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Asus P5K Premium with Xeon E5472 and 771 to 775 adapter sticker??
Bob F wrote:
........ Otherwise, you may have to consider locating a Windows based overclocker tool. Such tools, work with particular clock generators, and it's the luck of the draw as to whether your particular motherboard would work. I think I got lucky once, and managed to find a tool that would overclock one of my older boards. It bumps the FSB a megahertz at a time, and it would take 30 seconds or so to get to the "target" frequency I specified while sitting in Windows. And 272MHz is a weird value. Not a canonical value. I wonder where that is coming from ? Interestingly, that is the same as the Q6600 that I had in it previously, and that is back in the board working great now. I can't imagine any way that value could have stuck through the processor change/bios update/cmos reset/bios to default sequence. I haven't gotten as far as windows on the IP35 Pro yet, so a windows version of CPUID is out on that PC. I've basically just been trying to get the new processor to run memtest at a reasonable speed. I does run it at the 272. although the last test I left it on had 10 or so errors, then crashed. Interestingly, the errors were complete bit inversions. One thing that really has me wondering is why I cannot change the E5472 speed either up or down. This probably is associated with the double boot, which always sets it to 272. No idea why that processor makes it always double boot. Is it possible that the bios is detecting a problem and restoring the settings to the previous fully working settings of the previous processor, even after resetting the bios? But then, why can't I change the speed slightly, even down, from where it does work? If it resets to the processor default, and doesn't like that, it resets to the previous working settings? I'd be really impressed if it was that smart, but then again, it could be dangerous with some processor swaps. Maybe I'll try putting the E5472 in after running the Q6600 at 300 instead of 272, and see what happens. Interesting. I tested Q6600 on this board for awhile with a 320MHz clock got 2880MHz processor speed. I then shut it down, swapped in the E5472, reset CMOS, and booted it to MemTest86+ V5.1. (My previous tests were on 4.1) The E5472 is now running at a clock of 320MHz, showing a speed of 2400 MHz. So it is remembering the clock settings of the previous working processor. I wonder if it is remembering the voltage and other settings of the Q6600 also. ESCing from Memtest86+, it does soft boot without the double boot , and going into the BIOS, I see the 320 MHz clock, 7.5 multiplier in the active "User Defined" settings. The CPU core voltage is shown as 1.2250V and CPU VTT is 1.10V, MCH 1.25V voltage is Auto, ICH 1.05 is 1.05, and ICHIO 1.5V is 1.5V. CPU temp is 47C, System temp 30C, and PWM 38C. It does seem to be running Memtest86+ just fine, with no errors. Memtest86+ shows the RAM running at 480 MHz (DDR2-960) - BCLK: 320m timings 5-5-5-18 @ 128bit mode. The Bios shows DRAM speed as "Default (DDR2-768)" Looking at the double boot in detail: Powering the board up with the E5472 after powering down, and pushing the start button, it boots, displaying the numbers 83, several quickly I can't catch, then 90 and 99, then powers down and re-boots. The on board display then displays 84,83,84,83,84,82, then hangs there, with the green on board LED flickering off every half minute or so. Powering down and back up and pushing the start button, It then starts up correctly, but at the same settings each time. Number sequences are abbreviated - some are too fast to catch. Changing the speed from 320 to 300 in the BIOS and saving the change results in the standard reboot, but letting it boot to MemTest86+ shows the speed has not changed from 320. Changing the speed |
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Asus P5K Premium with Xeon E5472 and 771 to 775 adapter sticker??
