Faulty CPU?

[venom077]

I recently built my new pc and I am suspecting a bum cpu. It's a lga775 3.4 presscott on a MSI 915p neo2 platinum.
I am aware of the haet issues with this line and upon first boot the bios read the proc temp as 89C witch i thought was
pretty fishy. But I kept going and installed windowsxp pro sp2 and updated all drivers and bios and everything seemed fine
However when I started running benchmarks things got screwy. The sisoft 2004 Dhrystone ALU came out to only 4701 mips!
The Whetstone FPU/SSE2 was only 2706/3395! I ran the test several times and achived no better than 5203 on the Dhrystone.
Thats less than halve of my roomates 3.06 533 northwood. The proc temp in windows ranges from about 56C idle in the
MSI core center to 73C idle in Speedfan and thats when I fire them up one after another. I know the cpu is inserted
properly and it has been reseated twice with new thermal paste each time. I'm only running the stock cooler but
it can't be that bad. I've also downloaded throttlewatch and under any type of load test the cpu throttles constantly from
66 to 100%. The PC runs perfect under windows however it simply dies when I fire up UT2004. I play one or two maps
and the computer just turns off. No errors at all. Has anyone ever experienced these types of problems before?


Sorry for the long post but I've built and worked on computers for years and I'm stumped


Detailed Specs

3.4Ghz Presscott P4 LGA775
MSI 915p Neo2 Platinum
512Mb Corsair DDR2
MSI 6600GT PCI Express
Coller Master 350W power Supply
In Windows:Vcore 1.36v
3.31v
5.0v
11.60v(low?)

 

[JerkyBoyz0]

You would be suprised. I would invest in a good cooler. This is why i am going with AMD. When the Intel heats up like they do they throttle down in speed so it dosent get as hot. So therefore your 3.4Ghz turns into 2.8 and goes down down down until it reaches stable temp. Now that a little streched but you get the point. Thats how they operate. They do get very hot and u need a good cooler. Invest in a new cooler

 

[otispunkmeyer]

yes definately need a good cooler for that P4.....please check out zalman they have just updated their CNPS7000 to the CNPS7700 and this time they have dropped Socket A and picked up LGA775 so this think will work on socket 775 intels and will be a darnsight better than the intel box cooler.....considering its nearlu 1KG of pure copper goodness. its 140mm in diameter with a 120mm fan

its thermal resistance is as good if not better than water cooling systems and its cooling performance certainly puts relatively cheap water cooling kits to shame