Hi all. Hoping yo can help me with whether I need to upgrade my cooling or not.... I am thinking of upgrading my Silverstone SG05 case anyway as this whole palavar has been a right chew with the (lack of) access in this case and the CPU cooler max height is limited to something like the Noctua LH-12S.
So... my problem began when, earlier this year, I upgraded my PC with the highest non-k processor my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-H97N-WIFI mini-ITX) supports, the 4790 (non-k). Since this upgrade I have suffered a number of random crashes with the display going purple or green, buzzing from the audio output which has required a hard reboot to resolve.
I originally thought (a few months ago) that this was a PSU problem so upgraded my 300W 80+ Silverstone PSU which came bundled with my case to a 750W 80+ Platinum Corsair unit which I managed to get from Amazon on offer a few months ago. However the problem persisted. I now believe this is due to a thermal problem when experiencing load increases and when monitoring I was regularly seeing temperatures in the high 80's low 90's.
The cooler is my case is the Noctua NH-L9i fan which I bought to replace the intel stock cooler on my previous i5-4590 due to wanting reduced noise. This cooler is not recommended by Noctua for this CPU on their website.
I have subsequently changed the thermal paste to the widely recommended Thermal Grizzly Aeronaut from the Noctua thermal paste which I had used before (which has made no noticeable difference) and undervolted the CPU to -0.095 using the Intel XTU software which has vastly improved the thermal performance and hasn't crashed since.
My thermal results are as follows:
These temps all measured using the Intel XTU software.
I see in the stickied thread (https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/intel-temperature-guide.1488337/ ) that a CPU max temp of 85oC is recommended. Given that my real world workloads seem to be below 85oC and that only synthetic stress cases cause cooling issues should I look to upgrade my cooling. I only use the computer for gaming (mostly indie titles plus a few strategy games), word processing/email/web browsing and some photo editing in Darktable.
During lockdown I have ended up using my personal PC for work as my work laptop (surface pro 4) is c*** so reliable running important to me right now. But I also would rather not spend unnecessary cash whilst the company I am working for is going through a redundancy programme...
Thanks for your help and advice and apologies for the length of the post!
So... my problem began when, earlier this year, I upgraded my PC with the highest non-k processor my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-H97N-WIFI mini-ITX) supports, the 4790 (non-k). Since this upgrade I have suffered a number of random crashes with the display going purple or green, buzzing from the audio output which has required a hard reboot to resolve.
I originally thought (a few months ago) that this was a PSU problem so upgraded my 300W 80+ Silverstone PSU which came bundled with my case to a 750W 80+ Platinum Corsair unit which I managed to get from Amazon on offer a few months ago. However the problem persisted. I now believe this is due to a thermal problem when experiencing load increases and when monitoring I was regularly seeing temperatures in the high 80's low 90's.
The cooler is my case is the Noctua NH-L9i fan which I bought to replace the intel stock cooler on my previous i5-4590 due to wanting reduced noise. This cooler is not recommended by Noctua for this CPU on their website.
I have subsequently changed the thermal paste to the widely recommended Thermal Grizzly Aeronaut from the Noctua thermal paste which I had used before (which has made no noticeable difference) and undervolted the CPU to -0.095 using the Intel XTU software which has vastly improved the thermal performance and hasn't crashed since.
My thermal results are as follows:
- Idle. 45oC
- Browsing 48-50oC
- Light Gaming (Indie titles etc.) 60-62oC
- Worst game (TW:WH20) 78-79oC
- Intel XPU Stress Test 83-88oC @ 3.79GHz
- Prime 95 Blend. Thermally throttle, 100oC @ 3.48GHz
These temps all measured using the Intel XTU software.
I see in the stickied thread (https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/intel-temperature-guide.1488337/ ) that a CPU max temp of 85oC is recommended. Given that my real world workloads seem to be below 85oC and that only synthetic stress cases cause cooling issues should I look to upgrade my cooling. I only use the computer for gaming (mostly indie titles plus a few strategy games), word processing/email/web browsing and some photo editing in Darktable.
During lockdown I have ended up using my personal PC for work as my work laptop (surface pro 4) is c*** so reliable running important to me right now. But I also would rather not spend unnecessary cash whilst the company I am working for is going through a redundancy programme...
Thanks for your help and advice and apologies for the length of the post!