i5 4690k massive temps at stock. Please help.

Shrapnel

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Hi All.

I built my new rig.
i5 4690k
Gigabyte z97-D3H
Stock cooler for now...

I removed the stock intel paste and applied a rice sized blob of MX-4 into the middle of the cooler.

I loaded optimised defaults, launched windows.

In Prime 95 small ffts I get 100c across all cores (in coreTemp and Gigabyte's XTU software! Idle is about 45.

So, what can I check. What have I done wrong.

I've never had a trouble with thermal paste application etc in the paste 15 years of over clocking?

Have I just not applied enough for an i5 chip? My last was a C2D wolfie so may be my quantities aren't right.

Thanks in advance.
 
The stock cooler will only be good at cooling the CPU at stock speeds. You won't get anything worth looking at before an overclock. Prime will only stress the CPU, your best bet would be to aim for 4.5ghz once you have a proper cooler and then adjust it according to the results. I would suggest downloading real temp where you can monitor the temps that way but until you get a decent cooler, the temps will be high regardless of the speeds you're running.
 
Ok. Thanks for the reply. From what I read 80c is the 'normal upper safe limit' for these chips hence my concern. Or are you saying 100c is nothing to worry about with stock cooling at stock voltages?

Thanks.
 
Shrapnel said:
Ok. Thanks for the reply. From what I read 80c is the 'normal upper safe limit' for these chips hence my concern. Or are you saying 100c is nothing to worry about with stock cooling at stock voltages?

Thanks.
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No one is saying 100c is OK it isn't, but you're only going to get these temperatures in unrealistic scenarios such as stress testing which the stock cooler isn't built for. As Snips has said just have real temp running in the background to monitor your peaks in everyday use and forget about overclocking and stress testing until you have a cooler that can cope with it.
 
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