Upgraded

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by jim45682, Mar 13, 2011.

  1. jim45682

    jim45682 Private E-2

    I recently upgraded my system, basicly all I kept was the case, graphics, and hdd, I went with an MSI 870A-G54 an AMD Phenom II 955 BE, 8 GB Ripjaws Ram and a Corsair CX600 PSU, Put into my ~5 year old Apevia case (not sure the model of case, think its a full tower though) and kept my GTS 450 video card.

    So I installed everything, used the stock cooler that came with the cpu as it looked like a decent one, booted up, fresh install of windows 7, all works good, but when I do an OCCT cpu stress test I see max temps reaching 59c, they hold steady 58-59c for the hour test, idle was 31c, so i figured i needed to upgrade my case airflow as case only had 2 80mm exhaust fans one top one rear, bough some new fans now have 2x 80mm front intakes, 1x 80mm side intake 1x 80mm top exhaust and 1x 120mm rear exhaust, re-ran OCCT and still 58c max

    So i did some research and found that the CPU is actually rated 1.325v stock but was running at 1.4v stock, seems to be a common thing, so I went into bios and disabled cool and quiet and manualy set 1.335v, CPU-Z says its still running at the stock 3.2 speed but now at 1.32v, run OCCT and see 56c max temps, with this CPU listed at 62c max safe temp I dont like getting that close, is this a product of the stock cooler being barely adequit? or somthing else? I have an old coolermaster TX3 sitting here that I can put on when I get some thermal grease, but would like to know before I tear back into it that thats the solution.

    <Edit> this is the case http://www.apevia.com/productsInfo.asp?KEY=X-CRUISER-BK
     
    Last edited: Mar 13, 2011
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    What directions are all the fans pushing the air eg.

    front 2x80mm sucking air into the case
    rear 1x120mm sucking air out of case

    etc etc

    Plus are your cables all tidy and as much out of the way as possible as bad cable management can cause pockets of warm air to hang around?

    Personally I would be thinking of getting a 3rd party after market cpu cooler, although your idle temps are ok, so is your case in a deskspace, on the desk, on the floor, near a wall so the expelled air is not got any space to remove itself?

    a pic or two of the inside and position of your case may help me at least get a grasp of what things look like and what can be changed as I tend to take more time in routing the cables inside the case than it would normally take to build a PC.
     
  3. jim45682

    jim45682 Private E-2

    I went ahead and installed the TX3, it dropped my temps down by about 10c at full load.

    front 2x 80mm pulling air in
    top 1x 80mm sucking air out
    rear 1x 120mm sucking air out
    side 1x 80mm pulling air in

    case is on a desktop with minimum 12inches clearance all sides
    cables are tucked away best they can be in this case, either behind the drive bay cage or inside the drive bay cage at the top away from the fans
     
  4. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi Jim

    fan placement is perfect and exactly like my setup, the drop by 10c at load is good and kinda shows while the stock fan is good its not perfect and did you use a good quality thermal paste as that can also add a drop of a few deg also.
     
  5. jim45682

    jim45682 Private E-2


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