Do these CPU temps seem high?

TheCenturion · 20 Nov 2010 at 17:21

I'm running an i7 930 at 4.2ghz at the moment. Room temp is about 20'c. It's watercooled.

On speedfan, it says that the cpu is 23.5, but at the moment the individual core temperatures are: 38, 33 34, 34

This is idle, on load, the 'cpu' value goes to about 55'c and the highest 'core' value is 68'c

By comparison, my gtx 480 idles at 32'c and reaches around 50'c on load.

Here's a pic to show you what I mean:

That does strike me as a big high. (the reason the temps in the pic are a couple of degrees higher than I stated is because I was doing several things at that point: installing 2 games, and about 10 other programs open)

Liampope · 20 Nov 2010 at 17:27

Seems normal. In fact quite reasonable given your 1.41 Vcore! 68 under load is nothing to worry about. They thermal protect at 100.

TheCenturion · 20 Nov 2010 at 17:29

It's just that I have seen people doing similar things on air, and their load temps aren't that much hotter, and their room temps are probably warmer.

Liampope · 20 Nov 2010 at 18:25

Sorry I missed it is watercooled! Seems good for air, but watercooled is normally better. SOrry dont know much about water setups myself.

bifday2k · 20 Nov 2010 at 18:42

GFX card in the same loop as the cpu?

If so thats why your temps are the same as top end air, but i would'nt worry at all, you will be cooling all of it with far lessor noise, imagine trying to get them temps both on cpu and gpu on air cooling, you would go deaf lmao.

RJC · 20 Nov 2010 at 18:43

I have the 920 overclocked to 4ghz with a watercooling, using Swiftech triple rad with Red Wing fans at low speed.

I get around 35c idle and 65c full load with Prime and 1.29v on the vcore.

bifday2k · 20 Nov 2010 at 18:48

Yeh mines the same as yours RJC, all be it a PA120.2 and just slightly less vcore.

And my temps are give or take a degree or 2, the same as both of you.

TheCenturion · 20 Nov 2010 at 21:44

bifday2k said:
GFX card in the same loop as the cpu?

hmm yeah, but the thing is that the cpu is before the gpu in the loop, so surely it should receive better cooling?

The only other thing that I can think of is that I might have applied too much thermal paste to the cpu

GoogalyMoogaly · 20 Nov 2010 at 22:28

I'm no expert but I'm sure I've seen a lot of people on here say that the order of the loop doesn't make a lot of difference to temps (except having the res before the pump).

bifday2k · 20 Nov 2010 at 23:43

The order makes very little difference, as the water will reach a certain temp, no matter how you route it, or what order.

So basicly there is no need to worry, your Cpu temps are spot on, especially considering you are cooling a 480 in the same loop, now need to worry at all mate, its spot on.

OLDPHART · 22 Nov 2010 at 11:49

No prob's there m8 > with your temp's > CPU, my 470[ EK FC H2o Block] at 850/1700/2000 peaks at 50'c. My CPU[HK Rev3 Copper Block] > 4.2GHz roughly the same temp's, GPU's respond better to water cooling, could be due to the size of the waterblock.

My Loop - Rad > Res > Pump > CPU > GPU > Rad.