i5 760 / Hyper TX3 hot temps

[dmangadu]

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm new to the forum so please forgive my newbness.

 

I wanted to get some insight on my current temps. On stock CPU and RAM settings I'm getting 30C idle and 70C load temps about about a minute using prime95. My ambient temp is 20C. I have tried to resit my heatsink fan many times and this is the lowest temps I can get.

 

I overclocked my RAM using the XMP setting in my Bios which increased my idle to about 45C and my load to 70C +, I havent pushed it further as I just turn off prime95. I then overclocked my CPU to 3.6ghz using Turbo Evo (I know its not recommended but I tried it as I have tried to read and research how to manually overclock the CPU in bios but it is very confusing to me). Since these temps are way too hot from what I read online I have appropriately set everything back to default settings in my bios.

 

Does anyone know what can be the problem with my current temps and how I can fix them so I can overclock my rig?

 

Also, I have the fans running at 100% through all the tests as I don't mind the noise levels in order to get lower temps. My case currently has 3 Fans (2 on top, 1 on the back)

 

Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated! :cool:

 

Here are my specs:

Lian Li K62 tower

ASUS P7P55D-E PRO

Intel i5-760 2.8ghz

Master Cooler Hyper TX3 (1 fan attached, using Artic Silver 5)

ATI HD Radeon 4830

GSKILL 4gb 1600 DDR3 Ram

ANTEC TP-750 BLUE 750W

ASUS 21.5 LCD Monitor

[n0b0dy]

You have a very nice setup. If you can get a graph of speed vs voltage overclock settings for this setup, you'll have an easy time overclocking. I think your initital voltages were high! Remember that cold air rests at bottom, and hot air rises! So, keep fans blowing in air at the bottom, and fans blowing out air on top! Good Luck! Please search for guides on google and on this forum! You'll find a lot of people with exact same setups trying for similar results. All the best!

Edited October 7, 2010 by n0b0dy