I finally got around to reseating my h80i, good temps??

[deigima]

i'm still doubtful these are the temps i should be getting. this is standard clock i5 3450 (quad core 3.1ghz, standard volts)
http://imgur.com/a/Op5Nw

worth noting was the thermal paste appeared to had been applied using the "business card" technique by the good ol knowledgable chap who knows more than me in the shop.

I allowed the heatsink to lift slightly while i was awkwardly trying to get the screws back on, i suspect this made bubbles. corsair link tells me the h80i isnt going over 24 degrees while the cpu is at 50 deg
(edit- this is a big improvement over failing the occt tests before)

should i try again? tips? (eg if i should wait before trying again or whatever, if i should do it differently?)


excuse my cheap phone's camera, but this is what i found when i lifted the heatsink

after a clean up with phobya cleaning kit

the amount of new thermal compound i've used. its some arctic silver 5 a mate handed to me no idea how old it is, is that a factor?

 

[Excalabur50]

Thermal paste is cheap just get a new tube of MX4 or NT H1 and try again

 

[deigima]

Thermal paste is cheap just get a new tube of MX4 or NT H1 and try again

no doubt its cheap but that means paying the postage from melbourne which is like $30 for tiny packages. unlike UK i cant walk into town to my local pc part shop, i've never seen a retail pc part shop in australia. maybe if i went into CBD of sydney or brisbane..

 

[YouWhat]

no doubt its cheap but that means paying the postage from melbourne which is like $30 for tiny packages. unlike UK i cant walk into town to my local pc part shop, i've never seen a retail pc part shop in australia. maybe if i went into CBD of sydney or brisbane..

fleabay?

 

[deigima]

fleabay?

if you're asking if i use "fleabay" to buy pc bits, then no. i use pccasegear.com
if you're suggesting ebay, i prefer to trade with a trusted website over some dim sim on ebay

 

[YouWhat]

ebay has some reliable people you just have to check them out before you buy, and for the few £ or $ that thermal clag costs, then you not really missing much, just make sure it not being posted from hong kong and you will be ok!

And to answer your question about the Arctic Silver 5, yes it does matter how old it is as it goes off, I had some left in tube that was about 18months old, had idle temps kicking about in the mid 30's, swapped it out to new MX-2 which I had lying about (few weeks old) and now idles at anywhere from 28°c to 34°c depending on room temp, under load it was 72°c against 63°c.

If when you sqeeze out the Artic Silver 5, some liquid comes out with the clag, then it time to get some new stuff, it will do till you can get some decent stuff delivered either MX-2 or pref MX-4, or the Noctua paste, but best advice is replace as soon as you can.

 

[deigima]

ebay has some reliable people you just have to check them out before you buy, and for the few £ or $ that thermal clag costs, then you not really missing much, just make sure it not being posted from hong kong and you will be ok!

And to answer your question about the Arctic Silver 5, yes it does matter how old it is as it goes off, I had some left in tube that was about 18months old, had idle temps kicking about in the mid 30's, swapped it out to new MX-2 which I had lying about (few weeks old) and now idles at anywhere from 28°c to 34°c depending on room temp, under load it was 72°c against 63°c.

If when you sqeeze out the Artic Silver 5, some liquid comes out with the clag, then it time to get some new stuff, it will do till you can get some decent stuff delivered either MX-2 or pref MX-4, or the Noctua paste, but best advice is replace as soon as you can.

cheers for giving a structured response mate. drives me nuts when people give half an answer.
What about the temp difference between my cooler and core? i did a bit of research that its normal for the coolant to not get as hot but the difference seems a bit broad.

the new reseat is a improvement worthy of the 15 minutes it took to do, over the shit job the last bloke did. also the thermal compound didnt have any liquid, seemed pretty consistant to me. as i said, no idea how old it is.

ill probably get fresh thermal compound when i've moved to sydney in a few weeks, especially considering aus post takes more than a week to post the slack bastards

 

[Xrqute]

no doubt its cheap but that means paying the postage from melbourne which is like $30 for tiny packages. unlike UK i cant walk into town to my local pc part shop, i've never seen a retail pc part shop in australia. maybe if i went into CBD of sydney or brisbane..

You can get thermal paste from ANY pc store. You're bound to drive past one at some point.

Where abouts in Aus are you from?

Edit-

Just saw you're from Byron. There would def be a pc shop in places lime coffs, port maquarie, taree etc (I think they're all around you way) but in all honesty you spend more on petrol driving round then what you'd pay for postage

 

[deigima]

You can get thermal paste from ANY pc store. You're bound to drive past one at some point.

Where abouts in Aus are you from?

