A little over a week ago I decided to overclock my i7 9700k. After dancing around with several different overclocks I settled on a 4.9GHZ overclock on all cores. Stress test pushed my total temps MAX to about 85C. Which not super ideal it was by no means constant.
Everything appears to be stable and all the games I've tried play great. However I do notice that even at 15-25% usage while playing games like American Truck Simulator and i've seen the temperatures move to 53C on one or two of the cores. I've also noticed in more CPU intensive games like Planet Coaster I've seen the core temps hit 70C pushing more along to 65% to 75% utilization on cores. While I completely understand that these temps are by no means dangerous to my CPU. I was curious given the fact for this clock speed I cannot lower my voltage and given the fact I was still seeing 50C at 20% usage should I reevaluate using this voltage/clock speed?
Specs:
i7 9700K@4900GHZ
ASUS z390 plus gaming wifi
Dark Rock Pro 4 cooler
EVGA RTX 2080 TI XC2
16 GB 2666 MHZ DDR4 RAM
Voltage on CPU running at 1.32 V on 'manual mode'
Everything appears to be stable and all the games I've tried play great. However I do notice that even at 15-25% usage while playing games like American Truck Simulator and i've seen the temperatures move to 53C on one or two of the cores. I've also noticed in more CPU intensive games like Planet Coaster I've seen the core temps hit 70C pushing more along to 65% to 75% utilization on cores. While I completely understand that these temps are by no means dangerous to my CPU. I was curious given the fact for this clock speed I cannot lower my voltage and given the fact I was still seeing 50C at 20% usage should I reevaluate using this voltage/clock speed?
Specs:
i7 9700K@4900GHZ
ASUS z390 plus gaming wifi
Dark Rock Pro 4 cooler
EVGA RTX 2080 TI XC2
16 GB 2666 MHZ DDR4 RAM
Voltage on CPU running at 1.32 V on 'manual mode'