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Damaged CPU

I am waiting for this rad/fan to arrive (I should receive it tomorrow). I hope it will lower the temperatures, but, after reading a lot for the past two days, I really fear the CPU is on the verge of dying... MoBo does not seem to be the culprit, as Voltages measured by CPUID HWMonitor seem to...
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- Post #21
- Apr 6, 2010
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Damaged CPU

Reading of 1.03-1.14 if for stock speed (2.83GHz), under load (not prime95, but games).
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- Post #19
- Apr 5, 2010
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Damaged CPU

I d/l CPUID Hardware monitor at the end of the day to check the voltages I was getting. VCPU Core is min/maxing between 1.03V and 1.14V. Is that a normal reading ?
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- Post #17
- Apr 5, 2010
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Damaged CPU

Thanks for the input, did order this cooler/fan (brand new) from NCIX for 30$ CDN, which is a very good value. Hope it will help lower temperature, I ll update the thread with my results.
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- Post #12
- Apr 5, 2010
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Damaged CPU

Sadly I got no alternative MoBo to test CPU on... I thought about a false temperature alarm from the BIOS also... But I googled to try to find something about 'BIOS wrong temperature reporting', but did not find anything interesting. As a side not, I had some thermal grease left over from a...
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- Post #10
- Apr 5, 2010
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Damaged CPU

Thanks a lot for all your answers guys, On Saturday, cleaned everything inside the case, even disconnected the intel coller/fan and cleaned it properly. I could try to put some thermal grease again though. Other components run at stock speed : Asus P5Q Deluxe, Memory 2x2 Go Mushkin, Ati Rad...
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- Post #8
- Apr 5, 2010
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Damaged CPU

Hey guys, I built a PC around a Q9550 1 1/2 years ago. Specs give 2.83GHz, OC'ed it to 3.40 GHZ without any problem (or so I thought) till 2 months ago. Cooling is provided by stock Intel Fan... 2 Months ago, I began to see random crashes, bios saying CPU overheat error... PC would reboot...
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- Apr 5, 2010
- Replies: 21
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Official - ABIT AT8 Crossfire Thread -

That s the shortest lifetime I ve seen for a board if Abit already discontinues it... I hope they ll still support the board (bios releases) though...
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- Post #128
- Mar 20, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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Any Hyperthreading or dual core games?

I m sorry Tsuwamono but no i wasn t referring any article in particular. I m just an enthousiast working in the IT field (management) and for me it s obvious that the computing power paradigm will shift from increasing the number of transistors on a core to increasing the number of cores. The...
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- Post #37
- Mar 19, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Any Hyperthreading or dual core games?

Oblivion uses dual core ??? OMG I was already hyper excited by the game, now I know that I won t sleep till tuesday... And then I won t sleep either after that because I ll be immersed in this world...
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- Post #30
- Mar 19, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Any Hyperthreading or dual core games?

I m interested too by this subject. IMHO, multiple core enables CPUs is the future of persaonal computing, at leat the near future (Cell 9 cores, Intel 4 cores, AMD 2 cores, ...). I just bought a AMD X2. I m interested in performance increase in multiple core enabled games. Have you tried to...
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- Post #2
- Mar 18, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Hard Drive benchmarking tool ?

Tried it, seems to be good and consistent between tests. One question though : with my SATA2 drive, I reach a bit more than 205MB/s burst rate. Does this seems normal not to be closer to 300MB/s ?
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- Post #3
- Mar 14, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Regarding Abit AT8

It s noty because it s common practise that we have to accept it. Anyway I hope they have fixed most of the outstanding issues with this new BIOS relase.
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- Post #9
- Mar 14, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Official - ABIT AT8 Crossfire Thread -

thks witchfire for the heads up on the soundcard. Just for the sake of knowing it s doable, I ll try my old SB Live 5.1 (which I didn t use for this rig, given the fact that the Realtek codec seems to be better). For the new bios, I ll try tonight to flash. And you guys were right, the fact I...
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- Post #112
- Mar 14, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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Official - ABIT AT8 Crossfire Thread -

n7, glad you put some value on my comments... Didn t know that the multi. factor on X64 CPUs was locked. Lack of knowledge on this point from my part. Concerning the Intel HD Audio fix for x64 OSs, this fix was released by m$ for all MB using the Intel HD Audio codec. And the Realtek audio...
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- Post #105
- Mar 13, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards

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