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i7 Owners using retail cooler - whats your temps ?

sithlord

sithlord

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Want to hear from owners of i7 CPUs with retail intel cooler what your CPU temperature is under load using Prime 95 / wPrime ?

My i7 920:

Idle: 38c
Prime 95 20mins: 85c
 
No more than 58-60C under heavy load. But I have a different cooler than you as mine comes with a Copper/Aluminium hybrid design + when I removed the Intel TIM & put some AS5 on it the idle temps drop around 10C to 44C tops (even with a hot room temp from central heating allday).
 
Thanks, I reopened my system and messed around with the cooler.

It wasnt 100% seated correctly but when it was with turbo mode now under prime 95 it does 63c - 73c. So Im happy until I change it for something better.
 
Mine here on my desk at work is hitting about 85Degrees at 3.3Ghz But its also got 12gb of memory and the side panel is off running prime.
 
sithlord said:
Want to hear from owners of i7 CPUs with retail intel cooler what your CPU temperature is under load using Prime 95 / wPrime ?

My i7 920:

Idle: 38c
Prime 95 20mins: 85c
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Mine is similar when I set everything to auto and change the vcore voltage to 1.3 and the RAM voltage to 1.64.

If I clock at all to 3.6/3.8ish the prime sends temps to 100 and the idle at ~48 with the stock cooler.

If I had the money and the confidence I would water cool this chip. Once I get my GPU and monitor I may look into saving for the water cooling bits.
 
Yes they run very hot once the voltage goes up, doesn't seem to be a problem. Seen quite a few stable enough well over 70C. Water cooling is better of course, but even then the temps don't look great from what I've seen.
 
I've got the 920, at 3.2Ghz (stock volts) with stock cooler, and under load it hits about 60-65c. although I've not got the side panals on my case, as I'm still fiddling around with things. When I removed the panals on my last comp it dropped the temps by about 5-10c.

I'm planning on getting a better cpu cooler when there is a better range. hoping to hit 4Ghz, but I'm not planning on pushing it until I've got cooling sorted.
 
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Still not sure even going to bother with a £55-60 1366 HSF as the overclock is only really going to give benchmark improvements. Very few games will benefit from it & already found that Vista and some Internet apps do not like the 8 Cores (Adobe Flash is very eratic now and needs an update) so getting a few app hangs on IE especially with anything Flash based (like most of the www!!!).

Mechanical hard drives are a big I7 bottleneck now & I7 is crying out for affordable SSDs which are mature technology and the pricing is not silly (Mtron is the only brand I would get right now but they are around £650-850 for a decent one!!).

Until this happens I7 is not going to unlock all of its potential in many scenarios.
 
Yep I agree hard drives are the bottleneck in most systems.

I dont know why I didnt go for the 146 GB SAS 15k Cheetah as the P6Tdeluxe supports it.
 
hard drives for what are the bottle neck? for video encoding, yeah sure, only once you can breach decent speeds that some in raid 0 will give. For gaming, hard drives aren't remotely close to being a bottle neck. Find any hdd review and look at loading times, one hitachi 1tb with higher sustained but obviously high latency than a raptor, and one raptor, or raid hitachi's and raptors with close to double the transfer speeds and game load time falls by, 2-3% max in 99% of games. Why, because you don't load up, for instance, all 16gb of gta4 in one go, you use a very small amount at any one time, the main thing in loading seems to be decompressing textures and probably then shifting the data to the gpu. You can load a bunch of 5mb texture files and character models which are then decompresed into 100mb's of uncompressed data, thats where the time is taken, which is basically shown by zero improvement by double transfer rates on high or low latency drives.


PS, prime isn't and hasn't been great for finding your highest temps for years. Its fairly "basic" in terms of cpu load these days, while its using 100% load, theres many parts of the core that can go unused even while at 100% load. Cpu burn test and a couple other things tend to get things much much hotter than prime.

I tried it the other day on my Q6600 at 3.6Ghz, there was a 10-15C difference between prime load and some other things under load.
 
Hard drives are bottlenecks when it comes to bluray encoding, extracting rars from usenet, copying DVD isos, backing up data, also scanning for viruses. Not everyone games.
 
Ultima OC Dominator

I recently purchased the Ultima OC Dominator from OC.
Its clocked at 3.67 with an Akasa AK-967 Nero Direct Contact Heatpipe CPU Cooler.
Idel is round 26-30c and load has been 58c
 
I get 41c idle, and 93c prime 95 load LOL... but i have mine clocked to 3.6GHz with the stock cooler until my bracket arrives for my CPU water cooling block... it dont even crash the system at this temp. These CPU's can handle high heat well.

@ AWPC: i also found Flash and IE/Firefox are acting a bit weird with my i7... there stable, they just sometimes stutter or pause for a split second, like when watching a video in flash for instance. Thought it might be my new SSD until now.
 
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fornowagain said:
Yes they run very hot once the voltage goes up, doesn't seem to be a problem. Seen quite a few stable enough well over 70C. Water cooling is better of course, but even then the temps don't look great from what I've seen.
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Yeah, but there's no knowledge how long the i7 chip will last at those temps. It might be okay, but it also might turn out to blow up in a month or two.

- Huw
 
MR.B said:
I get 41c idle, and 93c prime 95 load LOL... but i have mine clocked to 3.6GHz with the stock cooler until my bracket arrives for my CPU water cooling block... it dont even crash the system at this temp. These CPU's can handle high heat well.

@ AWPC: i also found Flash and IE/Firefox are acting a bit weird with my i7... there stable, they just sometimes stutter or pause for a split second, like when watching a video in flash for instance. Thought it might be my new SSD until now.
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Yeah think Vista is struggling for some reason and needs an update. But also noticed lot of microstuttering in some apps and IE7 keeps crashing. I turned on advanced disk performance in device manager and that has made all of the microstuttering now go away but IE7 stills crashes a lot and Flash can also hang doing nothing (I have flash 10 as well which is the latest)
 
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