With gaming temps that high, you should:
1) clean out the dust from your case
2) clean the heatsink and attached fan
3) re apply some good thermal paste like CoolerMaster Thermal Fusion 400 or Arctic Silver 5 between the heatsink and the CPU
If temperatures dont drop, then go for a Hyper 212 Evo for around 2K, as saswat23 said.. Or you could skip all i said and go for the Hyper 212 Evo anyway! Its a great investment and will keep your processor nice and cool throughout the torturous summer
1) clean out the dust from your case
2) clean the heatsink and attached fan
3) re apply some good thermal paste like CoolerMaster Thermal Fusion 400 or Arctic Silver 5 between the heatsink and the CPU
If temperatures dont drop, then go for a Hyper 212 Evo for around 2K, as saswat23 said.. Or you could skip all i said and go for the Hyper 212 Evo anyway! Its a great investment and will keep your processor nice and cool throughout the torturous summer
thetechfreak
Legend Never Ends
A bit on the higher side. Just check the interior of the cabinet for dust. Cleanup the dust using a clean dry soft cloth.
Also the processor fan might have dust. If you can, remove the top 4 screws of the fan(not the heatsink, the fan.) and clean it
Cleaning it makes my Phenom processor run a lot cooler
sukesh1090
Adam young
there are only two methods to keep your 955BE cool,either you reduce the vcore in BIOS from 1.4v to 1.275v and this will also help to reduce your power consumption.
OR
you have to buy an after market cooler as suggested by other.atleast you should buy CM hyper 212Evo.if you can spend more you can buy some other high end cooler.
Mine idles at 43 Deg right now and goes up to 60 when gaming.
OCed to 3.6 GHz @ 1.4V and Using Hyper 212 EVO cooler.
Earlier on stock Cooler it use to idle at around 47-48 & go to 70+While gaming at 3.2GHz and 1.275V. Reducing Voltage will give 3-4 Deg delta.
and Phenom II seems to run usually hot seeing all these threads.
OCed to 3.6 GHz @ 1.4V and Using Hyper 212 EVO cooler.
Earlier on stock Cooler it use to idle at around 47-48 & go to 70+While gaming at 3.2GHz and 1.275V. Reducing Voltage will give 3-4 Deg delta.
and Phenom II seems to run usually hot seeing all these threads.
sukesh1090
Adam young
^^
with 212 Evo i think the temps are bit high because even when i oced my 955 it was idling at 38-40C and load was around 58C.
with 212 Evo i think the temps are bit high because even when i oced my 955 it was idling at 38-40C and load was around 58C.
coderunknown
Retired Forum Mod
have you fully cleaned off the old TIM? stock TIM can cause temperature to remain high.
sukesh1090
Adam young
^^
buddy the phenom stock cooler can't handle the vcore of 1.4v,even i faced the same problem.so change vcore to 1.25 or 1.275V and leave every thing else as it is.
buddy the phenom stock cooler can't handle the vcore of 1.4v,even i faced the same problem.so change vcore to 1.25 or 1.275V and leave every thing else as it is.
coderunknown
Retired Forum Mod
increase it to 1.275V. if it still restarts, increase one step further to 1.30V
My 955BE can remain stable with 1.225v vcore - prime95 small FFT and cnebench 11.5 64 bit tested but the problem is the pc won't start after a shutdown - i have to push the reset button to start the pc - the temps really keeps in check @ stock speed with such lower vcore - during prime95 temp never crossed 50c and while gaming it's around 42c.
However I'm currently back again with 1.3v - I don't like to push the reset button to start the pc - so I will try using the overdrive app.
However I'm currently back again with 1.3v - I don't like to push the reset button to start the pc - so I will try using the overdrive app.
sukesh1090
Adam young
Mine runs stable at 1.25V at stock but still running it at 1.275V.mine hits 4.1Ghz at its default vcore of 1.4V
.
@op,
do as sam has suggested increase the vcore to 1.275v and check for stability by running prime 95 for 1Hr if you still have problems then increase it to 1.3V.
.@op,
do as sam has suggested increase the vcore to 1.275v and check for stability by running prime 95 for 1Hr if you still have problems then increase it to 1.3V.
^^ that's a great chip you have - to reach 4.1Ghz stable I've to push the vcore to 1.55v - anyway, tried the overdrive app but the app is no good for me - so used good old bios and set the vcore at 1.25v and system is stable and starting fine - so will keep that for future use.
^^ I think I've said you before this - no matter what review sites say about the overpower potential of VX450 with a powerful gfx card like GTX 560Ti your cpu OCing capabilities will be limited and to OC the CPU you have around ~4GHz you will need to get a PSU - it's always better to trust the specified capabilities of PSU.
BTW, what happened with the second hand HX650W PSU you were going to get ??
BTW, what happened with the second hand HX650W PSU you were going to get ??