Bought a 5930K back at the beginning of the year... It's on a custom water loop with plenty of radiator capacity.
But even without being overclocked, the temperatures are spiking up very quickly.
This is from 10 standard iterations of Intel burn test, and three very high iterations. I was monitoring radiator temperature at the same time and they only rose by about 3 degrees over the whole test.
The line at the start of the graph that is highest is the package temperature, which starts at 41 degrees idle and then gets lost with the rest of the lines.
The rest of the lines are individual core temperatures, which start out between 30-35 and then jump to around 65-69 at peak load.
So what's happening?? I'd almost be led to believe that the loop wasn't pulling any heat away from the CPU, but the maximum temperatures never seem to rise...
I'm using an EK-Supremacy EVO - Full Nickel waterblock and have re-seated and reapplied thermal paste a number of times, have tried rotating it 90 degrees, and have the correct jet plate and insert for this CPU inserted.
The temperature of waterblock, and the area around the CPU never get hot to the touch.
So what do you think? Did I strike out in the silicon lottery and get a CPU with either bad inbuilt temperature probes, or a poor adhesion to the IHS?
But even without being overclocked, the temperatures are spiking up very quickly.
This is from 10 standard iterations of Intel burn test, and three very high iterations. I was monitoring radiator temperature at the same time and they only rose by about 3 degrees over the whole test.
The line at the start of the graph that is highest is the package temperature, which starts at 41 degrees idle and then gets lost with the rest of the lines.
The rest of the lines are individual core temperatures, which start out between 30-35 and then jump to around 65-69 at peak load.
So what's happening?? I'd almost be led to believe that the loop wasn't pulling any heat away from the CPU, but the maximum temperatures never seem to rise...
I'm using an EK-Supremacy EVO - Full Nickel waterblock and have re-seated and reapplied thermal paste a number of times, have tried rotating it 90 degrees, and have the correct jet plate and insert for this CPU inserted.
The temperature of waterblock, and the area around the CPU never get hot to the touch.
So what do you think? Did I strike out in the silicon lottery and get a CPU with either bad inbuilt temperature probes, or a poor adhesion to the IHS?
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