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Stock 6700k hitting 94 Degrees on Prime95
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I just ran Aida's stability test and my temps didn't go over 81 degrees, and had an average temp of 63 degrees:
So I guess with a new heatsink and possibly a new processor with properly applied thermal paste, I should hopefully be ok now that my voltage is running correctly.
Yeah, I'll definitely be doing that.
Btw, I noticed that on all these stress tests that the max cpu speed was 4.0ghz. I understand that intel turbo boost only boosts to 4.2 during lower stress situations and doesn't boost to 4.2 on all cores at once, but would this be considered running at 4.2ghz or 4.0 ghz when talking about overclocking? For example, if I was to OC to 4.2ghz base clock speed, what would happen to turbo boost? Would it not do anything? Would that be considered running at 4.2ghz? This is one area of overclocking that I don't quite understand. I don't want to change the topic of the thread however, so just some quick answers or a couple links would be helpful.
The 6700k has a turbo of 4.2 out of the box. I hit a max of 81c on p95 28.10 at 4.5 Ghz 1.312v with an h100i. But earlier versions, Aida, Realbench etc. 71-72c max. And it's every so often that it hits the max temp, my average was mid 60's on all but the new p95, mid 70's on that. But ya stock with aida in the 80's, raises alarm. All you have to do for your cpu to run 4.2 at all times is change your Windows power plan to High Performance.
When you don't overclock the Turbo only goes to 4.2GHz with i7 6700k on a single core. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/processors/000005523.html
Idk what that is that you posted or why it says it but it's a 4 ghz base 4.2 turbo. I just went into bios and loaded optimized defaults put power plan to high performance and it's at 4.2 all cores. That same link says your cpu has a max turbo of 3.9 on one core as well. Go into bios right now load defaults power plan H.P. I promise you will be running 3.9 all cores.
Guys, on some boards, vendors are taking the liberty to take the max single core boost clock and applying it to all cores as default. This is not new... nor on every board either. Asus boards have a 'multi core enhancement' function that can disable that 'optimization'. Not sure on other boards...
Switching the power plan in windows only makes it run at that whatever speed you set and not clock down to save power.
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I wasn't trying to argue last night, I've only built myself two i7 pc's and I've built a few others for friends. Maybe you have to hit sync all cores after you load defaults idk. If that doesn't work I am flat out wrong about your motherboard. Period. Nothing else I can say. But that's why that 10 core xtreme we were helping that guy with ran at 4 Ghz on all cores without changing his multiplier. He hit sync all cores. But excuse me if i'm wrong and excuse if it seemed I was looking for an argument. All I was trying to do was tell VF-25 he can run at 4.2 without spending a bunch of time overclocking and that's where it ended up going. It's always worked for me. I only try and help people here, and try to expand my own knowledge. Being wrong about something is how I learn more. Have a good day today shall we.
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Hey guys, sorry if I started a dispute. I set my windows power plan to performance and it runs all cores at 4.0Ghz at all times; however, I did NOT enable sync all cores after load optimized defaults. This is probably why it's running at 4.0 and not 4.2. Unfortunately I have the PC apart right now so I can't confirm this.
But anyway, I took off my heatsink (which looks like it was mounted fine, although the thermal compound was slightly uneven towards the top of the CPU because I used the spread method). I also removed the processor, which also looks fine, but I noticed that the socket might have a bent pin:
I'm thinking of taking back the mobo now as well just in case. I have a microcenter warranty on it, and I'm still within the 30 day free return policy, so if there is even a slight chance that this would cause a problem, I'm willing to go through the extra work to remove the mobo as well.
But anyway, I took off my heatsink (which looks like it was mounted fine, although the thermal compound was slightly uneven towards the top of the CPU because I used the spread method). I also removed the processor, which also looks fine, but I noticed that the socket might have a bent pin:
I'm thinking of taking back the mobo now as well just in case. I have a microcenter warranty on it, and I'm still within the 30 day free return policy, so if there is even a slight chance that this would cause a problem, I'm willing to go through the extra work to remove the mobo as well.
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Ok, well I guess I was wrong then. I could see the difference in the reflection on the pin from way above the cpu and none of the other pins were giving off that gold reflection so I assumed that it must have been damaged in some way. Oh well, I've got the board out anyway. It had a few pretty bent caps for sure that I wasn't too worried about, but I guess this way I can at least get a new board with no bent caps.
I'll update when I have the rig back up and running.
I'll update when I have the rig back up and running.
I don't have that overclocking option to sync all cores.Looking forward to the update.
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