Recent content by Ascension6

it's core 4, from what I can tell.

Just did a delid. Didn't exactly go smoothly (I used the vice method), but the PCB popped out and fell on a corner and was damaged a tiny bit, also scratched up the edges of the heatspreader, but I lapped those parts. Anyway, seems like temps dropped about 20 degrees and now the p95 small FFT...

I reapplied thermal paste after filling voids in heatsink and temps went down noticeably. This was the third time I had applied paste, actually. Before I was using less. I think the solution here to decrease temps would be to delid... As for BIOS updates: I am using a gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD4H...

3.9GHz

Well, you are are right about the 12k FFTs causing the heat. Running that for about 5 seconds caused the temp to go to 95C before I killed it. Core voltage is set to auto/adaptive, but it was still only reading 1.209V. Maybe my chip has particularly bad internal TIM. I am tempted to delid it...

I think VID is 1.209V. I checked that using CPU-Z with sensor=0 in the ini file. I only used the Hyper 212 because a friend had an extra one. I would consider switching if there is a quiet / not too expensive cooler that is significantly better cooling. Everything should be stock unless...

Hmm good to know. I don't expect these temps to ever be reached in real world case. I just tried intel burn test and killed it when it was going into the 90s again. I am tempted to delid this (I'm confident in my ability to do it), but maybe not worth the bother... So are these temps normal...

@Rvenger: Wow, I just tried your method of filling in the lines on the heatsink first, and then applying with 2 lines and a dot in the center... That seems like a big oversight from CM not to prefill somehow or at least mention these gaps... I'm running the same test p95 test (8-thread blend)...

Good idea about checking how hot the heatsink is. I'm not sure, but I can hear the fan spinning up, and I checked that direction of airflow is correct (pushing towards rear exhaust). Oddly the exhausted air from the case does not seem that hot during p95, so maybe there is a problem transferring...

Delidding would help... but if these temps are within normal range I probably will just leave it...

Heh, well it's not just me. Maybe I can pick up another fan for the CPU cooler to help some time...

Hi guys, I just finished my new build (i7-4770k @ stock speeds), with HYPER 212 EVO in a fractal R4 case. I added an extra noctua side intake fan to the R4 also. I have been seeing really high temps during prime95 8-threaded blend tests, wondering if I could get some help. I used some...