CPU-Z displays wrong multiplier?

[smashedpumpkins]

Dangit! After 2 hours I got a BSOD. Completely out of the blue too... Temps were only like 55 degrees. I upped the volts 1 notch. Booted back up started prime. Funny enough CPU-Z now says 9x multiplier!

EDIT: Lasted 24 minutes before thread 4 went out. Reached 70 degrees. Any ideas what might have caused this? My vcore is only 1.38.

 

[veg1992]

did your thermalpaste set in yet?

 

[zedman3d]

Doesnt Prime use the wrong type of stress or something, i think i might just be wondering off on my own path but i swear i heard someone say that..... o well.:freak:

 

[Poizen22]

maybe you have like a smart over clock thing with your mobo like i do, i kmnow if i set my voltage to low to boot, my mother board will automatically set the core clock to the recomended speed for the voltage, and vice versa.

 

[smashedpumpkins]

You know I do have a question. Was I supposed to put the paste over the entire processor? Corner to corner? I think I put it on most of it, but not completely... And I do have a heck of a lot of wires in my case. I used the paste that came with my tuniq. Should I take it off and buy some better paste? If so what paste? As for the restriction thing AMD I have no clue. Interesting, how can I find out if this is the case?

Also Vernong, what do you mean by set in? Was I supposed to let it dry or something?

 

[veg1992]

like use it for 70hours or something, and most Arctic Silver and MX thermal pastes will go to optimal temperatures, because it "cures" (thats the actual term)

 

[IBM/PS1]

You know I do have a question. Was I supposed to put the paste over the entire processor? Corner to corner? I think I put it on most of it, but not completely... And I do have a heck of a lot of wires in my case. I used the paste that came with my tuniq. Should I take it off and buy some better paste? If so what paste? As for the restriction thing AMD I have no clue. Interesting, how can I find out if this is the case?

Also Vernong, what do you mean by set in? Was I supposed to let it dry or something?

From what i understand you put a thin line horizontally across the CPU (for quad core). There is no need for spreading, you just apply it and plop the cooler on. FYI i have the exact same heatsink and cpu and my cpu idle is around 30C.

Dunno if that helps. If i had to guess... Too much thermal paste.

When the heatsink heats up it loosens the paste and spreads it.

 

[smashedpumpkins]

Ah I spread it in a circlish in the middle. I'm not sure if it's been 70 hours, but it's probably been 40-50+

 

[IBM/PS1]

40-50 with a 3.6 ghz OC isn't bad is it? I think that's pretty good.

 

[Poizen22]

its average mine usually high 40's or low 50's, cpu-z seems iffy, the other day it rerad my proc as a fsb at 266 and my multy at 9, i was liek wtf, i reebooted whent to the bios, and everything was still set at 9x 400, so i restarted the comp got back into windows, ran cpu-z and it was at 400x 9 again, i dont get it. i dont have speed step enable either.