Bob F wrote:
Bob F wrote: ....... Otherwise, you may have to consider locating a Windows based overclocker tool. Such tools, work with particular clock generators, and it's the luck of the draw as to whether your particular motherboard would work. I think I got lucky once, and managed to find a tool that would overclock one of my older boards. It bumps the FSB a megahertz at a time, and it would take 30 seconds or so to get to the "target" frequency I specified while sitting in Windows. And 272MHz is a weird value. Not a canonical value. I wonder where that is coming from ? Interestingly, that is the same as the Q6600 that I had in it previously, and that is back in the board working great now. I can't imagine any way that value could have stuck through the processor change/bios update/cmos reset/bios to default sequence. I haven't gotten as far as windows on the IP35 Pro yet, so a windows version of CPUID is out on that PC. I've basically just been trying to get the new processor to run memtest at a reasonable speed. I does run it at the 272. although the last test I left it on had 10 or so errors, then crashed. Interestingly, the errors were complete bit inversions. One thing that really has me wondering is why I cannot change the E5472 speed either up or down. This probably is associated with the double boot, which always sets it to 272. No idea why that processor makes it always double boot. Is it possible that the bios is detecting a problem and restoring the settings to the previous fully working settings of the previous processor, even after resetting the bios? But then, why can't I change the speed slightly, even down, from where it does work? If it resets to the processor default, and doesn't like that, it resets to the previous working settings? I'd be really impressed if it was that smart, but then again, it could be dangerous with some processor swaps. Maybe I'll try putting the E5472 in after running the Q6600 at 300 instead of 272, and see what happens. Interesting. I tested Q6600 on this board for awhile with a 320MHz clock got 2880MHz processor speed. I then shut it down, swapped in the E5472, reset CMOS, and booted it to MemTest86+ V5.1. (My previous tests were on 4.1) The E5472 is now running at a clock of 320MHz, showing a speed of 2400 MHz. So it is remembering the clock settings of the previous working processor. I wonder if it is remembering the voltage and other settings of the Q6600 also. ESCing from Memtest86+, it does soft boot without the double boot , and going into the BIOS, I see the 320 MHz clock, 7.5 multiplier in the active "User Defined" settings. The CPU core voltage is shown as 1.2250V and CPU VTT is 1.10V, MCH 1.25V voltage is Auto, ICH 1.05 is 1.05, and ICHIO 1.5V is 1.5V. CPU temp is 47C, System temp 30C, and PWM 38C. It does seem to be running Memtest86+ just fine, with no errors. Memtest86+ shows the RAM running at 480 MHz (DDR2-960) - BCLK: 320m timings 5-5-5-18 @ 128bit mode. The Bios shows DRAM speed as "Default (DDR2-768)" Looking at the double boot in detail: Powering the board up with the E5472 after powering down, and pushing the start button, it boots, displaying the numbers 83, several quickly I can't catch, then 90 and 99, then powers down and re-boots. The on board display then displays 84,83,84,83,84,82, then hangs there, with the green on board LED flickering off every half minute or so. Powering down and back up and pushing the start button, It then starts up correctly, but at the same settings each time. Number sequences are abbreviated - some are too fast to catch. Changing the speed from 320 to 300 in the BIOS and saving the change results in the standard reboot, but letting it boot to MemTest86+ shows the speed has not changed from 320. Changing the speed Most boards in that situation, not knowing what you've plugged in, wouldn't attempt to start. They would have an appropriate beep code and you'd be stuck. To me, it seems a bit dangerous to be using the previous settings for the new processor. What I can't understand, is why your board doesn't apply canonical values. Clock generator at 100Mhz, 133Mhz, 166MHz, 200MHz, or 200, 266, 333, 400. As selected by the BSEL straps on the processor. Similarly, the VID voltage can be specified by the processor, as it drives out bit values on the VID pins, to set the voltage it wants. And the board really should not be attempting to program the clock generator, if it doesn't know the correct value. It is supposed to rely on the processor strap values to determine that. As for your Port 80 codes, some motherboard manuals have a table of values for those. They're "progress" codes rather than error codes, so even if you decoded them, you might not be any further along in understanding what is going on. The last code on the display should be "Booting OS", and after that point the BIOS won't be writing any new values to the display. The "progress codes" are of more value to the developers, than to us. I haven't run into a scenario yet, where knowledge of "progress" helped debug an error condition. If you wanted to capture more of the codes, you could point a movie camera at the display. It's still going to miss stuff, but at least you don't have to write them down "on the fly". Paul |
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Asus P5K Premium with Xeon E5472 and 771 to 775 adapter sticker??