Edit-

Just saw you're from Byron. There would def be a pc shop in places lime coffs, port maquarie, taree etc (I think they're all around you way) but in all honesty you spend more on petrol driving round then what you'd pay for postage

For an Aussie living in NSW you sure dont know this state. Byron is about 40-60mins from the border of QLD, its like 4 hours drive to any of those you mentioned, in particular Taree is 8 hours.
The usual place to go for retail is tweed heads, but all i've ever seen is pc repair shops.
I'm moving to Sydney soon but ill only be on L's still (late to get license)
Do you know of any stores around Parramatta or Wentworthville around there?


edit-
forgot to mention that occt has been getting weird readings, according to cpuid hwmonitor my cpu reached a maximum of 60 degrees, and occt somehow got 118 degrees from that, not to mention theres always 1 core that reads differently to the rest in all previous tests, any ideas?

 

[barnsley]

Did you manually set the volts?

 

[Xrqute]

For an Aussie living in NSW you sure dont know this state. Byron is about 40 minutes from the border of QLD, its like 4 hours drive to any of those you mentioned, in particular Taree is 8 hours.
The usual place to go for retail is tweed heads, but all i've ever seen is pc repair shops.
I'm moving to Sydney soon but ill only be on L's still (late to get license)
Do you know of any stores around Parramatta or Wentworthville around there?

Since I was 14 always I've been working. Hasn't really been any time to travel. I think I've left the state like 4 times lol

Its so bloody funny you mention those specific places. I just moved from wenty a few weeks ago. To only around the corner at northmead though lol

Uuumm dude there are shits loads of places around ARC Computers, MSY and MWave are all within a 10-15min drive.

 

[deigima]

I'm yet to set volts (i mentioned in OP stock volts)
biggest reason being past few times i asked about finding a baseline to start from and how to judge whats safe, i got no answer so i chose not to dive into something i'm unsure about.

 

[barnsley]

I'm yet to set volts (i mentioned in OP stock volts)
biggest reason being past few times i asked about finding a baseline to start from and how to judge whats safe, i got no answer so i chose not to dive into something i'm unsure about.

Followed the guide on it?

 

[deigima]

Followed the guide on it?

I read the guide and at the time was unable to watch the video. i was unsure where to get the base voltage to start lowering it from, and how to judge if its safe
edit- i can see the cpu volts on cpu-z, but it goes up and down depending on load. in the video he took the voltage while not testing. so i should just get the voltage while cpu is not under load? its like 0.85v at idle, and around 1.030 under load

 

[shambles1980]

occt seems to say your running low voltages at less than 60c..
But it also says your ran the test for 5 mins..
dont do the linpac test. just do the normal cpu test and see if you can run it for an hour.
you can set a temperature it will stop testing at if the cpu hits those temps.

i see it says core 0 is at 0c.
what i would do is install aida 64. then go to occt and tell it to use aida 64 as its Hard ware monitor. (you can also just use hardware monitor that you already have. just click on settings in occt)
are times when occt just doesnt do hardware monitoring to well.

 

[deigima]

occt seems to say your running low voltages at less than 60c..
But it also says your ran the test for 5 mins..
dont do the linpac test. just do the normal cpu test and see if you can run it for an hour.
you can set a temperature it will stop testing at if the cpu hits those temps.

i see it says core 0 is at 0c.
what i would do is install aida 64. then go to occt and tell it to use aida 64 as its Hard ware monitor. (you can also just use hardware monitor that you already have. just click on settings in occt)
are times when occt just doesnt do hardware monitoring to well.

I did a half hour test with the same results, i use linpack because thats what ttl recommended. theres already a default cut off at 80deg.
the readings on my occt are often bugged, from what i gather from the TTL video on undervolting i just need to update my occt, but i might try your aida 64 thing.
Atleast you looked at the results, seemed half the people skimmed the pictures and then shot questions that are answered in OP.

 

[shambles1980]

linpac is like a toned down version of ibt.
personaly i use ibt if i want to really stress the cpu to tears. OCCT's standard cpu test is fine and dandy for most basic stability tests. and is a good 1st port of call.

you can just use hwmonitor if you have it installed. when you go to settings in occt it will let you change what you use to monitor hardware.
i like to use aida 64 because it gives me a lot of readings of different things. and i can have a osd with aida 64 any way.

get occt reading temps from either aida or hwmonitor.
try and run the normal test for an hour. and start from there.
you can ramp up to linpack if you want to after. but ibt "maximum" will stress it more. if you just want the max voltage/amps/wattage drawn and the higest temps used...
Only reason i use ibt is to test my cooling. (with aida 64 running its OSD and i monitor the temps my self)

 

[deigima]

where do i find the occt settings? theres no drop down menus or anything jumping out at me

 

[shambles1980]

il post 4 pics should do the job lol.

you click the settings tab in pic one.
but you also need to gop to prefrences in aida 64
then external applications
put little check marks in the boxes
then set aida 64 as your hw monitor in occt