Oblivious7
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What should be stable/safe Intel i7 4790k temperatures & what are the OH temps?
Hello,
PC Specs:
Windows 10
Intel i7-4790k @4.00mhz, 4 cores
16GB Ram
980TI
Motherboard Asus Maximus VII Ranger
Corsair RM1000 PSU
New user here so please bear with me as this may probably seem slightly obvious to you once start reading! Placed the below circumstances in spoilers in case it's too lengthy. I have a very basic understanding of PC's but when it comes to building them and whatnot I'm rather clueless so I consider myself knowing next to nothing.
Long and short of it is that I keep crashing in certain games and in one specific game when nothing particularly intensive should be going on with initial tests not suggesting much. As a result I've finally done some CPU tests, as the previous ones were quite a while ago and presumably I did them wrong and I know what I'm looking for now. The results were that when I did stress testing with Prime95 my PC very quickly shut itself down after around 5 minutes. I did a check with OCCT program too and the some of the CPU (cores?) reached temperatures of 90 in under a minute or so. I suppose it's rather obvious but the the graph and numbers slightly confuse me as it's a load of information, making me think 'What does this all mean?!'. So I'm going to post the results and just ask, does it immediately suggest that the CPU is overheating and is it at an alarming rate? What temperatures should it actually be at when doing these stress tests? Asking this as part of me thought if you're doing a stress test shouldn't it be pushing the limits of your CPU anyways and increasing the temperature? However, I guess that that should be happening but not so quickly.
I should also probably shamefully add that the CPU is watercooled but being my typical self, I haven't replaced the liquid since I bought the PC which is around 3-4 years ago so I suppose that's something rather key and bad. Part of me imagines my CPU is possibly destroyed by now due to the neglect. On the flipside I'm hoping if that isn't the case a clean of my essential PC parts, fans and then a refill of the liquid should ultimately solve the issue? Is there anything else I can do in the meantime? I didn't think I would reach a point of my PC parts or my CPU overheating like this.
Thanks for taking the time to read this especially if you respond.
The two tests I carried out with OCCT/HW have been placed into imgur album's. The graphs are from OCCT. I'm assuming the other components like the GFX card are fine.
Hello,
PC Specs:
Windows 10
Intel i7-4790k @4.00mhz, 4 cores
16GB Ram
980TI
Motherboard Asus Maximus VII Ranger
Corsair RM1000 PSU
New user here so please bear with me as this may probably seem slightly obvious to you once start reading! Placed the below circumstances in spoilers in case it's too lengthy. I have a very basic understanding of PC's but when it comes to building them and whatnot I'm rather clueless so I consider myself knowing next to nothing.
Had my PC for around 4 years now and I can't remember when but whenever I was playing games, and nothing else, my PC would suddenly freeze up with the sound looping requring a full restart. I had this here and there when I had a 780ti but when I switched for a 980ti the problem still reared its head. I contacted my supplier last year and they suggested a profile change on the mobo which seemed to sort it for a short period but the problem eventually returned. I'd done their tests - and I thought I'd done appropriate CPU checks but going by todays results, apparently not - so I wasn't sure whether it was still the GPU for some random reason, the PSU, the CPU or the RAM despite all checking out. Further to that the GFX card stress test never resulted in a PC shut down like I had in games. Either way I wasn't actually told what may be the cause as the profile solved the issue and it was left at that and due to my previous experience with PC's in the past, vastly different to this one, if my PC overheated/shut down I assumed it was either the GFX card or the PSU, but never ever considered the CPU. Anyways, I decided just to get on with it as the problem didn't happen all the time until 'recently' where I've noticed the freezing kept occuring with SW Battlefront 2 (2017). It was only ever on the game menus be it loading up the game for the first time or even after a previous crash, just on the starting menu or some other menu elsewhere with seemingly nothing happening on my screen. It never ever happened when I was running around in-game with all the intensive stuff taking place which I'd thought would be causing shutdowns, so I just didn't get it. When examining a recent bug thread for BF2 one mentioned how the game forces some people's CPUs to run at 100% when in the menus which then caused me to finally consider it was definitely the CPU overheating. I had also noticed that when my room was exceptionally cool at night I would hardly have any shutdowns but during the day when the heating was on (it's very hot due to drafty construction works taking place throughout the house) they were far more frequent, also suggesting it wasn't a W10/software issue, but again I wondered whether it was the graphics card
Long and short of it is that I keep crashing in certain games and in one specific game when nothing particularly intensive should be going on with initial tests not suggesting much. As a result I've finally done some CPU tests, as the previous ones were quite a while ago and presumably I did them wrong and I know what I'm looking for now. The results were that when I did stress testing with Prime95 my PC very quickly shut itself down after around 5 minutes. I did a check with OCCT program too and the some of the CPU (cores?) reached temperatures of 90 in under a minute or so. I suppose it's rather obvious but the the graph and numbers slightly confuse me as it's a load of information, making me think 'What does this all mean?!'. So I'm going to post the results and just ask, does it immediately suggest that the CPU is overheating and is it at an alarming rate? What temperatures should it actually be at when doing these stress tests? Asking this as part of me thought if you're doing a stress test shouldn't it be pushing the limits of your CPU anyways and increasing the temperature? However, I guess that that should be happening but not so quickly.
I should also probably shamefully add that the CPU is watercooled but being my typical self, I haven't replaced the liquid since I bought the PC which is around 3-4 years ago so I suppose that's something rather key and bad. Part of me imagines my CPU is possibly destroyed by now due to the neglect. On the flipside I'm hoping if that isn't the case a clean of my essential PC parts, fans and then a refill of the liquid should ultimately solve the issue? Is there anything else I can do in the meantime? I didn't think I would reach a point of my PC parts or my CPU overheating like this.
Thanks for taking the time to read this especially if you respond.
The two tests I carried out with OCCT/HW have been placed into imgur album's. The graphs are from OCCT. I'm assuming the other components like the GFX card are fine.
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