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Couple things; system is like 2-3 years old now? Im not precisely sure. But its not a spring chicken anymore.
First - > 16gb pny xlr8 ram 1866mhz... will no longer run stable at 1.5v. I boosted to 1.6v and have had no issues in stress testing or benchmarking. The ram is older than the system, probably 4 years old at this point. Is it time for new ram or just ride it till it dies?
Second -> My 4790k is misbehaving. I got rid of the water cooling loop, so Im back on air. NH-D15 with 3 fans on the cooler (yes I know mostly overkill, but I had the extra fan and the room to do it, why not?); with proper case ventilation ofc. I am running an overclock of 4.7ghz @ 1.28v; LLC medium high (setting 2/5; doesn't overvolt much at all)
Idle temps
Package - 36-38
Core 0 - 35-37
Core 1 - 27, 28
Core 2 - 23-27
Core 3 - 29
So putting around in chrome, theres already a huge disparity between core 0/package and the rest of the cores. During stress testing (aida64 extreme full suite, physics testing 3dmark, etc) its usually all pretty similar.
Aida64 temps (stress cpu, fpu, cache)
Package - 86
Core 0 - 84
Core 1 - 72
Core 2 - 74
Core 3 - 74
No throttling, and 86 is technically "ok", but Im not wild about the 10-15c gaps i see between the cores. My main concern isn't pushing the overclock to the "limit" nor is it going any further on my specs; I would like my 4790k to last a while. I know delidding is risky, and I will eat that part of it (will give me an excuse to jump ship to a 1700x lol); but I imagine the TIM dried out or isnt working as intended any more. I have thermal grizzly conductonaut for the application.
Im 99% sure Im going to do it today, so if anyone has much to say on the matter; Ill appreciate it.
Couple things; system is like 2-3 years old now? Im not precisely sure. But its not a spring chicken anymore.
First - > 16gb pny xlr8 ram 1866mhz... will no longer run stable at 1.5v. I boosted to 1.6v and have had no issues in stress testing or benchmarking. The ram is older than the system, probably 4 years old at this point. Is it time for new ram or just ride it till it dies?
Second -> My 4790k is misbehaving. I got rid of the water cooling loop, so Im back on air. NH-D15 with 3 fans on the cooler (yes I know mostly overkill, but I had the extra fan and the room to do it, why not?); with proper case ventilation ofc. I am running an overclock of 4.7ghz @ 1.28v; LLC medium high (setting 2/5; doesn't overvolt much at all)
Idle temps
Package - 36-38
Core 0 - 35-37
Core 1 - 27, 28
Core 2 - 23-27
Core 3 - 29
So putting around in chrome, theres already a huge disparity between core 0/package and the rest of the cores. During stress testing (aida64 extreme full suite, physics testing 3dmark, etc) its usually all pretty similar.
Aida64 temps (stress cpu, fpu, cache)
Package - 86
Core 0 - 84
Core 1 - 72
Core 2 - 74
Core 3 - 74
No throttling, and 86 is technically "ok", but Im not wild about the 10-15c gaps i see between the cores. My main concern isn't pushing the overclock to the "limit" nor is it going any further on my specs; I would like my 4790k to last a while. I know delidding is risky, and I will eat that part of it (will give me an excuse to jump ship to a 1700x lol); but I imagine the TIM dried out or isnt working as intended any more. I have thermal grizzly conductonaut for the application.
Im 99% sure Im going to do it today, so if anyone has much to say on the matter; Ill appreciate it.
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