Hello all!
So after extensive testing with Prime95 (using version 26.6, the one that supposedly doesn't ridiculously over-do the testing on the i7's) I was OK with my temperatures being about 75 degrees. Was hoping for something lower with my Phanteks PH-TC14PE, but I assumed that I'm only air-cooling so only so much can be expected.
Just for giggles, I decided to try out the Intel testing utility, and to my surprise my temperatures never even got high enough for my fans to kick to top speed
(On the Prime95 fans would go to 1500 RPM with the 75 temp, on the intel test my fans only went to 1100 rpm and temps never went above 65 degrees.)
Both tests had my processor at 4.4Ghz, and both at 100% CPU usage.
What test/temperature should I go by? I'd like to OC in the future, but at 75 that doesn't leave much room, meanwhile 65 without maxing fans leaves plenty of room.
So after extensive testing with Prime95 (using version 26.6, the one that supposedly doesn't ridiculously over-do the testing on the i7's) I was OK with my temperatures being about 75 degrees. Was hoping for something lower with my Phanteks PH-TC14PE, but I assumed that I'm only air-cooling so only so much can be expected.
Just for giggles, I decided to try out the Intel testing utility, and to my surprise my temperatures never even got high enough for my fans to kick to top speed
(On the Prime95 fans would go to 1500 RPM with the 75 temp, on the intel test my fans only went to 1100 rpm and temps never went above 65 degrees.)
Both tests had my processor at 4.4Ghz, and both at 100% CPU usage.
What test/temperature should I go by? I'd like to OC in the future, but at 75 that doesn't leave much room, meanwhile 65 without maxing fans leaves plenty of room.