Do my I7 930 OC'd temps look okay?

[Jbandy10]

First the system specs...

I7 930 overclocked @ 4.00ghz
Asus P6T SE
6gb Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600mhz memory
CM Hyper 212 Plus CPU cooler
ATI HD4890
3 Western Digital Caviar blacks
Cooler Master 690 II case
Antec Earth Watts 650 PSU

According to realtemp I am idling in the high 30's with my first core sitting firmly at 40c

The highest they get is when I do a torture test with Prime95. My first core gets up to about 82c after 30 minutes.

In general my first core is about 3c more than the others. But I assume this is normal.

 

[buzzsaw13]

what voltage are you running your 930? I get similar temps with a Coolermaster V8 with their junk thermal paste running at stock voltage.

 

[Jbandy10]

1.24

 

[manimal]

I personally dont like loading that high. Now most tasks dont heat up your chip that high but linx would heat it up even higher. Are those temps with the case open or all buttoned up? Is your room toasty? etc..

I like to have 10-20 degrees of overhead just incase its gets really hot outside and ambients go trough the roof. Once the case gets filled with dusk cooling efficiency goes down. etc...

I personally would drop the voltage and go down 100-200. Or get a better cooler. A megahalems or any of the top tier stuff should suffice. If you have HT on turning that off will drop your temps considerably.

 

[Jbandy10]

I personally dont like loading that high. Now most tasks dont heat up your chip that high but linx would heat it up even higher. Are those temps with the case open or all buttoned up? Is your room toasty? etc..

I like to have 10-20 degrees of overhead just incase its gets really hot outside and ambients go trough the roof. Once the case gets filled with dusk cooling efficiency goes down. etc...

I personally would drop the voltage and go down 100-200. Or get a better cooler. A megahalems or any of the top tier stuff should suffice. If you have HT on turning that off will drop your temps considerably.

Okay, I actually did have HT on so I tried turning it off like you said.

First thing I noticed (obviously) is that I'm down to 4 threads in prime 95. Okay, cool.

I ran the torture test and temps have been GREATLY reduced. Instead of 82c I'm only getting up to about 72c

However, there's been drop in benchmark performance.

geekbench score with HT - 11006
Geekbench without HT - 9955

I guess that's the small sacrifice I make for 10c drop in temps?

 

[MagickMan]

If you're doing a lot of encoding you'll want HT on, if it's mostly for gaming turn it off.

 

[Jbandy10]

About the closest I'll ever get to "encoding" is editing 1080p files.

So I guess no?

 

[manimal]

About the closest I'll ever get to "encoding" is editing 1080p files.

So I guess no?

Some game run a tad faster without HT very few run a tad slower. When I disable ht I can run with lower vcore as well or a higher OC with same volts. Play around some see how it works for you.

 

[HumblePie]

I have an i7 930, just picked up after selling off my 920. I have an asus rampage ii extreme and a noctua u12 heatsink.

With my 920, I could do 4Ghz with HT on but it was not stable unless I gave it 1.35 volts. Then it was prime stable for 10+ hours but the temps always went to 85c. So I typically dropped it down to 3.8 and the voltage to 1.3 and it would drop the high temp with prime to around 79c which was perfectly fine.

Now with the new 930 I have and it is only slightly better. I was able to hit 4Ghz as well, but this time at only 1.27 volts instead now which is nice. This is with HT on still. However, temps still spike up to around 83c at that. So same overclock, less volts, and higher temps are what I am seeing out of the 930.

I am thinking my cooler is messed up or something. I dumped the basic noctua fans that came with the heatsink for a pair of higher CFM fans in a push/pull configuration. While the better fans helped they aren't enough it seems. Thinking about switching over to water cooling personally.

 

[spinejam]

My temps seem to jump-up fast w/ seemingly slight bumps in vCore. If i keep vCore < 1.30 then temps are good -- (mid-upper 70's priming)

 

[Makaveli]

Time for a better HSF those Coolermaster V8 or V10 whatever are junk!

Get a TRUE or better.