Well I'm not sure what to make of my temps. Either I have an incredibly hot chip or I'm doing something wrong.
i7 3770k
Asrock z77 extreme 4
Zalman CNPS 10x performa w/MX-4 thermal paste
Corsair Obsidian 650D- ambient temp 72 deg
Running 45 x 100.
I've re-seat and re-applied paste literally like 4-5 times to make sure I've got a correct fit, and any voltage in the 1.18-1.19V range takes me up to 92-94 deg C on intel burn test (simply on standard setting) and prime after 20 minutes approaches 90 as well. I've tried all sorts of vcore fixed vs offset, LLC tweaking, PLL tweaking and as as soon as the vcore settles into 1.18 or 1.19, those are the temps I get.
Do I have a garbage cooler? A dud chip? I'm almost inclined to head down to microcenter and pick up an H80/100 or something because these temps seem absurd.
PS - I had my "old" 2600k in the system as a placeholder and didn't do a clean install with the cpu switch, altho Win7 did re-install a bunch of stuff. Silly quesiton, but could that somehow be throwing off the temps or anything? Sorry, I'm just scratching my head at these temps.
i7 3770k
Asrock z77 extreme 4
Zalman CNPS 10x performa w/MX-4 thermal paste
Corsair Obsidian 650D- ambient temp 72 deg
Running 45 x 100.
I've re-seat and re-applied paste literally like 4-5 times to make sure I've got a correct fit, and any voltage in the 1.18-1.19V range takes me up to 92-94 deg C on intel burn test (simply on standard setting) and prime after 20 minutes approaches 90 as well. I've tried all sorts of vcore fixed vs offset, LLC tweaking, PLL tweaking and as as soon as the vcore settles into 1.18 or 1.19, those are the temps I get.
Do I have a garbage cooler? A dud chip? I'm almost inclined to head down to microcenter and pick up an H80/100 or something because these temps seem absurd.
PS - I had my "old" 2600k in the system as a placeholder and didn't do a clean install with the cpu switch, altho Win7 did re-install a bunch of stuff. Silly quesiton, but could that somehow be throwing off the temps or anything? Sorry, I'm just scratching my head at these temps.
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