If you choose Eco it's all disabled, andf if you choose OC Genie II it just does it's own (very stupid stuff IMHO) to pretty much every setting imaginable. Side note, fan speed control and all that ONLY appears to work properly if you set the board to standard mode (at least on mine). That stopped the fans on my Zalman CPUcooler from spinning it's fan at 4000 RPM. Then set the lowest CPU Fan Speed to Zero (It won't ever go to zero in real life, dw). Go into the BIOS and set the CPU target temperature to 70C (It's the highest). The motherboard seems to want to set the fan speed as fast as possible at some stupidly low temps at default settings. It fixed my temp sensors calibration and can be downloaded and installed really easily using MSI's Live Update 5 software on your CD.Ībout the fan speed control, this thing took me some getting used too.

Latest release is 19.9 and it only come out about 3-4 weeks back. You have the same motherboard as me, and seem to be having some of the issues I first ran into.įirstly, update that BIOS. It also sounds like AOD and Coretemp aren't reading the temperature correctly (they should match what the BIOS reports).ĭoes the HSF get hot to the touch when idling in the BIOS? What core voltage is being reported in the BIOS? Either the HSF is incorrectly installed, the temp sensor is messed up, or the mobo is messed up (and is over-volting the CPU). 66C idling in the BIOS isn't right variation between individual CPUs isn't enough to cause that. Yeah, the stock HSF can be a bit loud, but that's beside the point.

What's happening with AOD and Coretemp however, is strange in that temps swing back and forth from ~19C to ~26C in ~1 sec intervals. To answer your questions, I'm using the latest BIOS (it came by default with the board), and in the BIOS UEFI it's cranking all the way up to 5000RPM+ and temps reach 66C, which never show up in AOD and Coretemp, although I suspect that's pretty much because the chip is running full throttle in the BIOS, when CnQ is yet to kick in. it's quite possible to get a hotter sample, isn't it? My main concern here is that I got a comparably hotter sample, and the fan is cranking all the way up to cool it. Just curious, did you ever use the stock HSF and noticed that it was pretty loud as well? Mine is almost deafening under full load.

Yeah, I read your post about getting an FX a few months back.

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