5820K running hot?

[Mugr]

His,
I am running a I7 5820k with a Noctua NH-D14 Cooler and an MSI x99S SLI Plus motherboard. I feel like my termperature readings are a bit high. In core-temp, I am usually between 41 and a masx of 56 at 20% on core 0. Does that sound unusually high?

 

[Quixit]

I'm a bit confused by what you mean here "I am usually between 41 and a masx of 56 at 20% on core 0" is 56C your max at full load, or at 20% load? If it's not your max temp at full load, please post that. If it is your max temp at full load 56C is very good for air cooling.

 

[dudeman509]

If one core is signifcantly hotter than all the others and is not consistently under a higher load, you should go back and check your cooler installation and thermal paste application - might have missed part of it.

A little dot/line of thermal paste goes a LONG way - no need to apply it thick.

 

[Mugr]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cncjhk0np80inym/CoreTemp-Scr.png?dl=0
This my CoreTemp reading. I am not sure how to interpret it.

 

[dudeman509]

So...you are seeing 56C on core 0 when the system is at 20% (total) CPU usage?

What are you running when this happens? If it's one heavily single-threaded task that is maxing out Core 0 in the CPU graph, I would not be concerned about your temps. Your idle temps in that screenshot are certainly fine.