[bmatt]

I just got my i7-2600K this week and was curious about temps. I haven't gone in and done any tweaking yet, I have the MSI GD65 MB and just used the OC Genie for kicks after I got it setup. The default clock it pulled on OC Genie was 4.2GHz, which I thought was pretty good. I ran Prime95 and after about an hour or so I was hitting 70C, haven't let it run for long yet. During games/apps I am only hitting mid to high 40s. I am curious if those temps are high or normal? Here is my setup:

Antec 900 case with 2 120mm front intake and 1 120mm + 200mm exhaust
MSI GD65 MB
i7-2600K
Hyper 212+ fan w/ Arctic MX-4
8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X 1600MHz DDR3 (CAS 7)
Diamond HD5870 1GB GPU
OCZ 700W PSU
1x 7200RPM HDD
1x 10000RPM HDD


I didn't do a good job of the thermal paste the first time, or so I thought, so I reapplied the paste using the think X method, but temps remained the same (story of my life, redoing things for similar results). I do currently have HT enabled, since I haven't done any fine tuning yet, so that may be why my temps are high(er). Don't have exact numbers right now for voltage, etc and the OC Genie was still running my RAM at 1333 from what I could tell. I'll get more details this weekend when I play with it more, but I am just curious what kind of temps other people are seeing with or without HT enabled with similar setups?

EDIT: Oh and I'm idling around 32-34C, ambient temps should be around 68-70F (20-21C)

[EarthDog]

Those temps are fine.

Its tough to to compare across systems though. Different ambient temps, cases, fans and airflow..etc.

[bmatt]

Originally Posted by EarthDog

Those temps are fine.

Its tough to to compare across systems though. Different ambient temps, cases, fans and airflow..etc.

Cool, yea I understand, just curious what other people are getting. Hoping to get at least 4.4GHz out of this thing where I can run it 24/7. I understand turning off HT would help, which I may play with, but I don't see doing that permanently since that would make it essentially a 2500K and I wasted $100

[stamasd]

If you see temps of 2600K, you have a problem... Bad pun, I know!

[doz]

Prime95 heats these things up more than LINX does it seems (whereas in previous CPUs, LINX tears them up). Im a little higher than where you are at, but a bit more voltage and speed. During gaming and daily tasks, I dont get above 60c but during P95 Ill hit 80-82c no problem. Thats at 4.7ghz though and a little bit higher than normal voltage (still testing with new board, 1.4v currently).

You can stress test to about 85c without a problem, 90c for the short inbetween runs wont hurt anything either.

[_s3v3n_]

It's kindda warmer based on your case and setup. Did you try running it without the door cover and see if it goes down? If it does, then re-check your case airflow.

But just like Earthdog said, it's tough to compare.

[bigdfootball89]

Oc genie?

[bmatt]

Originally Posted by doz

Prime95 heats these things up more than LINX does it seems (whereas in previous CPUs, LINX tears them up). Im a little higher than where you are at, but a bit more voltage and speed. During gaming and daily tasks, I dont get above 60c but during P95 Ill hit 80-82c no problem. Thats at 4.7ghz though and a little bit higher than normal voltage (still testing with new board, 1.4v currently).

You can stress test to about 85c without a problem, 90c for the short inbetween runs wont hurt anything either.

Yea, I read through a bit trying to dig up what temps people were getting, but none were really specific on their setups, I'd see mention to enabled/disabled HT but no indication of whether temps reported were with HT or not, unless it was a 2500K and the answer is obvious. Curious to see what my temps will be at a higher clock, I also need to make sure my CPU fan is setup to pull too, since pushing would be negated by the 200mm fan atop of it.

Originally Posted by _s3v3n_

It's kindda warmer based on your case and setup. Did you try running it without the door cover and see if it goes down? If it does, then re-check your case airflow.

But just like Earthdog said, it's tough to compare.

