Gigabyte 890gpa-ud3h Replace Cooler

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if you are not planning on O/C'ing at the moment I would recommend pulling the voltage back a little on the CPU. Do you know how to do that?

I suppose i can do it in BIOS? What value would you recommend? And how will that affect performance?

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if you are not planning on O/C'ing at the moment I would recommend pulling the voltage back a little on the CPU. Do you know how to do that?

Stress Testing the CPU: To be honest you don't really need to do that, trust me, I've done enough testing with AMD CPU's and you won't gain much from doing that.

Sorry, I removed my post about recommendations for stress testing applications since i figured I might as well use good ol' Google instead of bothering you about it. But you were too quick .

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Yes, you do it in BIOS under the M.I.T. heading and it is the CPU Voltage Control. There are no hard and fast rules for how much you can pull back the voltage before the system becomes unstable but, for example, I have pulled my 1090T back by 0.050 V.
It is really case of suck it and see and if the system does fall over, because you have pulled it back too much, you can always reset it a little higher. I would suggest starting with 0.025V first and if it is OK try pulling back a little more.

As for performance, when it is set correctly it won't affect it and all you will see are lower temps on the CPU.

Sorry, I removed my post about recommendations for stress testing applications since i figured I might as well use good ol' Google instead of bothering you about it. But you were too quick .

No problem. 

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I would suggest starting with 0.025V first and if it is OK try pulling back a little more.

Pulled it back 0.025V and it seems stable. Dont know if I see any improvement in temperature though.

I just played a session of Starcraft2 and the temperature never got above 46°C, normal was around 42°C.

edit: Oh, and i can barely hear the fan (which was the main purpose of the replacement to begin with.

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keeping below 50° C is pretty good and I bet you wouldn't have had that figure on the stock cooler and don't forget, you can always try and pull back the voltage on the CPU a little more  to see if you can get even lower temps.

Yes, the AMD stock cooler fans are pretty loud. When I was using one at full tilt it even drowned out the fans on my 4850X2!! 

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You will need to take into account which way the general airflow through the case is. Usually it is in at the front and out at the back and/or top. Just make sure that you keep it in the same direction so that you don't get any dead air spots.

The airflow is from the front/bottom to the back/top.

Unfortunately i was not able to install my cooler in the correct direction which would be with the fan to the front. Instead I had to mount it with the fan pointing down in the case.

After some time in windows doing simple things (winamp, surfing the web etc) HWMonitor reports these results:


What do you think? Is the result acceptable? Havent been able to try it during heavy load yet.

I know this thread is a bit old, but I had a question regarding your posted image.  I see that you have core temps that are roughly 10 degrees cooler than your CPU temp (TMPIN2), which is 41 degrees.  I’m curious as to what your max temps are on load for TMPIN2, as mine have gone quite high, into the 70s.

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I know this thread is a bit old, but I had a question regarding your posted image.  I see that you have core temps that are roughly 10 degrees cooler than your CPU temp (TMPIN2), which is 41 degrees.  I’m curious as to what your max temps are on load for TMPIN2, as mine have gone quite high, into the 70s.

Sorry but I have replaced both my CPU with a 955BE which is overclocked to 3.8GHz and my cooler with a Noctua Noctua NH-U12P SE2 so i cant give you the information you want.

edit: Also I think that TMPIN1 is CPU temp, and TMPIN2 is System temp. Someone will have to confirm this. With my new setup my TMPIN1 is 5-10C lower than my Coretemps