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Old October 30, 2009, 02:55 PM
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Yeah, so for the last month or two I've been getting astronomically high temperatures...on IDLE. That's right. IDLE. Temps range from 70 - 73C on IDLE over all 4 cores on my i7. I got a Cosmos S with the huge side panel fan and everything. The i7 is seated properly, I quadruple-checked. I have a stock cooler on it ATM. Gonna run out when I get the cash and get a 212+ for it. Until then, what can I do to do lower these damn temps?
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Old October 30, 2009, 02:58 PM
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Old October 30, 2009, 03:00 PM
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Did you try to flash to the latest BIOS? Or are you running the latest BIOS?
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Old October 30, 2009, 03:04 PM
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Running the latest BIOS. "SZ2U" I think it is.
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Old October 30, 2009, 03:22 PM
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If you pull both sides off your case does anything change?
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Old October 30, 2009, 03:40 PM
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Yeah. Sort of drops by 2C, and then it goes up and down after that.

BRB. I tried to under-volt my i7 by .0125V, and now it's running at 1600MHZ.
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Bah, comletely ignored!

Hrmm, have you tried pushing down firmly, but yet oh-so-gently on your heatsink? If so, do the temps change?

I would think that it's either your MB feeding it crazy voltage, sensors not giving the right temp, or heatsink off kilter.
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Old October 30, 2009, 03:51 PM
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Since it's the stock cooler the push pins might not be pushed in correctly. Make sure they are completley pushed in to secure the heatsink. This happened to me with my quad core, I was getting up to 100c on load and then it would crash. Then I adjusted the heatsink and got 30c idle and no more than 60 on load.

Also if you have some thermal paste try putting some of that on.

If problems persist maybe the sensor is broken? Or maybe the i7 heatsink just really sucks?
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Old October 30, 2009, 03:53 PM
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Okay re-adjusted the heastink a little bit during the BRB, no dice.

But now my i7 is running at 1.6GHZ cos I under-volted it a tiny lil' bit. CPU-Z reports the multiplier is at 12 but I set it to 20 in the BIOS. Set the voltage back to the default. Holy crap I'm such a noob.
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Are you sure that 12x multi thing is not just SpeedStep kicking in? Keep your undervolt but try loading the CPU and see if it stays at 12x multiplier.
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