5820K temp and socket question.

[Armadillo]

Looking to stop being lazy and overclock my 5820k soon. Not sure on two things though.

Temp. Having not been on Intel for a long time, is it core or package I should be concerned with? As while hwmonitor and hwinfo agree on individual core temps, they don't on package (about 10C between the programs).

OC switch. Motherboard (GA-x99-sli) has the oc socket and switch. By default it's off, are the extra pins and the on position just for extreme overclocks? or should it be on even if my aims are modest (4Ghz would do me).

Thanks.

 

[LEK-89]

Temp. Having not been on Intel for a long time, is it core or package I should be concerned with? As while hwmonitor and hwinfo agree on individual core temps, they don't on package (about 10C between the programs).

As a whole it's the package temp you need to be concerned about mostly, but also take into account the individual core temps as well - they all won't be the same temperatures, but make sure that they are within -/+ 3-5c of each other. If say one of two cores have over -/+ 10c differences continuously when compared to the others then you may want to apply new thermal paste.

Liam.

 

[Armadillo]

Ok, thanks.

Core temps are all with 3-5 of each other. Package temp seems to be about 4-5 above all the cores. From testing at 1.15V for 4.0, temps are ok, but need to sort my case fans speed as that improves it by a huge amount, but that's for another topic.