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i7 4790k help

noobftw

noobftw

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I have a 4790k and while playing battlefield 4 it's is hitting max temps of 82c, is that no far to high, i have an enthoo luxe case with 200mm fan as intake and 2 140mm fans outtake at the top and 1 120mm fan at the back as outtake with a be quiet dark rock pro 2 on the cpu, any thoughts would be great, all i have done in the bios is change the stock voltage to 1.151 and set the cores at 4.4

Just reverted bios back to absolute stock apart from xmp profile on memmory and i am hitting 82c constantly, my i7 4770k was clocked at 4.4 and never went over 64c with this exact same cooler and that was in a rubbish case, wow

room temp of 30c
 
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But look at the room temperature I myself have had to lower my overclock as I became unstable, I think it was the increase in temps that did it.
 
it hits 82c at stock settings though, surly that is far to high with a dark rock pro 2, iv been reading about and people have been hitting 64c tops, really don't know what the hell is going on
 
Room temp of 30C ?!?!?!

Anyway, I have the same CPU (not OC either) and in BF4 I think it gets up to the 60s. I have a Noctua DH15 and a poorly configured Air540 case (i.e. I don't have all the fans installed) for what it's worth.
 
Take off cooler, clean of thermal paste with some isopropyl alcohol, re-apply thermal paste, re-seat cooler and see if that helps the temps.

Also flash latest bios if you have not already.
 
When uve reverted to stock check the volts some mobo go funny with devils canyon.

They di run hot. Mine on a full custom loop still hits 60c at 4.4 on 1.2v
 
volts are fine, at stock they never go over 1.23 i think, i will try redoing the heatsync and thermal paste, if their are no changes then the chip is going back for sure, i think it's the tim on the chip, makes me want to delid it to see if im right :/
 
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volts are fine, at stock they never go over 1.23 i think, i will try redoing the heatsync and thermal paste, if their are no changes then the chip is going back for sure, i think it's the tim on the chip, makes me want to delid it to see if im right :/
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1.23v is relativity high for stock, though not crazy. Could probably take off around .05v
 
yeah it will start with somthing like L432

The L means its produced in malaysia

The 4 means its produced in 2014

the 32 means its produced in the 32 week of that year.

Why?
 
re-seated everything and now im getting max 72c in battlefield 4 overclocked to 4.6ghz at 1.235 volts, although occt and prime raise the temp to a max of 87c which is quite high but will never reach those tempos in any game so i think ill leave it at that, failing that i may de-lid the chip, my chip was manufactured in Malaysia in 2014 :/ would have been nice to receive a 2015 model tbh instead of old stock :(

my temps still remain around 45c at idle which is driving me insane, it even idles at that when using stock volts and undervolting the cpu, grrrrrr

talk about silicon lottery
 
My malay l4 chip is a nice chip :) got it a few weeks ago.

Your gaming temp now look fine. Idle is kinda high, but I wouldn't loose any sleep over it.
 
Temps are similar to yours

83c max Real Bench,
73c max Crysis 3
69c max Witcher

idling high 20s / low 30s

Cooler Noctua D14

CPU at 4.7GHz @ 1.218v
 
Assuming that you still run hot at absolute stock settings tells me it is not the chip but your motherboard (correct me if I am wrong) since I've sort of had the same issue (I forced mine to run at 4Ghz)

Take a look at this topic over at Intel.

https://communities.intel.com/message/260210#260210

There's plenty of people with similar issues and Ken-Intel suggested it had to do with the voltages being wrong.

Another user named DanyXP provided pictures of his bios settings to set the CPU to run at a non turbo boost setting to achieve excellent temperatures.
https://communities.intel.com/thread/54032?start=420&tstart=0

Here are pictures of before and after from me.

Before
http://i.imgur.com/nS4lxib.jpg

After
http://i.imgur.com/bzJu2QG.jpg

Final results
http://i.imgur.com/a6ouneC.jpg

Now I noticed it took me about 10-15 reboots to get this 100% stable and I'm still not sure whether it's the CPU getting 1.760 volts or the fact that I changed the 0.064 setting to 0.032
 
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Which paste and method you using ? try the small rice grain line method and let the heatsink spread it.
 
what mobo you using newboy as your idle temps are way lower than mine, must be a setting in the bios, i shall wait for a asus bio update i think :(, it should not be 42c at idle - no way

using mx 4 paste
 
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