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4790k Temperatures

krustykobb

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I recently installed a Cooler Master Nepton 140XL on to my Core i7 4790k, and I wanted to check to see if the temperatures are what they should be. Below are the temps when the computer is at idle (A few Chrome tabs open, Steam running in the background along with other programs like Google Drive, avast and other drivers):

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And here are the temperatures at load (Running AIDA 64 Stress Test):

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After running it for a while the max temp on the package got to 72 degrees; this was also the case on core 0,1 and 2, whereas core 3 reaching a max temp of 69 degrees

Any advice as to whether these temperatures are good or not or if I need to tweak anything is greatly appreciated :)
 
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It turbos up to 4.4 on one core and even a mild overclock to 4.5ghz on all cores is useful but it depends on what you use it for.

Do you do anything where you you think you might notice the difference?

I wanted every last fps out of fsx but overclocking is fun and it seems a shame not to seeing as you've got the cpu and board to do so.

There's loads of guides about but I'd be happy with 1.3vcore max and encoding temps of 85c or less.
 
McGraw said:
It turbos up to 4.4 on one core and even a mild overclock to 4.5ghz on all cores is useful but it depends on what you use it for.

Do you do anything where you you think you might notice the difference?

I wanted every last fps out of fsx but overclocking is fun and it seems a shame not to seeing as you've got the cpu and board to do so.

There's loads of guides about but I'd be happy with 1.3vcore max and encoding temps of 85c or less.
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I do quite a lot of video rendering so overclocking may be of some use to me, but to be honest I wouldn't know where to start. Any guidance on where to fina a tutorial on how to get started? Thanks :)
 
Well that's definitely a good enough reason to overclock.

I can't help you massively I have never owned an asus board, let alone overclocked haswell with one.

My advice is just search for haswell overclocking guide and read a few. It will be much less scary and risky.

In essence though you are looking to find the highest multiplier your cpu is stable at while keeping your vcore reasonable (1.3v max for me but some say 1.35 and some run higher) and your temps down. Big volts in combination with high temps can degrade your cpu and if you get things wrong, too high volts can kill your cpu on their own.

Your cpu will throttle if it gets too hot but it will die if the volts get too high.

The key thing to being safe is to make sure you don't let your motherboard overvolt above a certain level that you deem your limit.

Also early bioses can overvolt these chips so make sure you're on the latest one.

I use asus bench to stress with and if my cpu intensive games don't crash then I'm stable.
 
McGraw said:
Well that's definitely a good enough reason to overclock.

I can't help you massively I have never owned an asus board, let alone overclocked haswell with one.

My advice is just search for haswell overclocking guide and read a few. It will be much less scary and risky.

In essence though you are looking to find the highest multiplier your cpu is stable at while keeping your vcore reasonable (1.3v max for me but some say 1.35 and some run higher) and your temps down. Big volts in combination with high temps can degrade your cpu and if you get things wrong, too high volts can kill your cpu on their own.

Your cpu will throttle if it gets too hot but it will die if the volts get too high.

The key thing to being safe is to make sure you don't let your motherboard overvolt above a certain level that you deem your limit.

Also early bioses can overvolt these chips so make sure you're on the latest one.

I use asus bench to stress with and if my cpu intensive games don't crash then I'm stable.
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Okay I'll bear all this in mind, thank you so much for your help :D
 
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