Originally Posted by Khalmyr
Unfortunately I don't live in the US =(
Another reason to change the CPU would be that even though I can OC to 3.6Ghz at 1.4v, at 26ºC ambient the processor still goes from 31 on idle to 70 on full load... that's awfuly hot considering i have a TRUE with a reasonably good fan and my voltages aren't even considered high...
Your Delta CPU Temp from idle to Load is way too high. It should be 15-20degC at the most. Mine's ~12degC. Either you have an obstruction that's not allowing your HS to make full contact, or one either HS base or CPU IHS is warped. My bet would be the TRUE, since they're notorious for having un"TRUE" bases. I know both of mine sure did. A lap job fixed that right up. Another, less likely, culprit may be that there is too much TIM and it's acting as an insulator rather than conductor. But I think you would have to have a bad mount in the first place for that much TIM to remain between the HS and IHS. I don't want to sound patronizing, but that ain't right.
Symptoms: The idle temperature will seem a bit high, but nothing too out of the ordinary. It's when you put a load on it that it becomes really apparent. I first noticed this after trying to mount a DD MC-TDX on my 680i. It was the oddest thing since I thought I had clearance. When I took it off, I noticed I had actually put a mark in the top of one of the caps. That suk'd. I remounted in a different orientation, and everything smartened up. The next time it happened to me, I was mounting a TRUE before selling the machine and it turned out to be a bad Base. The store I buy from must have got a bad batch of these a while back. Anyhow, lapping the HS base worked well.
And WTH??? Those Asus boards always seem to do well with the quads.My Q6600 1.2 vid @ 3825 with 1.45v (in bios)
It can run Prime95 all night with ambient temp ~19C, but during the day it will crash after 15 mins with ambient temp of 25C.
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