billt79 Posted August 28, 2012 Posted August 28, 2012 Excuse the double post but it seems i may have found the soloution. I found this post on another board Bingo!!! Several Asus boards will thermal throttle with a Phenom at unreasonably low temperatures. That is what you are seeing. This is to protect the cheap voltage regulators they used on some boards. Look around the Asus site, they have an FAQ about this. There are two solutions. One is get a heatsink where the cooler blows down on the board and leave the case open to keep the cpu Tcase temp in the low 40's. The other solution and the one I chose is to get a board from another manufacturer that doesn't use cheap parts like Asus does. Anyway I put an old fan off a pentium 2 cooler on the VRMs and its a lot more stable although very loud. seems I'm going to have to make a heatsink. Least I know what the problem is. thanks for all the help. its still odd how this only affected the cpu inside of windows though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeSoprano Posted August 28, 2012 Posted August 28, 2012 http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835708011 they work and are pretty cheap ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billt79 Posted August 28, 2012 Posted August 28, 2012 http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835708011 they work and are pretty cheap ! Look good but unfortuatley my cooler overhangs the vrms, i have some good ideas for a heatsink anyways, doesn't need to be anything permanent, hoping to afford something a bit better soon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroFight Posted August 28, 2012 Posted August 28, 2012 Glad you found a solution Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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