Bob F wrote:
Not exactly an overclock yet, but maybe?? I am considering buying a used E5472 processor to use in this P5K Premium board with a 771 to 775 adapter sticker. My memory is a pair of 2GB PC2-6400 samsung M3 78T5663EH3-cf7. This processor has a 1600 MHz FSB. The motherboard seems to be speced for 1600 FSB. Does anyone have any knowledge or opinions about this kind of project? Is it likely to work? Will it overclock? I finally got around to trying this processor on the P5K Premium after my problems on the Abit IP35 Pro. I modded the ASUS AMI bios using the following: http://www.delidded.com/how-to-updat...e-in-ami-bios/ Booted it up to bios, reset to default, rebooted to windows. Windows runs for awhile, then crashes. That's way further than I got with the Abit board. Speedfan seems to display temps about 15C below the real temp displayed by coretemp on the E5472. It was right on with my Q8200. Temps, still using the stock Intel heatsink, seem to be higher than they should be, so maybe that is why it crashes. The E5472 seems to have a max temp spec of 75C. Speedfan was showing temps in the mid 60's, so with the 15C offset, maybe too high. The E5472 is supposedly 80W max compared to the Q8200 at 95, so I'm a bit surprised. They seem to both idle around 50C, compensating for the speedfan errors on the E5472, with speedfan controlling the CPU fan speed according to temp. I thought these newer processors were suppost to slow down if they get too hot, rather than just crashing. Could it be a memory error? The DDR2-800 memory should be able to handle this speed, right? ASUS claims this board is good to FSB 1600, which I understand matches the DDR2-800 memory I've got the Q8200 back in now, as this is my HTPC machine, so I don't want it crashing, but will do more playing with the E5472 when I have the opportunity. I'd appreciate opinions and suggestions. |
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Asus P5K Premium with Xeon E5472 and 771 to 775 adapter sticker??
Bob F wrote:
Bob F wrote: Not exactly an overclock yet, but maybe?? I am considering buying a used E5472 processor to use in this P5K Premium board with a 771 to 775 adapter sticker. My memory is a pair of 2GB PC2-6400 samsung M3 78T5663EH3-cf7. This processor has a 1600 MHz FSB. The motherboard seems to be speced for 1600 FSB. Does anyone have any knowledge or opinions about this kind of project? Is it likely to work? Will it overclock? I finally got around to trying this processor on the P5K Premium after my problems on the Abit IP35 Pro. I modded the ASUS AMI bios using the following: http://www.delidded.com/how-to-updat...e-in-ami-bios/ Booted it up to bios, reset to default, rebooted to windows. Windows runs for awhile, then crashes. That's way further than I got with the Abit board. Speedfan seems to display temps about 15C below the real temp displayed by coretemp on the E5472. It was right on with my Q8200. Temps, still using the stock Intel heatsink, seem to be higher than they should be, so maybe that is why it crashes. The E5472 seems to have a max temp spec of 75C. Speedfan was showing temps in the mid 60's, so with the 15C offset, maybe too high. The E5472 is supposedly 80W max compared to the Q8200 at 95, so I'm a bit surprised. They seem to both idle around 50C, compensating for the speedfan errors on the E5472, with speedfan controlling the CPU fan speed according to temp. I thought these newer processors were suppost to slow down if they get too hot, rather than just crashing. Could it be a memory error? The DDR2-800 memory should be able to handle this speed, right? ASUS claims this board is good to FSB 1600, which I understand matches the DDR2-800 memory I've got the Q8200 back in now, as this is my HTPC machine, so I don't want it crashing, but will do more playing with the E5472 when I have the opportunity. I'd appreciate opinions and suggestions. The processor should throttle if it gets too hot. And if it gets 20C above the throttle temp, the whole computer shuts off (known as THERMTRIP). ******* So, we need an excuse for why it would get hot... 1) Heatsink isn't sitting flat on the CPU. Or the TIM underneath the lid is defective - highly unlikely on the LGA775 ones, as they used low temperature solder and the lid s soldered to the silicon die. It's one of the best TIMs there is (in terms of not being defective). Modern processors, like the very latest Haswell, have switched back to "cookie dough" style internal thermal interface material. Some flavors of cookie dough, are not uniform from one section to another. Or even have voids