds. Is there any configuration in the BIOS to reduce that?

DST,

No problem. It forces me to the desktop under crysis within 90 seconds, so here you go:

You are getting that the pc performance is low, this means it has to do with system resources.

your first problem is chrome, your system is running extra 14 apps which all happen to be chrome, its a resource hug.

try using a different browser like opera or ff, I have opera open with over 50 tabs and am using less resources then you are with chrome and 14 tabs.

you have superfetch enabled or disabled?

You are mistaken, your system is running 14 apps, each process is independent and listed independently cause just like an app, it takes up resources, it is for that reason why when one tab crashes they all don't, cause each is running as if its an app/process, with its own threads.

also as I mentioned you are using more resources with 14 tabs then I am with over 50 tab and chrome browsing capabilities do not come close to other browsers like opera.

instead wasting your resources for a crappy browser like chrome why not get a good browse that does not crash to being with and uses much much less resources, I have over 50 tabs open all the time and I can't tell you the last time my opera crashed.

that is one of many reason why chrome is a stupid browser, its inferior to others, uses the most resources and instead making a stable browser, they have put the burden on the users of the browser by talking up their resources.

they don't share anything that is why they are independent.check out the pid for your processes you will see they have different pids.








threads are not listed as processes. if you see a process that is an independent process taking up resources.

superfetch is a part of your os and with ssd its best to disable it.

look for its service and see if its running.

Edited by DST4ME - 08 Oct 2011 at 9:02pm

It should but it does not hurt to check. just fyi, if install was on hdd then you clone hdd to ssd, win7 won't change anything.

don't run chrome and game and tell me if win7 still gives you the resource error.

Edited by DST4ME - 08 Oct 2011 at 9:00pm