AMD Phenom X4 9750 at 55c

[ejwjohn]

I have an AMD Phenom X4 9750 running at 55c at idle, which does not sound like a good idea, The bios does not seem to give any alarm, but the ASUS Probe II certainly displays a warning about over temp.

I am also having a lot of trouble loading Cool and Quiet ......

Some advice suggests 55c is OK and that Cool and Quiet should be removed and only use Q fan control.

Any suggestions please?

Thanks

John

[mac124]

Sounds normal, i recently built a media system around that chip and mine was idling at nearly 60c according to Abits own software, i checked with everest and that showed the individual cores to be around 15c lower.

I would recommend getting a better cooler though as at max load my power regulation ic's hit 100c so i stopped the test (priming) as the stock cooler was offering little or no airflow over them. My case fans were low flow quiet ones though so if you have a decent amount of airflow through the case you may find this isn't a problem.

[Mul.]

I'd say it's a tad high. If I recall correctly, AMD's documentation has stated a thermal guideline of around 65c for the Core temperatures of the Phenom. What are you using to read the temperatures?

[ejwjohn]

The cooler is the stock cooler included in the retail box.
Because of the trouble I am having with Cool and Quiet I decided to uninstall all the ASUS utilities and reloaded them , this time Cool and Quiet did load OK I enabled it via the Bios and reloaded the driver for Cool and Quiet and it runs but I still cannot get the CPU to drop below 2400mhz at idle.

I am using AI Suite and Probe II to measure the temps and now it seems to have stabilized at around 53c...not sure why........

Is there a utility I can use to load up the CPU to monitor the temps at load?

Thanks

John

[mac124]

http://www.download3k.com/Install-Prime95.html

Prime95 will do it but PLEASE keep an eye on the other temps, mobo and pwmic's

[ejwjohn]

Thanks for the link to Prime 95 I will have to learn to use this utility but what I have tried doesn't appear to increase the CPU temps that much possibly it;s my inexperience with the set up.

One other point is that I noted that the BIOS was not at the latest level so I have updated that and now the CPU temps are steady at around 51c

Thanks Agin

John

[mac124]

What exactly do they reach whilst loading the cpu as they should increase quite a bit once you start the test (running the prog doesn't load the cpu, you have to physically start the test, open task manager to be sure).

[ejwjohn]

Ok I had 4 threads running and the temp increased from approx 53C to 60c in about 5mins, so I closed the program down at that stage. I did not notice much increase in the mobo.

Thanks

John