in them. Intel switched from the low temperature solder (so they claim), because the low temperature solder is a "conflict mineral". I think they stopped using it, to boost the profit margin :-) Solder is more expensive than the cookie dough they use. 2) Not enough thermal paste or too much thermal paste between CPU and HSF. 3) VCore higher than intended (shouldn't happen on modern CPUs). My LGA775 processor, I think there is a register inside the CPU which is "range checked". The register is loaded with a number, that drives the VID pins. The only way to overvolt, is by using the offset pin on the VCore switching regulator. On my Asrock board, that's the pin I had to do a mod on, to get some VCore boost for overclocking. The LGA775 I'm typing this on, has proper BIOS-inspired offset pin overvolting, if I wanted to overclock. No mod is necessary on this motherboard. There was a time, when the BIOS could mis-interpret the CPU type, and by using VID override, pump the wrong voltage into it. Your board is modern enough to not be doing that. Only if you entered the BIOS and intentionally boosted above the range-checked value, could you warm up that CPU. (Some BIOS, display the VCore value field in RED, if it's set really high.) 4) The CPU can be overclocked by increasing BCLK. You would use CPU-Z or similar, to verify stuff like that. If Intel EIST (SpeedStep) is disabled, the multiplier stays at the high value all the time, which makes things a bit warmer. There is certainly a history of this sort of funny business, but it's the era of the hardware that suggests nothing nefarious is going on. So about all you can do, is take a lap through the BIOS settings, later, review with CPU-Z, to see if anything is dialed too high. On my new board, I got off to a bad start, when the fan was spinning at the wrong speed. Turned out the BIOS defaulted to "really quiet fan settings". I had to disable fan control entirely, to get decent cooling. I was shocked at the time, that I was getting "low fan speed" warnings in the BIOS. When I thought they'd solved those problems years ago. I used to have older systems here, that would start whining (and stop booting), fi the RPMs of the CPU fan were below 1800 RPM. My new board might have been running the fan at 1200 RPM and I'm getting a warning. I guess I'm happy I got the warning, because it did get me to look at the settings. But I'n not happy with the default behavior of the fan control. "Aggressively slow." Now, my CPU runs cool as can be, even when (measured value) it is burning 156 watts. The worrying part, is the VCore regulator is too hot to touch. I had to fit an extra fan next to Vcore to bring it into range. VCore will still be hot, right at each MOSFET, but the puny fins on the Vcore heatsink are no longer scalding hot. If MOSFETs get too hot, the channel resistance goes up (potential for thermal runaway). Paul |
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Asus P5K Premium with Xeon E5472 and 771 to 775 adapter sticker?? -SUCCESS
Bob F wrote:
I finally got around to trying this processor on the P5K Premium after my problems on the Abit IP35 Pro. I modded the ASUS AMI bios using the following: http://www.delidded.com/how-to-updat...e-in-ami-bios/ Booted it up to bios, reset to default, rebooted to windows. Windows runs for awhile, then crashes. That's way further than I got with the Abit board. Speedfan seems to display temps about 15C below the real temp displayed by coretemp on the E5472. It was right on with my Q8200. Temps, still using the stock Intel heatsink, seem to be higher than they should be, so maybe that is why it crashes. The E5472 seems to have a max temp spec of 75C. Speedfan was showing temps in the mid 60's, so with the 15C offset, maybe too high. The E5472 is supposedly 80W max compared to the Q8200 at 95, so I'm a bit surprised. They seem to both idle around 50C, compensating for the speedfan errors on the E5472, with speedfan controlling the CPU fan speed according to temp. I thought these newer processors were suppost to slow down if they get too hot, rather than just crashing. Could it be a memory error? The DDR2-800 memory should be able to handle this speed, right? ASUS claims this board is good to FSB 1600, which I understand matches the DDR2-800 memory I've got the Q8200 back in now, as this is my HTPC machine, so I don't want it crashing, but will do more playing with the E5472 when I have the opportunity. I'd appreciate opinions and suggestions. I just re-installed the E5472, and modified Speedfan to compensate for the 15C temp offset for reading the