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I had the same issue with my board (CPU-Z showing 32-5-5-whatever) and had to bios update to fix it.
What was even more odd was that the bios update apparently failed, yet i'm on the new bios, all the settings are there, its reporting correctly, etc.
It gets even crazier that when I make the settings unstable that the motherboard reports the bios update erro. Set it back to decent but not crazy OC and its happy. Shrug. I would look into it more but its working.
Also running XP with 4gb memory, it only reports as 3.25gb though due to the usual 32bit limitation.
I had to pull the OC from 3.6 to 3 to combat possible heat/voltage issues. One question i've got for you guys. When the cpu gets full load mine jumps from about 35 or so idle up to 60 instantly then over the next min or two reaches close to 70 or so. Does this sound like bad cpu/heatsink contact or a design of the cpu? I’ve got the zalman CU9700 big round CPU cooler. (I forget the exact model number)
My theory is it starts working at full load (using TAT to load it, as it creates the most heat) and thus puts out heat at full load. The heatsink then takes the heat and gets rid of it, but wont actually cool the cpu down so in which case, its not going to get any cooler, its just not going to get hotter, right? Theory comes from the 'do i spend the money on watercooling or not' game… Pondering if I’ll actually see any difference. |