High Temperature with GIGABYTE Z97X-Gaming 3 and i7 4790k

[Huy Khoa Nguyen]

I have just bought the mainboard Gigabyte Gaming 3, with i7 4790K, when I run the CPU Stress test the temperature reached up to 90 - 97 °C, idle temp around 25° but sometimes 47°, I read some topics about the problem of mainboard Gigabyte, however, I couldn't find out the good solution for this,

I'm returning this mainboard and change to the ASUS MAXIMUS VII RANGER, is there anyone using this mainboard with i7 4790K can give me some advise or temperature of them?

And as I dont OC so should I keep the stock cooler or i7 or buy a better cooler ?

Thank you very much!

 

[FITCamaro]

I added 5/32" (~4mm) neoprene washers to the back side of the motherboard and reseated the block. Now seeing about a 10C improvement in Prime95 Small FFTs test. Yes it's a largely synthetic workload that I won't really see when gaming, but it's good to know my CPU isn't hitting over 90C anymore in an insanely demanding workload.