E5472. With the compensation, SpeedFan reads the same as CoreTemp. I ran MemTest86+ with no errors, with my ram at both 6-6-6-18 and then 5-5-5-15. Funny thing, memtest86+ on the Q8200 showed the RAM speed as 4394 MB/s at 6-6-6-18 setting. The E5472 shows 3969 MB/s at 6-6-6-18 and 4197 at 5-5-5-15. So the E5472 is displayed as slower on Memtest86+. The time for a whole pass testing the memory was faster with the E5472 however. It took 33:42 on the Q8200, and 30:32 with the E5472, both at 6-6-6-18. At 5-5-5-15, that was 29:33 on the E5472. This suggests something funny about the MemTest86+ speed reading. Just looked, MEmTest86+ has a new version. I'm at 4.1, so I need to get 5.1 and try that. I ran the Prime95 torture test for 35 minutes without a problem (at 5-5-5-15). Core temps maxed at 67C. Interestingly, coretemp shows Tjmax as 100C, although I've found numbers from 71 to 85 online. Intel lists case temp max of 67C, which I'm about 10C under. It looks like this E5472 on my P5K Premium is a GO! I guess it's time to try overclocking it a bit. |
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Asus P5K Premium with Xeon E5472 and 771 to 775 adapter sticker?? -SUCCESS
Bob F wrote:
Bob F wrote: I finally got around to trying this processor on the P5K Premium after my problems on the Abit IP35 Pro. I modded the ASUS AMI bios using the following: http://www.delidded.com/how-to-updat...e-in-ami-bios/ Booted it up to bios, reset to default, rebooted to windows. Windows runs for awhile, then crashes. That's way further than I got with the Abit board. Speedfan seems to display temps about 15C below the real temp displayed by coretemp on the E5472. It was right on with my Q8200. Temps, still using the stock Intel heatsink, seem to be higher than they should be, so maybe that is why it crashes. The E5472 seems to have a max temp spec of 75C. Speedfan was showing temps in the mid 60's, so with the 15C offset, maybe too high. The E5472 is supposedly 80W max compared to the Q8200 at 95, so I'm a bit surprised. They seem to both idle around 50C, compensating for the speedfan errors on the E5472, with speedfan controlling the CPU fan speed according to temp. I thought these newer processors were suppost to slow down if they get too hot, rather than just crashing. Could it be a memory error? The DDR2-800 memory should be able to handle this speed, right? ASUS claims this board is good to FSB 1600, which I understand matches the DDR2-800 memory I've got the Q8200 back in now, as this is my HTPC machine, so I don't want it crashing, but will do more playing with the E5472 when I have the opportunity. I'd appreciate opinions and suggestions. I just re-installed the E5472, and modified Speedfan to compensate for the 15C temp offset for reading the E5472. With the compensation, SpeedFan reads the same as CoreTemp. I ran MemTest86+ with no errors, with my ram at both 6-6-6-18 and then 5-5-5-15. Funny thing, memtest86+ on the Q8200 showed the RAM speed as 4394 MB/s at 6-6-6-18 setting. The E5472 shows 3969 MB/s at 6-6-6-18 and 4197 at 5-5-5-15. So the E5472 is displayed as slower on Memtest86+. The time for a whole pass testing the memory was faster with the E5472 however. It took 33:42 on the Q8200, and 30:32 with the E5472, both at 6-6-6-18. At 5-5-5-15, that was 29:33 on the E5472. This suggests something funny about the MemTest86+ speed reading. Just looked, MEmTest86+ has a new version. I'm at 4.1, so I need to get 5.1 and try that. I ran the Prime95 torture test for 35 minutes without a problem (at 5-5-5-15). Core temps maxed at 67C. Interestingly, coretemp shows Tjmax as 100C, although I've found numbers from 71 to 85 online. Intel lists case temp max of 67C, which I'm about 10C under. It looks like this E5472 on my P5K Premium is a GO! I guess it's time to try overclocking it a bit. I am now running at 3.3 GHz (FSB 1761 - DDR2-880)) without problem. At first when I got to 3.3, the temp under Prime95 was pushing the limits. The default CPU voltage bounced around 1.25V, and since the spec is .85-1.35, I tried reducing that voltage, and finally settled at 1.18V setting, which displays on Speedfan as 1.16V. Running Prime95 at that voltage indicated no problems, and the core temps now stayed below 70C. CPU case temp got up to about 62C. RAM voltage remains at the default 1.8V. I'll keep my eyes open for a better heatsink than the standard Intel assembly, but I'm quite happy with these results. The PC definately is faster. |
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Asus P5K Premium with Xeon E5472 and 771 to 775 adapter sticker??
