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On March 12 2013 20:28 Cyro wrote:
Another possibility, though remote, your vcore, temperature readings were all not actually real and just a bug, the fan and system were just reacting to false readings.
The core temperature and power readings are read directly from the CPU and so are normally extremely reliable. Also the power and temperature readings do correlate here, and it's implausible that both would fail. The VCore reading may also be reliable for Sandy Bridge, but I'm not sure. The other temperature or voltage readings are untrustworthy because they're read from often badly-configured motherboard chips.
On that note, the IA Cores power reading in the "fixed" HWMonitor screenshot is only 16W, as against 75W for the "loud" version. That suggests that the OP had both a software problem that was causing excessive load, and a cooling problem that's not yet fixed.
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On March 12 2013 21:32 Joedaddy wrote:
Fans and temps started getting high again =/ So, I called the alienware tech support and spent an hour on the phone with them. They updated the BIOS and hopefully that has the problem fixed. All Temps have lowered significantly (down to 45-50 C on the 1 pin that was running hot).
Can we have a post-BIOS-update HWMonitor screenshot? 
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On March 13 2013 00:30 jaj22 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 12 2013 21:32 Joedaddy wrote:
Fans and temps started getting high again =/ So, I called the alienware tech support and spent an hour on the phone with them. They updated the BIOS and hopefully that has the problem fixed. All Temps have lowered significantly (down to 45-50 C on the 1 pin that was running hot).
Can we have a post-BIOS-update HWMonitor screenshot?
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running a tad bit hotter, but still worlds better than when this all began.
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On March 13 2013 00:50 Joedaddy wrote:Show nested quote +On March 13 2013 00:30 jaj22 wrote:On March 12 2013 21:32 Joedaddy wrote:
Fans and temps started getting high again =/ So, I called the alienware tech support and spent an hour on the phone with them. They updated the BIOS and hopefully that has the problem fixed. All Temps have lowered significantly (down to 45-50 C on the 1 pin that was running hot).
Can we have a post-BIOS-update HWMonitor screenshot? + Show Spoiler +running a tad bit hotter, but still worlds better than when this all began.
Meh, running a CPU at 70 c is never going to do any serious damage but it's a little disappointing for a non overclocked 3820 with a closed loop cooler on it. Noise levels will probably be quite annoying too :/
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On March 13 2013 00:52 Fragile51 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 13 2013 00:50 Joedaddy wrote:On March 13 2013 00:30 jaj22 wrote:On March 12 2013 21:32 Joedaddy wrote:
Fans and temps started getting high again =/ So, I called the alienware tech support and spent an hour on the phone with them. They updated the BIOS and hopefully that has the problem fixed. All Temps have lowered significantly (down to 45-50 C on the 1 pin that was running hot).
Can we have a post-BIOS-update HWMonitor screenshot? + Show Spoiler +running a tad bit hotter, but still worlds better than when this all began. Meh, running a CPU at 70 c is never going to do any serious damage but it's a little disappointing for a non overclocked 3820 with a closed loop cooler on it. Noise levels will probably be quite annoying too :/
It peaked at 108 c last night. I've played through 3 of the campaign missions since the bios update, and haven't had a single hiccup yet. Certainly no more of that jet engine at take off fan noise. When this started last night, the only way to make it stop was to turn the game off completely.
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Any chance you could download Intelburntest, do 10 standard runs (its set to default so you can just hit go) with hwmonitor open and give max temps from that?
Thats a more standardized way of reporting temps
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Interesting. That's a much better power to temperature ratio both at idle and load now, but nothing else appears to have changed. Idle and load power are similar, and the VCore reading is still 1.4V, assuming that it's correct.
It's possible that the pump in your cooling system is failing intermittently, but time will tell.
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Today, this happened to me too. I was playing the HotS campaign too.
I have an old computer, with GeForce 9800GT, which I bought from my friend a year ago (I had a sudden need to play SC ).
The computer was running continuously for ~6 days, without problems. Played 70 hours of Dragon Age Origins, in the last ~10 days without problems.
The sudden loud fan scared me, so I shut it down and came back 15 minutes later. Turned it on, got back to HotS campaign, and after about 15 minutes the same thing happened again.
Checked the temperature on the GPU-Z, it was normal.
The fact that we have a same problem could be a coincidence though.
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