Here is my build info (sorry for formatting, using Notepad lol):
CPU: i7 6700k Skylake, purchased 2016 https://ark.intel.com/products/88195/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_20-GHz
Cooler: Stock Shuttle ICE cooler (Shuttle SZ170R8 v1)
Core speed: 4.0 ghz
Core voltage at load: avg 1.25; 1.359 max w/ Novabench, max 1.421 w/ Intel ETU benchmark
Load test software: Intel ETU (latest version), Novabench 4.0.5
Temperature software: CPUID HWMonitor 1.32.0
Load & idle Core temperatures: idle 31c, load 79c during bench, occasional 83c running No Man's Sky cranked, 84c prime95 v26.6 Small FFTs for 10+ minutes
Memory: Kingston HyperX FURY Black 8GB 2133MHz DDR4 Non-ECC CL14 DIMM Desktop Memory (HX421C14FB/8)
Motherboard: Shuttle FZ170
Graphics Card: ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Turbo Edition 4K & VR Ready Dual HDMI 2.0 DP 1.4 Auto-Extreme Graphics Card (Turbo-GTX1070-8G)
Ambient temperature: 72-74f? (A/C set at 71f; thermometor on order)
I built this PC in August 2016 and haven't really used it since (30 hours of Skyrim SE, 50 hours of No Man's Sky, mostly off since then, or running a Plex server for a movie here and there). I recently did some thermal tests and the temps were getting near 80c, and I was hoping for 75c so I could absentmindedly play games and not worry about heat. I re-seated the CPU cooler with Noctua NT-H1 thermal paste (using the pea dot method), and that seemed to get me from idle 32c to 28c, but then after stress testing some more, it went back up to 31c.
The real worries I have are the 83c during No Man's Sky (though I think that title just hits the CPU a bit harder than most) and the 1.4v during Intel ETU (I didn't think it would jump past 1.3v!). Am I just being paranoid? I've never really had to troubleshoot heat issues in Shuttle cases before, no matter what I threw at my last one, it never hit 80c. Maybe this is more normal for this CPU, I'm not sure. I can't really find Intel docs that specify that I can ram the CPU to 85c forever without a care, lol.
Anything I can do to make sure I'm good to go?
CPU: i7 6700k Skylake, purchased 2016 https://ark.intel.com/products/88195/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_20-GHz
Cooler: Stock Shuttle ICE cooler (Shuttle SZ170R8 v1)
Core speed: 4.0 ghz
Core voltage at load: avg 1.25; 1.359 max w/ Novabench, max 1.421 w/ Intel ETU benchmark
Load test software: Intel ETU (latest version), Novabench 4.0.5
Temperature software: CPUID HWMonitor 1.32.0
Load & idle Core temperatures: idle 31c, load 79c during bench, occasional 83c running No Man's Sky cranked, 84c prime95 v26.6 Small FFTs for 10+ minutes
Memory: Kingston HyperX FURY Black 8GB 2133MHz DDR4 Non-ECC CL14 DIMM Desktop Memory (HX421C14FB/8)
Motherboard: Shuttle FZ170
Graphics Card: ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Turbo Edition 4K & VR Ready Dual HDMI 2.0 DP 1.4 Auto-Extreme Graphics Card (Turbo-GTX1070-8G)
Ambient temperature: 72-74f? (A/C set at 71f; thermometor on order)
I built this PC in August 2016 and haven't really used it since (30 hours of Skyrim SE, 50 hours of No Man's Sky, mostly off since then, or running a Plex server for a movie here and there). I recently did some thermal tests and the temps were getting near 80c, and I was hoping for 75c so I could absentmindedly play games and not worry about heat. I re-seated the CPU cooler with Noctua NT-H1 thermal paste (using the pea dot method), and that seemed to get me from idle 32c to 28c, but then after stress testing some more, it went back up to 31c.
The real worries I have are the 83c during No Man's Sky (though I think that title just hits the CPU a bit harder than most) and the 1.4v during Intel ETU (I didn't think it would jump past 1.3v!). Am I just being paranoid? I've never really had to troubleshoot heat issues in Shuttle cases before, no matter what I threw at my last one, it never hit 80c. Maybe this is more normal for this CPU, I'm not sure. I can't really find Intel docs that specify that I can ram the CPU to 85c forever without a care, lol.
Anything I can do to make sure I'm good to go?