I was thinking it was a little high, which is why I originally took off my 212 and redid the thermal paste, but it seemed to make no difference. I'll give the side a try, but I made sure to clean everything out really good when I did my build and all fans seem to have been functioning properly, did have an issue with my fan controller for bit, I think im going to bypass the thing all together, seem to leave it at full blast all the time now anyway since one of my fans started whining a bit.

[bmatt]

Originally Posted by bigdfootball89

Oc genie?

Yea OC Genie must be some MSI thing, you just press a button on the motherboard and let it do its "magic" which I think may be part of the issue, I don't have a clue what it did to the settings for sure. So maybe just getting in the BIOS and setting it up manually will do a bit of good, I know I want my RAM to clock higher.

[bigdfootball89]

If "oc genie" is an app that came with ur mobo and this is what ur using to overclock, then there is ur problem.

Edit: yea that's exactly ur problem. Go manually into the bios and set everything. Just for curiosity could u post what ur bios is reading as ur vcore when u go into the bios?

[EarthDog]

This ^^. Those applications may give more voltage than the system needs. Do it manually and see what you can do to lower temps/load.

[bigdfootball89]

Lol ED, u didn't catch that? Ur skillz r slippin, lol

[doz]

No, MSI P67 boards have a push button overclock feature. Itll automatically overclock via BIOS to about 4.2ghz. Thats what hes referring to. Its not their control software that you change in the OS.

And in reality, its been shown to be pretty good and accurate stability wise and voltage wise. Its actually a quick and easy way to get a "mild" 4.2ghz overclock. Me personally, Id never use it. Not only do I still use the bios to change things (I dont do benching so I dont need software control nor do I like it), but 4.2ghz isnt enough for me

[bigdfootball89]

Still, it's probably not as good as doing it manually in the bios

[bmatt]

Yea I did find that my Hyper 212+ fan was working against the 200mm right above it, so I flipped that. Didn't make a big difference though. So I went into the BIOS and setup a 4.4GHz OC and fixed my RAM speed/timings. After that the idle temps crept up a bit, to mid 30s, but during prime test the temps aren't climbing much, sitting raound 53-55 right now with a peak of 56. Seems a bit odd, I left the voltage settings auto in the BIOS for now.

[bigdfootball89]

How did the temps go down if u left the CPU voltage the same?

[bmatt]

Originally Posted by bigdfootball89

How did the temps go down if u left the CPU voltage the same?

That is what is odd, the idle temps crept but before I'd be in 60C range almost instantly, within the first 5 minutes at least. Now it doesn't seem to be heating up under load as much, not really sure.

[bigdfootball89]

Huh, thats interesting. And ur sure that u didn't touch any voltages?

Why don't u go back into bios and lower the CPU voltage until u can't boot into windows anymore, and then go back and increase it by like .3 volts
And then run p95

[bmatt]

Originally Posted by bigdfootball89

Huh, thats interesting. And ur sure that u didn't touch any voltages?

Why don't u go back into bios and lower the CPU voltage until u can't boot into windows anymore, and then go back and increase it by like .3 volts
And then run p95

Did some playing around, at 4.4GHz I needed around 1.26V to boot and it appears to be somewhat stable, pending a good prime95 run. For fun I did some more testing:

4.4GHz @ 1.26V Peak ~60C generally in the mid 50s
4.8GHz @ 1.39V Peak 75-76C Generally around 70C under load (Updated this had 1.36V at first)
5.0GHz @ 1.46V Peak 85-86C (Killed this one pretty quick and went back to 4.4)

Also, my cores run a pretty different temps, right now I am running prime95 on 4.4GHz OC and I am seeing:

Current: 50, 52, 54, 53
Min: 30,31,30,30
Max: 52,55,59,56

Guess those look pretty close now that I typed them out, but sometimes they can vary slightly more, is that normal? Just need to turn sleep mode off to see if this 4.4GHz is stable, think that is what I am going to stick with.

[bigdfootball89]

First of all I would be comfortable with the one that u have @4.8 for 24/7 usage.
Still seems a little bit high for SB, but it's fine.

Yea its normal for one core to be a little hotter than another