Quote Originally Posted by devilhood View Post
Happy new year everyone.

Ok, using BIOS 0907. I have just been fiddling with a CPU that has a VID of 1.2125v and now I can finally hit 3.6 GHz stable on air with a horizontally aligned TRUE, but Core Temp seems to be showing quite high temps... Core #0 = 77 with the rest being 75c, 73c and 75c.
After an hour or so the temp rises to roughly 80c on the first core even though everything remains completely Prime95 stable.
I can't actually remember if they were this high previously, which is a bummer on my part for not taking notes.

My NB is now actively cooled with a Thermalright HR-05/IFX and an 80mm and never gets hotter than 37c+.
It's only when it does Test 2 on Prime95 that it shoots up to 75c-77c though, the rest manage to stay at 70c-73c.
The temperature comparison when considering a 100 MHz gap, i.e. comparing 3.6 GHz to 3.5 GHz seems to make a 3c-4c difference on average.

I've also moved from AS5 to MX-2 because of reading about generally favourable results online.
It was fairly liquidy, but I managed to spread it out evenly and thinly using a credit card; I'm pretty sure my application of the thermal paste is fine because I have done this on so many CPU's now and it seems only until I use the Maximus Formula I notice huge temp differences.
That's high, but i don't think you will fry anything at those temps, for the cpu.

but that gain (double???) for your NB is quite something! I'd be in fact concerned about it.... Or maybe you were talking about your core temps instead?