Bob F wrote:
Bob F wrote: Not exactly an overclock yet, but maybe?? I am considering buying a used E5472 processor to use in this P5K Premium board with a 771 to 775 adapter sticker. My memory is a pair of 2GB PC2-6400 samsung M3 78T5663EH3-cf7. This processor has a 1600 MHz FSB. The motherboard seems to be speced for 1600 FSB. Does anyone have any knowledge or opinions about this kind of project? Is it likely to work? Will it overclock? I finally got around to trying this processor on the P5K Premium after my problems on the Abit IP35 Pro. I modded the ASUS AMI bios using the following: http://www.delidded.com/how-to-updat...e-in-ami-bios/ Booted it up to bios, reset to default, rebooted to windows. Windows runs for awhile, then crashes. That's way further than I got with the Abit board. Speedfan seems to display temps about 15C below the real temp displayed by coretemp on the E5472. It was right on with my Q8200. Temps, still using the stock Intel heatsink, seem to be higher than they should be, so maybe that is why it crashes. The E5472 seems to have a max temp spec of 75C. Speedfan was showing temps in the mid 60's, so with the 15C offset, maybe too high. The E5472 is supposedly 80W max compared to the Q8200 at 95, so I'm a bit surprised. They seem to both idle around 50C, compensating for the speedfan errors on the E5472, with speedfan controlling the CPU fan speed according to temp. I thought these newer processors were suppost to slow down if they get too hot, rather than just crashing. Could it be a memory error? The DDR2-800 memory should be able to handle this speed, right? ASUS claims this board is good to FSB 1600, which I understand matches the DDR2-800 memory I've got the Q8200 back in now, as this is my HTPC machine, so I don't want it crashing, but will do more playing with the E5472 when I have the opportunity. I'd appreciate opinions and suggestions. I did more research about the Tjmax value for the E5472, and it seems that 85C is the consensis. RealTemp uses that value, and CoreTemp uses 100, which I can to figure out how to change. So, Speedfan was initially displaying the correct core temps, and my temps were OK (on the second test described in another post. My idle temp currently is around 32C, and my temps in the hot Prime95 torture test are in the low 50's, at 3.3GHz overclock. This is a nice processor if you have a motherboard that will handle 1600 FSB. |
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Asus P5K Premium with Xeon E5472 and 771 to 775 adapter sticker??
Once upon a time on usenet Paul wrote:
[snip] So, we need an excuse for why it would get hot... 1) Heatsink isn't sitting flat on the CPU. Or the TIM underneath the lid is defective - highly unlikely on the LGA775 ones, as they used low temperature solder and the lid s soldered to the silicon die. It's one of the best TIMs there is (in terms of not being defective). Modern processors, like the very latest Haswell, have switched back to "cookie dough" style internal thermal interface material. Some flavors of cookie dough, are not uniform from one section to another. Or even have voids in them. Intel switched from the low temperature solder (so they claim), because the low temperature solder is a "conflict mineral". I think they stopped using it, to boost the profit margin :-) Solder is more expensive than the cookie dough they use. This is really interesting thanks Paul. (I stopped reading tech / hardware news / sites etc a while back as my financial situation went even more downhill and reading about the latest stuff made me miss not having even close to 'cutting edge' tech any more. Hi, my name's Shaun and I'm a hardware junkie....) I've got a socket 775 E7300 that's always had one core running around 15º C hotter than the other. I spent quite some time messing with TIM, bought an overkill cooler and even lapped the IHS and it made no difference. In the end I put it down to bad TIM between IHS and die. I tried to remove the IHS (like I used to with Tualatins when I was O/Cing them) but it didn't move with as much force as I cared to exert trying. Now I know why. Cheers, -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) |
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Asus P5K Premium with Xeon E5472 and 771 to 775 adapter sticker??
~misfit~ wrote:
Once upon a time on usenet Paul wrote: [snip] So, we need an excuse for why it would get hot... 1) Heatsink isn't sitting flat on the CPU. Or the TIM underneath the lid is defective - highly unlikely on the LGA775 ones, as they used low temperature solder and the lid s soldered to the silicon die. It's one of the best TIMs there is (in terms of not being defective). Modern processors, like the very latest Haswell, have switched back to "cookie dough" style internal thermal interface material. Some flavors of cookie dough, are not uniform from one section to another. Or even have voids in them. Intel switched from the low temperature solder (so they claim), because the low temperature solder is a "conflict mineral". I think they stopped using it, to boost the profit margin :-) Solder is more expensive than the cookie dough they use. This is really interesting thanks Paul. (I stopped reading tech / hardware news / sites etc a while back as my financial situation went even more downhill and reading about the latest stuff made me miss not having even close to 'cutting edge' tech any more. Hi, my name's Shaun and I'm a hardware junkie....) I've got a socket 775 E7300 that's always had one core running around 15º C hotter than the other. I spent quite some time messing with TIM, bought an overkill cooler and even lapped the IHS and it made no difference. In the end I put it down to bad TIM between IHS and die. I tried to remove the IHS (like I used to with Tualatins when I was O/Cing them) but it didn't move with as much force as I cared to exert trying. Now I know why. Cheers, One of the enthusiast sites showed how the users there remove them. This is an example. http://www.overclock.net/t/305443/ih...-and-the-facts "The solder Intel uses roughly melts at 80-90c so it could take a while." If that were true, boiling water would remove it :-) http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-ih...775-cpus_402/2 "the extra solder on the core was scraped off using a plastic credit card" "The system would power on, but sadly it wouldn’t post." Just a small failure rate problem. Good if you start with a bucket full of processors. I like the lapping job they did on the lid in the second article. They claim it only takes 20 minutes to do that, but if I was doing it, I'd need to start with the belt sander, to be able to finish off with 2500 grit in 20 minutes :-) Paul |
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Asus P5K Premium with Xeon E5472 and 771 to 775 adapter sticker??
