4790k Idle Temps

Okay,

I tries using the stock cooler from intel and the idle temps were 65c with this, Way too high. Anyone got any ideas of why this is happening? This is 15c higher then what my h100i was and i was uncomfortable with those temps.
 
I don't know your bios but it looks to me like your not using an offset, Just stick your voltage back on auto and set your clocks back to stock and see if that changes anything. If I set a voltage like that in my bios it would force it all the time, like I said I dunno your bios though.
 
Unless you live in an old people's home, idle temps in the 60s would usually be an indication of the cooler/paste not being fitted properly. I've done it myself in the past. Are you cleaning it properly before re-applying some fresh?
 
BluD said:
I don't know your bios but it looks to me like your not using an offset, Just stick your voltage back on auto and set your clocks back to stock and see if that changes anything. If I set a voltage like that in my bios it would force it all the time, like I said I dunno your bios though.
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Hi,

I though my clocks were set to stock i did not think the volts could be set on auto. Have you seen this setting somewhere in my images
 
marc2003 said:
Unless you live in an old people's home, idle temps in the 60s would usually be an indication of the cooler/paste not being fitted properly. I've done it myself in the past. Are you cleaning it properly before re-applying some fresh?
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I used the isopropyl alcohol to clean the paste off and i will do this again tonight and re apply the paste using the stock cooler as it is easier to test with at the moment.
 
harvey.l12 said:
Hi,

I though my clocks were set to stock i did not think the volts could be set on auto. Have you seen this setting somewhere in my images
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CPU VCore, in my bios I have an "auto" option which automatically adjusts voltage to suit your clocks, then I have "normal" option which adjusts voltage but incorporates an offset which you adjust below, then lastly ya have an option to insert a number like your 1.18 which it will lock it to.

Like I said probably different in your case been a different mobo but I thought it's worth mentioning.
 
BluD said:
CPU VCore, in my bios I have an "auto" option which automatically adjusts voltage to suit your clocks, then I have "normal" option which adjusts voltage but incorporates an offset which you adjust below, then lastly ya have an option to insert a number like your 1.18 which it will lock it to.

Like I said probably different in your case been a different mobo but I thought it's worth mentioning.
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Okay thank you for that. Im going to try and set mine to auto and test without my additional RAM and without changing the frequency of my RAM to as i changes it to 1866 from 1333 as thats what my RAM can run at.

I am also going to try loading optimized defaults if non of this works.
 
I would just do optimised defaults first, then just set XMP and see how that goes before ya change anything else.
 
Ok from your screenshots it all seems pretty default and the idle states are all enabled as auto. So if the system is not being hammered it should drop down (you can often see in core temp the frequency/VID will jump up and down as needed as it drops down when it's not needing to do anything).

Set the CPU Vcore to Auto as well and see if it improves things any - but yes something is not right and you aren't going crazy by any means.
Normally my VID (vcore) in core temp sits at 0.7 due to the intel c states power saving.

When you took the heatsink or the head of the H100i off, was the paste spread ok? i.e is it making good contact with the cpu heat spreader?
 
Yes the voltage in the Core temp VID is not dropping when idle. Constant 1.185V

I have re insatlled my h100i and paste is all good, i'm confident its the V-core not dropping when idle now
 
Even with vcore on auto its not dropping? thats just wierd, dunno what else to suggest if ya have power settings on balanced so it drops to 5% on idle and you have power saving options enabled in bios then im baffled. I would suggest reflashing your bios, maybe its glitched and its not reading properly.
 
Change EIST from auto to on if you can.

Change c6/c7 states from auto to c7.

Change windows power plan so minimum processor state is 5% like BluD said.

Though honestly, those temps are way higher than they should be even with the power saving stuff turned off.
 
Where can I find the EIST and I can change the C's form auto to either enable it disable?

I will also try reflashing to the bios version

I believe I need an adaptive mode but i don't know what it's called on gigabyte bios for me. I see cpu offset
 
Ah i didnt realise ya was on gigabyte lol, that looks nothing like my bios, im on gigabyte z97 too, for adaptive voltage ya just set vcore to "normal", it just allows you to set an offset. It shouldnt give you a different result to Auto though unless you set an offset or overclock your CPU at stock it should be the same.
 
harvey.l12 said:
Where can I find the EIST and I can change the C's form auto to either enable it disable?

I will also try reflashing to the bios version

I believe I need an adaptive mode but i don't know what it's called on gigabyte bios for me. I see cpu offset
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Cpu EIST function, and try enable c6/c7
 
Tried enabling both of these, no luck. i have no idea how i even get this to work. Might post in the motherboard section asking about the gigabyte BIOS and how to get it ti dynamically drop volts.
 
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