i7 4790K Average Temperatures?

[michaeldx]

Hi, I just finished buiding my PC and was wondering if you guys could let me know whether the CPU temperatures I am experiencing are considered to be normal at the current room temperature.

I am not overclocking.

The BIOS shows the CPU being at 38 to 44 C while idle. Room temperatures are kind of higher than normal, at about 40 C during the day (again, this inside the house). We are experiencing a heat wave outside. It is now the night and we are at about 30-32 C indoors. I am assuming that this higher than usual temp could have an effect on the CPU temp? I have read 30-35 C CPU temp is what it should be, normally, although I have also read that the i74790K (and some i5) is known for running at higher temps than the previous generations and that some people were complaining about this to Intel.

While performing certain tasks, such as browsing, watching YouTube or playing games, it goes about 2-3 degrees higher. I haven't tested with heavy load tasks such as video editing.

-i7 4790k

-Gigabyte Gaming 5 z97 rev 1.0

-Hyper Evo 212 to cool the CPU

-2 modules of 8 GB, total of 16GB

-Nvidia Geforce GTX 970

-850 W Seasonic x-series gold

All components are brand new, including two hard drives.

Case has 4 fans for now: front(intake), back (exhaust), and two top ones(exhaust), running between 800 and 1300 rpm

CPU cooler is being reported by hwinfo as running between 1500 and 1800 rpm. I checked and it appears to be fully seated on the CPU. I did apply thermal paste, the one that came with the cooler, just a grain of rice in the middle, maybe a bit bigger.

I have also noticed Hwinfo shows yellow bars on the 4 cores most of the time, while idle. I am assuming this is due to the Turbo option on the motherboard?

CPU voltage is at 1.18

Intel Extreme Tuning Utility shows the CPU at about the same temperature, running at a frequency of about 4.40Ghz occasionally.


So, what do you think? Is it normal to have the extra degrees in this higher than normal temperatures? I have no air conditioning, just a few fans in the room.


I haven't performed any stress tests yet, so if you have any suggestions as to which software to use other than the ones I have been testing, please let me know.



Thank you so much for your help

 

[Darkbreeze]

Any software can cause windows to crash, depending on what else is installed and if your motherboard uses specific sensors known to have issues in reporting utilities. I've personally seen far more crashes with HWmonitor, Open hardware monitor, CCC and even HWinfo than I have with Core Temp, but again, it's all dependent on the hardware in each specific machine. To date though I don't believe I've encountered any instances of Core Temp crashing. The others I've seen countless times, especially if you don't disable certain sensors as per the warnings that generally pop up on the first sensor sweep when starting the utility.