cpu temps and gpu temps?
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GPUs may produce a lot of heat but they have weak-ass coolers restricted by their form factor, where as most air coolers for cpus are huge.
That's probably the main factor, and they are typically bigger than CPUs so the extra surface area will provide better cooling, at least my brain suggests it would work that way and I could be completely wrong
That's probably the main factor, and they are typically bigger than CPUs so the extra surface area will provide better cooling, at least my brain suggests it would work that way and I could be completely wrong
Its proberbly the heat spreader on the CPU, i read someone who dropped their temps by 20 degrees by removing it, my gpu never goes over 39 and my cpu hits 65 on full load also, ill be looking into removing the heat spreader after ive found my max overclocks at 65 degrees.
edit: Just tried wacking a few volts through my chip on prime, gos up to 80 at 1.4v, got perfect contact on the cooler, so must have aweful contact onto the heatspreader, aint even warming my loop up more than 1 degree.
edit: Just tried wacking a few volts through my chip on prime, gos up to 80 at 1.4v, got perfect contact on the cooler, so must have aweful contact onto the heatspreader, aint even warming my loop up more than 1 degree.
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Just confirming it is the heat spreader, removed mine yesterday, and dropped the temps 15 degrees, maybe they should start providing the extreme edition chips with optional heat spreaders for people likely to be watercooling or freezing them.
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GPUs generally create less heat they just have less cooling surface space available to disperse it.
The heatspreader fail of ivybridge is that Intel have used cheap tim underneath it rather than soldering it or w/e they did for sandybridge etc.
The heatspreader fail of ivybridge is that Intel have used cheap tim underneath it rather than soldering it or w/e they did for sandybridge etc.
Yeah idd, when i took mine off, there was quite a thick layer of tim under the HS and it had gone hard that way, what ever machine is been used to apply the HS must not be applying enough pressure i guess cause the glue used to stick it on was also about hte same thickness of the tim on the bottom, a little more pressure and it would porberebly all sit flat and hardly effect the temps.