Once upon a time on usenet Paul wrote:
~misfit~ wrote: Once upon a time on usenet Paul wrote: [snip] So, we need an excuse for why it would get hot... 1) Heatsink isn't sitting flat on the CPU. Or the TIM underneath the lid is defective - highly unlikely on the LGA775 ones, as they used low temperature solder and the lid s soldered to the silicon die. It's one of the best TIMs there is (in terms of not being defective). Modern processors, like the very latest Haswell, have switched back to "cookie dough" style internal thermal interface material. Some flavors of cookie dough, are not uniform from one section to another. Or even have voids in them. Intel switched from the low temperature solder (so they claim), because the low temperature solder is a "conflict mineral". I think they stopped using it, to boost the profit margin :-) Solder is more expensive than the cookie dough they use. This is really interesting thanks Paul. (I stopped reading tech / hardware news / sites etc a while back as my financial situation went even more downhill and reading about the latest stuff made me miss not having even close to 'cutting edge' tech any more. Hi, my name's Shaun and I'm a hardware junkie....) I've got a socket 775 E7300 that's always had one core running around 15º C hotter than the other. I spent quite some time messing with TIM, bought an overkill cooler and even lapped the IHS and it made no difference. In the end I put it down to bad TIM between IHS and die. I tried to remove the IHS (like I used to with Tualatins when I was O/Cing them) but it didn't move with as much force as I cared to exert trying. Now I know why. Sorry for the late reply. For some reason I've not checked this newsgroup for ages. One of the enthusiast sites showed how the users there remove them. This is an example. http://www.overclock.net/t/305443/ih...-and-the-facts "The solder Intel uses roughly melts at 80-90c so it could take a while." If that were true, boiling water would remove it :-) Hmmm. From what little research I've done 'In52' solder (Indium 52% Tin 48%) would probably be best for attaching an IHS to a silicon die if you were going to use solder. It has a melting point of 118º C and has a good 'wettability' of glass, quartz and ceramics. Also I think 118º C is above 'THERMTRIP'? Even though the IHS is glued on and isn't about to fall off you wouldn't want the solder 'sagging' due to gravity in a tower case, migrating away from one side of the die. The solder with the lowest melting point is 'Cerrolow 117' which melts at 47º C. There are a lot of solders in between those two; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solder#Solder_alloys http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-ih...775-cpus_402/2 "the extra solder on the core was scraped off using a plastic credit card" "The system would power on, but sadly it wouldn’t post." Heh! Just a small failure rate problem. Good if you start with a bucket full of processors. But if you have the money for a bucketful of processors why not just buy a faster one? I like the lapping job they did on the lid in the second article. They claim it only takes 20 minutes to do that, but if I was doing it, I'd need to start with the belt sander, to be able to finish off with 2500 grit in 20 minutes :-) I first lapped the IHS on my E4300 a few years back, my last real overclock to speak of. I managed to get it Prime95 stable with a 50% overclock for a year. It took quite some time. I didn't clock it but I'd say a couple of hours (not counting the breaks to rest the tired arm). It was massively dished with high corners and lapping it resulted in about 5º C temperature reduction under full load overclocked, to around 58º. Before that it was over 60º and I wasn't comfortable with it. After a year I bought a faster 45nm CPU (the E7300 mentioned above). Since about then I've had no need to overclock as CPU performance isn't the bottleneck it once was and powerful CPUs are affordable too. However I still ended up laping the E7300 due to the 15º differential between the two cores. These days it's I/O that holds things up. Newer CPUs can do all that I'll ever need (and much much more) so my days of overclocking are behind me. Cheers, -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) |
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