Aida FPU temperature testing. Insights?

[Freddy1765]

I just ran the Aida stability test with only FPU ticked.
My temps quickly soared and stabilized at 78-85 degrees (depending on core).
There was no throttling according to the graph in Aida, so that's good.
The temperatures do seem surprisingly high though, and I was wondering if they're normal or not.

My system is in sig, I've got 2 NF-A14s as front intakes, 1 as bottom intake, 1 rear exhaust and 1 top exhaust and the Noctua NH-U14S CPU cooler.
All fans were running at max speed (app. 1500 rpm).

I've done a bit of testing with different configurations, with interesting results.
If I turn off the top exhaust completely it has zero impact on max CPU temps.
Removing all dust filters (front and top) to limit obstructions, again zero impact.
I also noticed that the air my exhaust fans spit out is cool and not warm.
I find this very puzzling!

I used HWM for temps; CPU voltage is 1.179.

Does anyone have any insights? :O
Edit: I should add that a normal Aida Stability Test (tick CPU, FPU, cache and system memory) saw temps in the mid to high 60s.

Thanks!

 

[Silent_Scone]

AIDA's FPU routines are fairly strenuous and don't really reflect most users workloads. They use heavy AVX 2.0 routines which are current intensive meaning temperatures will go fairly high. It's entirely up to you whether you deem running these tests as relevant to your workload. Most AVX 2.0 applications won't be as heavy as these routines.

Try x265 encode benchmark.

http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=142947

However I located a bug in the encoder on Windows 10 which can cause it to drop an instance when multiple instances are ran in parallel mode, so be aware of that.