Help, over heating i4770k with H80 cooler.

[McstylisT]

What are your temps when your completely idle ? Or just doing a bit of net surfing.

Setter made the point, and I have the same observations haswell does not stress test well. Nothing is ever going to put that amount of stress on your system. Maybe try normal stuff, like game play, cinebench , superpi test, those thing stress it in real world usage levels.

 

[ZG002]

Will try those, cheers mate.

 

[ZG002]

What are your temps when your completely idle ? Or just doing a bit of net surfing.

Setter made the point, and I have the same observations haswell does not stress test well. Nothing is ever going to put that amount of stress on your system. Maybe try normal stuff, like game play, cinebench , superpi test, those thing stress it in real world usage levels.

Right have properly cleaned everything, sorted stand off issue on h80, reapplied paste. Idle temps are at 31 degrees. Did the cinebench test and it maxed at 58 degrees. Downloading Metro 2033 (only game on my steam which I know used to push old system) and will give that a try.

Have deleted prime 95 lol.

 

[shankly1985]

I never do the line method when applying paste. It's very hard for the heatsink to cover the chip.

The tiny pea size is the best hands down. The fact the cooler does the spreading out for you makes it much better.

Like above have said your temperatures are way to high for a h80. My i7 2600k @4.4ghz never pass 50c
Seems the paste isn't covering the cpu enough.

 

[ZG002]

Actually used the pea method this time.

 

[shankly1985]

Actually used the pea method this time.

Hands down the best method. It evenly spreads with pressure from cooler.

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

I never do the line method when applying paste. It's very hard for the heatsink to cover the chip.

The tiny pea size is the best hands down. The fact the cooler does the spreading out for you makes it much better.

Like above have said your temperatures are way to high for a h80. My i7 2600k @4.4ghz never pass 50c
Seems the paste isn't covering the cpu enough.

I agree it seems too hot, but like setter said, these haswells can be like that. I've got mine on custom water and Prime95 can still push it to silly high temps. Closest I get to that normally is video encoding.
Comparing 2500k/2600k/2700k temps to this is completely pointless as those chips soldered the ihs to the die (I believe) where as Haswell use paste (which I don't believe in itself is bad) and the contact isn't always great (varies from CPU to CPU). Comparing to a 2600K is very much comparing apples and oranges. It's no more useful than comparing the temps of an AMD chip with the Haswell chip.

 

[ZG002]

Will be keeping an eye on devils canyons after all it would seem. This is my first intel build as well. Built many AMD set ups and never had any cooling issues, Never mind.

 

[lude1962]

I read somewhere that the orientation of the cooler backplate is important , does it apply to the h80? If its not in correct orientation the cooler doesn't sit square leading to high cpu temps.

 

[ZG002]

Really only one way it should go, the same way I've seen it fitted else where.

 

[pastymuncher]

You said everything is at stock but is the motherboard voltage set to auto? Maybe it's applying too much voltage under load. Asus boards have been known to do this quite often.

 

[ZG002]

I've changed that to manual. Have tried a gpu bench and getting bsd after about 15 mins, same in game 15-20min bsd. Pretty sure it's to do with heat, All running in a 350d case. Sick for today. Going to have me a beer and chill.

 

[SamyBoy13]

BSD code if possible please ?

 

[ZG002]

Will get the code tomorrow when home. Thanks for the help so far guys.

 

[smilertoo]

A stock 4770k should be pretty cool using any decent cooler, temps are only an issue when overclocking.

 

[ZG002]

Well all I can think of is the board is giving it silly voltages under load or something. Not many people with this board to ask :/

Either that or the CPU is faulty.

 

[hardkore]

Download cpu z if you dont already have it. Open it then run prime 95. Cpu z should tell you what the vcore is under load. It sounds like some hefty over voltage.

Id help more but im still on sandy bridge and not too clued up on the newer chips regarding good temps/voltages.

 

[ZG002]

Going to take a couple screen shots. Hopefully you guys will spot something horribly wrong!

I'm new to these problems.

 

[ZG002]

I think if you click the screen caps they link to my photo bucket, where you can get full size images.

Vcore in CPUz never goes over 1.202v
Vcore in HWMonitor is 1.7v but not sure if I'm looking at the correct voltage there.

The second is the BSD report. it would seem hal.dll is causing the problem. From a quick google this could be linked it voltage..

One further thing, The core speed on CPUz keeps changing. I've seen it down at 800mhz and up to 4300mhz.

 

[The__Malteser]

This is normal on a haswell cpu guys, you can remount cooler, change thermal paste, change to a better air cooler or spend hundreds on custom watercooling. None will make one iota of difference in temps. The chips are gimped from the factory due to intels shoddy ihs and paste job. My best advice, dont run p95/ibt, theese cpu's cant cope with theese programs. Even at stock speed, they cant cope with high loads.

BS! My 4770k runs around 25 deg on idle (although in Feb) and around 50 on full Prime load (although once again, it was February). I have a Seidon 120V; which I think is quite similar.

Right have properly cleaned everything, sorted stand off issue on h80, reapplied paste. Idle temps are at 31 degrees. Did the cinebench test and it maxed at 58 degrees. Downloading Metro 2033 (only game on my steam which I know used to push old system) and will give that a try.

Have deleted prime 95 lol.

That is more like it I had to re-do my cooling twice when setting up my system. I used the line method, but what did it for me was that before bolting the block, I puched it to the CPU, moved it clockwise and anti-cockwise a bit (spread the TIM) AND WITHOUT RAISING IT (air bubbles can come into play here) I bolted the block down. ANYTHING can interfere with the contact. Fingerprints, dead skin cells, small hair, ANYTHING. I tried not to breathe when applying the TIM so as to reduce all the possible problems (didn't want to do it a 4th time...).

When I first did my cooling, I tried not to tighten the fittings as not to damage the CPU. The fittings have enough clearance that if you screw them all the way down, the CPU is still undamaged. Don't overdo it though.

Are the fans set to intake air or remove air from the case? Whatever they are set to, flip them over (mine are set to remove air from the case, but that is because they are at the top of the case).

EDIT: The reason the core speed changed is because the CPU won't need that much speed. On idle, you expect it to be 800MHz. On load, it will go to whatever it is capable of.