Hi all,
I'm currently running a 10600K, and I'm a little concerned about the temps I'm seeing. I'll try to provide as much information as I can here.
I'm running a mild 4.8ghz all core overclock on the 10600K. Ring multiplier is 44x. Not running an AVX offset. Voltage in bios is set to 1.280 but with LLC settings, actual vcore under load is about 1.260. As far as the cooler, I'm running a Noctua D15-S. Only using the one fan for right now. Motherboard is an MSI Z490 Tomahawk. Case is a Meshify C with 3x 120mm fans. Two in the front, one for rear exhaust. I'm wondering if I've just reached the limits of this cooler(which I find a little hard to believe) or if I should go ahead and re-paste and remount the cooler. I'm leaning towards the second, but I'd love to hear from other 10600K users that are overclocking on air, to see what kind of temps they're seeing in applications like Prime95 26.6, Cinebench R20, Blender, etc. The reason I'm leaning towards the second option is that when I initially built this pc last week, I noticed temps that were even higher than what I'm currently seeing and I knew something had to be wrong. It turned out, the bottom mounting screw on the heat-sink had about 3/4 of a turn left to go before it bottomed out, and I must have had an air-gap between the cold-plate and IHS because when I tightened the screw until it bottomed out, I saw temps improve. However the computer ran like that for 2 days or so before I recognized the problem and I'm wondering if that slightly uneven pressure may have screwed up my thermal paste application by affecting the overall coverage on the IHS...and the temps I'm still seeing could be a byproduct of that. Or, if I really am just thermally limited by my cooling solution.
Here are some temps:
Ambient room: 22-23c.
Idle: 35-38c
Prime95 26.6: 85-88C
Cinebench R20: 78-82C
AIDA64: 65-68C
Battlefield 5 Multiplayer(Probably the most CPU intensive game I have installed): 68-70C
Other single-threaded games that aren't as intensive: High 50s.
My CPU package power under P95 26.6 load is 140w. This cooler is definitely rated for way more than that, I believe 230w at least. Originally, I was shooting for a 5.0ghz all core overclock with 1.35 volts or less depending on my luck with the lottery, but currently I just don't think I have any headroom to do it thus why I'm running 4.8 at the moment. I have seen other reviewers of the 10600K claim that running past 4.8 on air with this chip wasn't recommended and maybe they're right, but I was skeptical of that when I heard it initially and still sort of am.
Either way, I'm going to pull the cooler off tomorrow, and remount it with fresh paste just to sate my curiosity here. If anyone is running a 10600K on air, I'd love to hear your overclocking results and temperatures. I know the temps I'm seeing under my typical use-case, which is gaming, are well within safe limits and I don't have any concerns of potential damage to the cpu. Just wondering whether I should be seeing more headroom with my cooling solution.
I'm currently running a 10600K, and I'm a little concerned about the temps I'm seeing. I'll try to provide as much information as I can here.
I'm running a mild 4.8ghz all core overclock on the 10600K. Ring multiplier is 44x. Not running an AVX offset. Voltage in bios is set to 1.280 but with LLC settings, actual vcore under load is about 1.260. As far as the cooler, I'm running a Noctua D15-S. Only using the one fan for right now. Motherboard is an MSI Z490 Tomahawk. Case is a Meshify C with 3x 120mm fans. Two in the front, one for rear exhaust. I'm wondering if I've just reached the limits of this cooler(which I find a little hard to believe) or if I should go ahead and re-paste and remount the cooler. I'm leaning towards the second, but I'd love to hear from other 10600K users that are overclocking on air, to see what kind of temps they're seeing in applications like Prime95 26.6, Cinebench R20, Blender, etc. The reason I'm leaning towards the second option is that when I initially built this pc last week, I noticed temps that were even higher than what I'm currently seeing and I knew something had to be wrong. It turned out, the bottom mounting screw on the heat-sink had about 3/4 of a turn left to go before it bottomed out, and I must have had an air-gap between the cold-plate and IHS because when I tightened the screw until it bottomed out, I saw temps improve. However the computer ran like that for 2 days or so before I recognized the problem and I'm wondering if that slightly uneven pressure may have screwed up my thermal paste application by affecting the overall coverage on the IHS...and the temps I'm still seeing could be a byproduct of that. Or, if I really am just thermally limited by my cooling solution.
Here are some temps:
Ambient room: 22-23c.
Idle: 35-38c
Prime95 26.6: 85-88C
Cinebench R20: 78-82C
AIDA64: 65-68C
Battlefield 5 Multiplayer(Probably the most CPU intensive game I have installed): 68-70C
Other single-threaded games that aren't as intensive: High 50s.
My CPU package power under P95 26.6 load is 140w. This cooler is definitely rated for way more than that, I believe 230w at least. Originally, I was shooting for a 5.0ghz all core overclock with 1.35 volts or less depending on my luck with the lottery, but currently I just don't think I have any headroom to do it thus why I'm running 4.8 at the moment. I have seen other reviewers of the 10600K claim that running past 4.8 on air with this chip wasn't recommended and maybe they're right, but I was skeptical of that when I heard it initially and still sort of am.
Either way, I'm going to pull the cooler off tomorrow, and remount it with fresh paste just to sate my curiosity here. If anyone is running a 10600K on air, I'd love to hear your overclocking results and temperatures. I know the temps I'm seeing under my typical use-case, which is gaming, are well within safe limits and I don't have any concerns of potential damage to the cpu. Just wondering whether I should be seeing more headroom with my cooling solution.
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