The OC I have is an autotune one, probably something here that should be done better.
Idle/Light use:
One minute of Prime95
One minute of OCCT:Linpack
I see others with same clock speeds and a D14 that barely go over 70C under 100% load for hours.
I would say that the airflow in my 550D is quite good, as I've got four 140mm Noctua fans, and three 120mm noctua fans, all running at about 60%-70%. (Just before where thay start to make a tad too much noise). Beefing the CPU fans up to 100% doesn't seem to do anything.
A pic:
Fan cables are tricky to hide! And I just realized that the fan in the door have been mounted the wrong way for two months...
I know that the cooler is mounted right, for sure. I am using "STARS Professional Thermal Compound", since it was the only thing I had at the time. Not something great, but should be THAT bad? I just order some proper paste soon.
The heatpipes on the GPU (around 40C) really feels a lot warmer than the ones at the bottom of the Noctua cooler (even if the CPU is at 60-70C), so it would seem to me that the heat isn't conducting properly from the CPU to the cooler.
What could be the problem? And some tips to tune the OC a bit?