Over the weekend, had another fan die but still...



Fitted all new 120mm fans a short time ago, but was worried about fitting the exhaust fan...





...easy.

@Mike Thanks again, that is one superb cooler.

@Zalster, the R1000 can take 2x 140mm fans so on next overhaul, will replace the 120mm's.



Also on next overhaul, going to take Mike's advice & use MX4 - that would be something having all 8 cores running 100% with temps only 29c :-)

Only problem is I'm going to have to consider a dedicated fan controller as 6x 120mm & 1x140mm is a bit too much on the ears :-(

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20 Apr 2014, 19:26:11 UTC 21 Apr 2014, 10:44:00 UTC Completed and validated 3.33 0.98 557.49 AstroPulse v6

20 Apr 2014, 19:11:11 UTC 21 Apr 2014, 10:44:00 UTC Completed and validated 3.37 0.94 557.44 AstroPulse v6

Nice, could do with some more of those :-)

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That's why I like my Windows Home Server, excellent just for those reasons alone. Currently installing 149 updates, with more to come :-(

Keeping an eye on the temps for now - currently at 48.9 for the cores & 29 for the gpu.

While checking out the system when that autochk issue cropped up, found 1x120mm fan dead with another not running right. As they are the originals from new (2008), have ordered a set of new ones & might as well replace them all.

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I had to do that a while back. I bought an external hard drive, partitioned it and made separate backups of the operating systems and certain programs to it for each of my 3 computers. That way if I ever have to reinstall, I can just copy it from the external HD. Updating would be the only other thing after I reinstall. Good to hear it's up and running again


Zalster

Thanks, as soon as I saw those I zapped the drive (fortunately, not long after installing the new components I booted up WHS & backed it up - phew).

Should have zapped it some time ago as not done a clean re-installation since swapping over from the Win 7 beta.

Boy is this baby fast now :-)

As for boinc, no sweat just copied over the program data info and all eight cores running with max temp so far 31.8 (gpu steady at 29c atm).

Having problems with Photobucket atm otherwise I would have you all laughing.... After reinstalling win 7 ran pc wizard & the temps duplicated themselves - 1st lot seemed ok but the second said all cores running at 255.9 (took a snapshot) :-)

Only problem now is reinstalling all my programs :-(

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Wow, that's terrible... Hopefully one of the other will have better Idea on how to approach this problem. I googled what you put and found an answer from the microsoft forums. I didn't like the first reply but the second reply might be something to try if no one else here has any good ideas.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-system/autochk-program-not-found-skipping-autochk-then/d26cb9ee-5309-4444-8874-f211d39e5b2c

Good luck

Zalster

After a reboot, it started Windows but before the log in screen got "autochk program not found - skipping autochk, seconds later get a BSD "0xc000003a fatal system error".

System shutdown, but it does not, just keeps the bsd showing.

I knew I should have left this till the weekend :-(

@Zalster use the program gigabyte OC-guru that came with the mb.

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I have heard 970 chipsets running very hot.
I would suggest a 990FX motherboard.

But try to disable turbo C1, C4 and C6 state in Bios.
Check for a option CPU load line calibration.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

That MB is stated as being able to run that CPU. I also use Gigabyte MBs and haven't had any issues so far. I was looking back over this thread and note you have air cooler for the cpu. Any possibility that maybe one or both of fan connectors is loose and that the fans are getting all the way up to speed? That might explain why the Temps on the CPU are going high. I don't see on your graphs if they show fan speed on that Air radiator for the CPU. Again, random thought.

How do you control the fan speed on your GPU? What program are you using?

Zalster

Gigabyte 970A-DS3P (Have swapped over to Gigabyte as the last 5 Asus boards pci-e slots died within 3 years)

Booting up this afternoon, within 15 minutes same thing happened with no crunching.

MB/GPU issues? After rebooting, it is now showing this...



...and has been running for close to 30 minutes with no issues (so far), with cores running about 22/24c & gpu at 37c.

@Zalster... Coolermaster Cosmos 1000

Will check later to see if top fan area can accommodate 140mm (inaccessible due to location & will have to shutdown and pull out to gain access to top).

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Somethings not right there.

My 8350 is running at 46°C full bore.

Which motherboard ?

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

You said it has 2-120 mm on top of the case. Are there mounts so you could replace the 120s with 140s? Larger fans to try and pull more heat out of the case. I put an extra 140 on the side panel (mine had holes and mounting spots for extra fans for improved ventilation) to pull cool air into the case right over the CPU and just above the GPU. If those won't work, maybe opening the side panel and pointing a fan directly into it to try and cool it (last resort). My 2 cents.

Haven't had this situation arise on any of my rigs in a long time. Over an hour ago, rig suddenly froze & after waiting a short time resorted to rebooting.

For nearly forty five minutes, it kept getting to the log in point then froze, so shutdown. After letting it cool down somewhat, rebooted and able to log in.

All cores running at 100% & over 54c with gpu at 67c. Suspended gpu crunching and using the web prefs reduced cpus to 75% & 90% use. No effect 10 minutes after updating so set local prefs.

CPU's now dropping to 48.1/50.6c with gpu down to 48c.

Anyone with ideas on how to improve this rigs cooling?

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If it was a cruncher only rig, I would more than likely consider it, but it is my workhorse, so no chance (do have gpu crunching on gpugrid though with very little noticeable affect).

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It will be an interesting comparison between your cruncher with the FX8320 and a single GT630 and mine with an FX8350 and a pair of GTX780s.
I would expect yours to be a fair representation of CPU only processing thus allowing us to see the contribution made by the pair of '780s on mine.

(Unless you decide to shove set of 780ti in which case "all bets are off")

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Never thought I would ever see something like this on Seti... :-)

15/04/2014 19:51:55 | SETI@home | Reporting 7 completed tasks
15/04/2014 19:51:55 | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need
15/04/2014 19:51:58 | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed

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Sweet. Ah the quietness (to a degree) is nice.



Only got a couple of issues (I always get at least one on installing M/B's),

It's not seeing both optical drives and have installed a fresh clean copy of boinc & it has only downloaded one wu ???

Edit: Now downloading 78 with 8 running :-)

Also, with the way the cooler is installed, it just leaves approx. 2mm between cooler fan and exhaust fan....

...nice.

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Thanks Mike. Appreciated.

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I use the fan header as required.
Since one fan is 120 and the other is 140 mm its controlled by MB.

Evenso the thermal grease is important.
I use MX-4 instead of the noctua grease.
Got additional 2 °C down.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Received the M/B, Ram, cpu & gpu on Saturday but had to wait until today to receive the cooler. The gpu is a GT630 2gb, any good for crunching?

@Mike

Do you run the cooler fans from the cpu fan header or do you use separate power for each of them? Also, that looks like a quality cooler so thanks for the tip.

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:-(

Should've waited a couple of weeks....

D15

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