27/C good for my i7 4770k ?

[Robert Hartley]

Hi, obviously cpu temps make a difference but on idle my i7 4770k is running 27/C......seem low to me anyhow this is my first even custom built pc and id like to share my experience a little, i have

gigabyte z87 d3hp motherboard
corsair vengeance low profile 8gb x 1
64gb sandisk ssd
500gb seagate 7,200rpm sata (cant quite remember which model)
corsair cx430m
zalman cnps11x extreme
galaxy 3 gaming case

my rig seems solid and went together fairly easy and doesnt perform too badly but one thing is, my old biostar mobo with a dual core 2.4 went quicker.....im confused, anyway let me know what you think

 

[Sn1992-1361850]

load temps shud be considered for temp checking run prime 95 for 2 hrs and if it stays 10-15c less than tjmax that is 90c then it wud be great

 

[Robert Hartley]

load temps shud be considered for temp checking run prime 95 for 2 hrs and if it stays 10-15c less than tjmax that is 90c then it wud be great

im confused with what you mean?

 

[Sn1992-1361850]

i mean that ur temps are great
just perform the steps

1.download prime 95 and install it
2.run it with small ftts test for 2 hours
3, not the temps that is highest in two hours
4, ANYTHING LIKE 45-70C IS GREAT TEMPS

 

[Azrael47]

Idle temperaturem that is good, more importantly is what is your full load temperature. If your PC is for gaming then play a game for an hour and check the CPU temperature at the end. Also check what your temperature in the Bios is as mst CPU's are running full load in the Bios. Download and install Prime95 and see what your results are like. Realistically staying under 75 is good.

 

[k1114]

Bios is not full load. It is full speed but little load. And every mobo/cpu will run full speed in bios because speedstep/cnq/c1 will not enable there.

 

[Azrael47]

Just woken up! aha

 

[Robert Hartley]

i didnt think it would be full load i was confused when i read that. Anyway why would my old dual core be faster i dont get it, anyone know anything about that ?

 

[k1114]

Faster in what? Running in single channel is probably affecting it a bit.

 

[Robert Hartley]

Faster in what? Running in single channel is probably affecting it a bit.

running what in single channel ?

 

[k1114]

You have one stick of ram. This is single channel. Essentially half the bandwidth of dual channel. You didn't answer what you were doing that is slower.

 

[Robert Hartley]

You have one stick of ram. This is single channel. Essentially half the bandwidth of dual channel. You didn't answer what you were doing that is slower.

ahh right yes i get what you mean now and to be honest the next thing i want is ram, it does seem to lag ever so slightly but i havent got another 50 quid to blow on a ram stick yet, the rig has just cost me 700 without graphicss cards, cd drive, dvd drive, network adapter etc so going to wait for my birthday in october and go wild on finishing it