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i5 2500K overheating?

philjohn, what clockspeed is that at? stock?

Reason I ask is because I've got the same setup - 2500k, Antec 300 and the CM Hyper 212+, but I was somewhat worried I may have applied the thermal paste wrong. My idle temps are only a few degrees higher than yours, but under load (eg prime95), they'll easily hit 70 before too long.

My case airflow is terrible (Always is, I can never get wires where I need them to go), I'm running at 4Ghz turbo, but I can't see those making a 30deg difference. Will have to try OCCT Linpack and compare to OP I guess.
 
Crehl said:
philjohn, what clockspeed is that at? stock?

Reason I ask is because I've got the same setup - 2500k, Antec 300 and the CM Hyper 212+, but I was somewhat worried I may have applied the thermal paste wrong. My idle temps are only a few degrees higher than yours, but under load (eg prime95), they'll easily hit 70 before too long.

My case airflow is terrible (Always is, I can never get wires where I need them to go), I'm running at 4Ghz turbo, but I can't see those making a 30deg difference. Will have to try OCCT Linpack and compare to OP I guess.
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When I go home today, I'll put mine up to 4Ghz and see what results I get, I'll also put any motherboard temperatures I have, so there's some basis for comparison over ambient. Can you and philjohn post your case/motherboard temps?

What is Turbo?
 
Hi Crehl - that's at stock. This is the method I used (apart from the suggestion to lap it which I would strongly urge against - the outside casing of heatpipes are very thin indeed and there are pictures where people have split them open). Since the Hyper 212 has 4 heatpipes you need to do 3 lines though.

drakioned: no probs, I'll post those when I get home.
 
drakioned said:
When I go home today, I'll put mine up to 4Ghz and see what results I get, I'll also put any motherboard temperatures I have, so there's some basis for comparison over ambient. Can you and philjohn post your case/motherboard temps?

What is Turbo?
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I think that 70 figure I gave was at 4.5Ghz but it wasn't stable anyway so it's pretty irrelevant right now.

After 1 hour of OCCT Linpack (4 Ghz), max core temps were 60 66 66 65... so somewhat between what yours were and are now. According to HWiNFO32, Motherboard didn't exceed 28 (Is that right? Sounds too low to me). There's also a "Temperature 3" that hit 55. Not sure what that is - any ideas? The motherboard's CPU sensor doesn't work (Stays at 25 constant), so I don't know how accurate those last 2 temps are.

Also, sorry for somewhat hijacking your thread here, though I'm glad you got your ~90 degrees down to decent levels :)

Turbo is just the speed at which the CPU clocks itself to when under load. Normally at idle these SB chips seem to run at 1.6Ghz or so.

philjohn said:
Hi Crehl - that's at stock. This is the method I used (apart from the suggestion to lap it which I would strongly urge against - the outside casing of heatpipes are very thin indeed and there are pictures where people have split them open). Since the Hyper 212 has 4 heatpipes you need to do 3 lines though.
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Thanks for the link, bookmarked. Might try reapplying thermal paste at some point, but won't be able to for at least another few weeks unfortunately. Though it looks as if my temps may only be a little higher than what they could be, and not as bad as I thought.

Thanks for the help both of you, I'd be a happy man if I could knock another 10 degrees off (Hopefully)!
 
Ok, all 4 cores maxed out encoding h264 and I'm getting CPU at 34 deg C and system temp at 26 deg C.

Running quite low volts though, ~ 1.18 vcore.

edit: Should add I have a few fans in this case. 2x 120mm Antec TriCool on medium speed on the front intakes, 1x 140mm Antec TriCool on low speed (top exhaust) 1x Yate Loon 120mm rear exhaust controller by motherboard (currently running around 900rpm).
 
i5 2500k @ 4ghz

Idle - 30, 31, 31, 32
OCCT Linpack (1h) - 54, 58, 58, 55
Motherboard (under load) - 37, 45, 32 (no idea where these are on the MB)
 
Still idling a little high but it won't cause problems. Your load temps are ok. Btw, how are you loading?
 
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philjohn said:
Ok, all 4 cores maxed out encoding h264 and I'm getting CPU at 34 deg C and system temp at 26 deg C.

Running quite low volts though, ~ 1.18 vcore.

edit: Should add I have a few fans in this case. 2x 120mm Antec TriCool on medium speed on the front intakes, 1x 140mm Antec TriCool on low speed (top exhaust) 1x Yate Loon 120mm rear exhaust controller by motherboard (currently running around 900rpm).
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You sure about this? 34oC under load? What are your specs (OC, cpu cooler, case?)
 
That's what the Intel Extreme Tuning utility, CPUId HW Monitor and the included GigaByte OC software is telling me.

The cores themselves are a bit hotter, running at up to 45 degrees.

Stock speeds, CoolerMaster Hyper 212+, Antec 300 case with 2x 120mm intake fans on medium, 1x 140mm exhaust on low, 1x 120mm exhaust controlled by mobo (but low too). The air coming out of the computer is pretty frosty, but I am in a fairly cold part of the house (my home office is under the stairs).

edit: should add, my vcore is low (depending on which tool I use to view it, between 1 and 1.18 volts.).

edit2: running Prime 95 blend (10 minutes so far) and no core has gone over 47 degrees c and that's only temporary and the hottest core. Current temps are 42, 40, 45, 42
 
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Quite strange, you'd of thought if the HS or TIM was badly applied you would have seen a disparity across the cores instead of being within 1 degree of each other.

Much better temps now either way.
 
Got exactly the same problem but with the stock cooler so I've just ordered a corsair H60 to replace it and overclock the **** out of it lol. Looking forward to seeing what it can do.
 
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