Temperatures i5 3570K (IVY)

[seerain]

Greetings.

So, there's a little thing i would like to get enlighten on, about my IVY. To specify I'm cooling it with the Noctua NH D14, on a board outa MSI (Z77-GD65). So i was running the OC Genie mode which was included with my motherboard but i checked on the "V's" which OC Genie provided and it wasn't really effective i mean on 4.2GHz i had it stepping around 1.288 V, so i customized a bit. Now i'm running on 4.3 GHz, in bios i have it set on 1.230 V actually CPU-Z shows me 1.216 V on load. Without stress the CPU goes pretty much around 32°C, the hottest core is on 32°C and the coldest is sometimes running 19°C (that's one of my questions isn't it bad to be so cold? i mean i guess the variable temperatures are caused by the positioning of the cores on the IVY itself). On full load (Furmark) for 30mins straight the max the CPU hit was 59°C on the hottest core and 54°C on the coldest. What do you think about those voltages and temperatures? I mean i started the overclocking because the CPU was running kind of hot while doing nothing i think it was around 39°C on each core so i wanted to help it also those voltages were inaccurate i think.

 

[cynicalimpulse]

Those temperatures are pretty normal. my i5 4690K is currently at 4.5GHz and hits only 62c on load with an NZXT Kraken X41 AIO watercooler. Is it the same core that hits 19c and 54c? what is the ambient room temperature? 19c seems really cool (not a bad thing) but using air to cool anything whether its your heat sink or the water in your liquid cooler, it is impossible (by the laws of physics) to get something below the temperature of the air used to cool it (only ways to do this are LN2 or Phase change cooling). There may be a faulty sensor.

And a note on voltages: Not all CPUs (of the same model) are created equally, a clock speed or voltage that works for you will may not be adequate for me. That being said if its stable at that voltage it should be fine. however feel free to tweak it for lower voltages (and in return perhaps lower temps).

And to be clear, CPUs thrive in low temperatures! the lower the better! only issue is if you go too low and the air around is a lot warmer; condensation becomes a huge concern (water from condensation + computer = RIP Computer)

Hope this helps!