I7 4790k high temp

[Sneakyone]

I recently built a rig with an i7 4790K cooled by a cooler master hyper 212 evo. It idles at around 30-33c but whenci ran intel burn test i peaked out at around 100c. I know that these chips seem to do that a lot. While gaming the hottest temp i got was 71c and it was after going into a heavily populated area in an MMO. Are these temps normal?

 

[ewok93]

Nah, that's fine. You could take sandpaper to that part and it would be alright on the temperatures. Don't take sandpaper to it, though.

 

[Sneakyone]

That's still a little high. It really isn't enough paste, it's tricky but you have to get it just right. If you take the heatsink off, I'm willing to bet it won't have spread to cover the whole hot spot.

This is running the CPU with Turbo off at 4.00GHz


This is what the spread from the last application looked like, I was getting slightly warmer idle temps and you were right.

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I re applied paste like this

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I am getting better temps now that ever, it idles around 33c and the highest temps I got in any stress test were 85c in Prime95 during the small fft test

Intel Burn test 10 runs: Highest 72c, stayed around 58-67c most of the time

Aida64: Highest 66c after 8 minutes with CPU stress, FPU stress, and cache stress, mostly stayed around low 60s most of the time.

Intel Extreme Tuning Utility: Highest 63c after 5 minute test, it ran around 58c the entire time

Prime 95 small fft test: Highest temp 79c, it usually sat around 77c during the test after it worked its way up there, not even 20 seconds after the test I am back to idling at 33c. I also played around 2 hours of Far Cry 3 on Ultra settings and the highest the temp went was 56c. Guild wars I experienced some framerate lag but that could have been anything, hoping not CPU. Highest temps shown in that game were 65c in a crowded area (30+ people )

Turning the turbo off and running at 4.00GHz seemed to make the temps cool down considerably, the max volts on the CPU ive seen were 1.072v in the Prime 95 test. This confuses me.

 

[ewok93]

Glad you fixed it! You have to get thermal paste just right, but it seems like you've got it down.

 

[Sneakyone]

Glad you fixed it! You have to get thermal paste just right, but it seems like you've got it down.

So those temps are acceptable? Even the stress test temps? I dont like how I bought a chip that can go 4.4GHz but im forced to run it at 4.0GHz, at this point im convinced its a setting in the motherboard for voltage, ive never messed with any of that stuff manually so im kind of hesitant to.

 

[ewok93]

They're not bad at all.

 

[Sneakyone]

I guess ill make another thread asking about cpu voltage since i was able to get temps down by turning off turbo. The right amount of thermal paste made a bit of a difference in this case.

 

[ewok93]

No reason to make another thread, I'm here to help. You could try setting the voltage to 1.00v and test it. If that doesn't work, try 1.05, 1.1, 1.15, etc. Once it does work, you can turn the voltage down by .025.

 

[Sneakyone]

Ok, ill pm instead since the thread is getting a bit long, i appreciate the help

 

[xerphiel]

I've experienced the same problem, and followed the same steps. Did you get any further?

 

[Sybnios]

So what happened?! How did you fix the issue??? I was reading the whole thread waiting for the solution since I have been so frustrated by having the same problem and can't find anything looking around the web. I have the same cpu and mobo as you! Please let me know what did you do. PM if you wish. Thanks in advance man! Anxiously waiting....

 

[CompuTronix]

Sybnios,

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