My I5 2500K, temps a little bad?

[karkee]

I just assembled my system,

I5 2500K / Prolima Mega shadow
Asus P8P67 Pro
8gb ram

I am using a scythe PWM fan on the mega shadow, and standard clocks/bios settings at the moment.

My temps idle : All cores around 30/32°

My load temps : 47 , 49 , 50 , 51 °

Now I am wondering arent these load temps to high???

Note I am also using a solo case.

 

[TridenT]

They're fine. Don't get beyond 65C though, IMO.

 

[karkee]

Hmm they are just fine or good? should I try to get them lower before OCing?

 

[StinkyPinky]

They're fine. Don't get beyond 65C though, IMO.

Why? 65 isn't that high.

 

[jimhsu]

How's your ambient temperature and/or case ventilation? That might affect your idle temps...

 

[mnewsham]

What are your load temps?

 

[karkee]

I am using Scythe PWM fan ( SY1225SL12LM-P ), exhaust fan im using a noctua at low rpm around 500.

Ambient temp hmm around 15° I think not sure

 

[karkee]

I just stressed again with prime I get :
Core 0:49 , 1: 49 , 2: 52 , 3: 50

 

[mnewsham]

i would say it's safe to OC to 4.0 at least tho your cooling is nothing fancy.

 

[karkee]

Should I reseat heatsink or use other CPUfan / exhaust ?

 

[StinkyPinky]

Why don't you just try it first? Take it up to 4, prime it. If it is ok, take it to 4.2 etc.

 

[Harvey]

Did you use any heatsink compound, or was there just a strip of it on the HS?

If you're using what came with the HS, and you want to one of the after market heatsink compounds, try Arctic Silver 5 or one of the other known good ones.

Windex works well to remove old compound. When you apply the new stuff, use a VERY thin coating. The compound is intended to fill microscopic gaps between the surface of the HS and the chip. Anything more will impede thermal contact, not improve it. I usually put a small BB size drop on the chip and use my finger to spread it. Windex removes it from fingers, too.

 

[996GT2]

Did you use any heatsink compound, or was there just a strip of it on the HS?

If you're using what came with the HS, and you want to one of the after market heatsink compounds, try Arctic Silver 5 or one of the other known good ones.

Windex works well to remove old compound. When you apply the new stuff, use a VERY thin coating. The compound is intended to fill microscopic gaps between the surface of the HS and the chip. Anything more will impede thermal contact, not improve it. I usually put a small BB size drop on the chip and use my finger to spread it. Windex removes it from fingers, too.

This method is appropriate for standard coolers, but not necessarily for newer coolers that use direct contact heatpipes. For those heatsinks, the proper procedure is to lay down a few strips of thermal paste in between the heatpipes so that the gap between heatpipes is better filled.

 

[karkee]

Hello thanks for the help all

@Harvey

I used Mx-2, I am using Prolima Mega shadow (megahalems)

I just reseated the heatsink and used a "small rice blob" in the middle then put my HS on it didnt spread it out with finger instead of line method. I have Artic silver 5 to though but MX2 should be just as good?

Temps went down with 8° now load!!

@996GT2

So I shouldnt use blob method? (I dont spread with fingers though), with line method my temps was alot higher but maybi I used a little to much

 

[TridenT]

Why? 65 isn't that high.

Thermal max from Intel is 72.6C. Why not give yourself some headroom? Personally, I rather not destroy my CPU in the early times...

 

[Harvey]

Hello thanks for the help all

@Harvey

I used Mx-2, I am using Prolima Mega shadow (megahalems)

I just reseated the heatsink and used a "small rice blob" in the middle then put my HS on it didnt spread it out with finger instead of line method. I have Artic silver 5 to though but MX2 should be just as good?

I haven't tried Mx-2. You can find comparative performance results around the web.

Temps went down with 8° now load!!

@996GT2

Then obviously, you're on the right track. :thumbsup:

So I shouldnt use blob method? (I dont spread with fingers though), with line method my temps was alot higher but maybi I used a little to much

No, you shouldn't. What you want is a very thin, even coat across the entire mating surface between the CPU and the HS. I'd be far more confident about achieving that if I made sure there was compound across the entire mating surface.

 

[Spike]

Those temps seem quite good for a stock freq, especially after your reapplication of thermal paste. For reference I'm at 33c idle and 64-67c (OCCT load) and 55-60c (BF:BC 2 load) running at 4.4 with 1.28v. I expect to hit in the low 70's come summer months as my office is now in the low 70's ambient and will go as high as upper 80's in the summer.

For my Corsair A70 (direct heatpipe contact) I globbed some AS 5 on it and scraped it all into the groves between the heatpipes. After that I took the rest off leaving just the groves filled in and then put thin lines on each of the heat pipes before mounting. I may have used too much compound but my temps seem right within the ranges others are seeing with similar overclocks and I have a somewhat air starved (Antec P180) case.

 

[karkee]

well I did another prime stress this morning cores around running around 47° after 30min of prime.

I think those temps are pretty good with stock clock expected a little better though with the megahalems

 

[beginner99]

isn't 47° extremly good for load temp? Or is this normal with Sandy Bridge?

What's your room temperature?

I have an i875k and @stock I have 60° load temp with a noctua nd-h14 (yes this really big thing). Maybe I should re-seat or socket 1156 chips just run hotter?
(Room temp is probably somewhere around 20-23°C)

EDIT:

HT is on. So that might have an influence too.

 

[karkee]

Well ye the highest core went 48° now...

Using prolima megahalem,

I don't think its possible to get it lower. And yea turbo mode is enabled aswell

My room temp diffrences from 15/20°...

 

[khon]

Those temperatures are perfectly fine, you can proceed to overclocking.

I have the i5-2500k myself, and my load temps only went up about 10C going from 3.3 (stock) to 4.3 GHz (my current 24/7 OC).

 

[VigilanteCS]

Your temps seem to be fine. I just put together a system with an i5 2500k (that I got for $40 D and all the cores idle between 22 and 24C and get up to around 50C under load (BC2). I'm using a stock intel HSF and some sort of Antec silver compound (about two rice-blobs worth, probably too much but it doesn't run hot).

Have fun!

 

[karkee]

Well @VigilanteCS if you get 50 load temps with stock intel heatstink there is something wrong with my cpu temps?? Im using prolima megahalems

 

[VigilanteCS]

Well @VigilanteCS if you get 50 load temps with stock intel heatstink there is something wrong with my cpu temps?? Im using prolima megahalems

Well you said your load temps dropped 8*C when you reseated your HSF and reapplied thermal compound, which leads me to believe you have load temps around 42*c (since you said in the first post that your load temps were around 50*C).

I think 42*C load temps are pretty damn good.

 

[karkee]

Well sorry I couldnt post faster duo to work

I tested some more stuff and it seems I might have an airflow issue in the antec solo.. when I open the case on one side my temps go down alot when doing a full load.

Think I might get the antec P183 unless anyone has another suggestions (I also want to silence the PC later on when I get the temps I want), might aswell go for the noctua NH-d12 dont know if it will be better then the megahalems though