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    Undervoltage, possible problem.

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by spectre89, Feb 10, 2010.

  1. spectre89

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    Hi all, I'm having a little bit of trouble with the undervoltage guide. I've gone through all the steps up to the part where I'm running Ortho after adjusting my max voltage. My problem is that RMClock monitors the temperature up to around 80 C, then goes to N/A after only a minute running Ortho. Is this normal? I've stopped it ever time so far, as I didn't want to run the test for the full 40 min without knowing the temp. Any help would be appreciated. I'm running Windows 7, with an Intel Core 2 duo T5750 2.00 GHz.
     
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    Sirhcz0r Notebook Deity

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    What system do you have? I also have a T5750, and I've reached an undervolt of 1.025. Get another program to run for temperature monitoring:

    CPUID HWmonitor

    Also what voltage did you get down to? Also, since you have a T5750 you may also have an M1530, what this means is the gpu could also have to do with how hot the cpu is getting considering they're on the same heat sink.
     
    Sirhcz0r, Feb 11, 2010
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    Yeah, it is an M1530. Thanks for the tip about running a different program. I'll see if i can get farther along in the undervolting guide.
     
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    Well I started using the other program this time, about when I got to three minutes into the stress test, Core #0 went down to -41 C, and Core #1 stayed at around 80 C. Something tells me it shouldn't go into the negatives like that, or so quickly. Besides the entire time RMClock kept telling me that i was over heating from the full throttle.
     
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    It is definitely not going down to -41 Celsius. One thing I do know is that my T5750 isn't very stable past 80 Celsius, while my 8600m gt becomes unstable at 115 Celsius. How hot is your gpu getting? If your gpu is getting hot and near failure, it may be heating up the cpu. Also what voltage are you currently trying? I've found the undervolting guide very helpful, but it's fastest to get orthos running, and then keep lowering the voltage with it running until it crashes to get a general idea of where you can get it. Then go up slowly from there until it's completely stable.

    Best of luck, and make sure you have the A12 bios, they're by far the best since they speed up the fan at more reasonable temperatures.
     
    Sirhcz0r, Feb 12, 2010
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