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i7 temp?

sermad

sermad

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Hi guys - just did a complete new build - went ok I think.

Spec ->

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz
Prolimatech Megahalem Rev B CPU Cooler
Akasa AK-FN057 Apache Super Silent 120mm Fan

All at stock.

Temp is running at -> 34.5 idle

CPU Fan Speed - 1400RPM

is this ok?

Currently I've got the fan sucking air out of the heatsink - blowing over the ram.
 
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Dont worry about it. My noctua which is pretty darn good, gets about that. All depends on exact setup, how long pc has been on etc etc. Dont worry, temps are fine, all that is just numbers tbh when its that low.
 
Idle temps mean nothing, mine at 4ghz idles in that region, fire up prime 95 small fft and let us know your load temps mate, i7's do tend to run pretty hot, on a stock system id expect low 50's to high 50's, the megahelims is a great cooler, depending on the fans used on it, my last bit of advice sermad is, get that setup overclocked dude, itll be grand for it.:)
 
sermad said:
Currently I've got the fan sucking air out of the heatsink - blowing over the ram.
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Put the fan on the other side of the heatsink i.e. sucking air out of the heatsink - exhausting out of the case. You should see a decrease in idle temps (assuming your case has a standard airflow design - in through the front or bottom/ out through the rear or top?).

Load temps is where it's at though.
 
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Check your load temps for us if you can as thats what really matters, but stock idle temps should be around the low 30s i'd say. My 4GHz i7 idles around 38-42 and on load i've seen it go to 75-78 so i could do with someones opinion on that myself if thats ok :)
 
You need to make sure that warm air is being kicked out of the case, otherwise it will build up inside and you're just going to be blowing warm air onto everything.

I've never known a fan perform better when sucking rather than blowing, you'd be better just having the fan facing the heatsink and blowing onto the heatsink towards the exhaust fan.
 
<40c idle is not bad.

My setup is pretty much the same as yours (however using two fans on the megahalem in quiet mode). Right now with 14% cpu utilization (Browsing web with ~40 tabs, watching "high res" video podcast, some other apps) and a TDP averaging roughly at 100 Watts my core temperatures are between 32c and 38c.

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Forgot to say I would advice that you change your setup to push air trough rather than suck. If you want it blowing onto the memory you can simply turn your megahalem around. However blowing air into the area where your cd rom is will mean it has no way to escape the case thus your ambient will rise causing your cpu temp to rise.
 
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Temps are fine i would say, although whats your ambient?

For reference my [email protected] (1.31v) is idling at 29-32 with a megahalems (push/pull with apachies) but its a little cold on the extremities today :eek: normally around 33-35 after the central heating has been on a while!
 
Damn, you could at least compress them. ;)

Core Temp gives much higher readings than most other temperature probing applications I think and unless OCUK used the same cooling/stress test with the same ambient temps then you probably aren't going to get the same result.
 
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i dno if i should re-sit the heatsink fan , i dont got any compound atm.

do you really have to re-sit every heatsink fan that arrives when you buy a system from OCuk?

edit: the reason it got rma'd was because of temps but then they were running at almost 100c , maybe im using the wrong application to read my temps but as seen in there occt screenie they were in the 70s. my room is really cold atm got the window wide open so prolly be into the 90s if the window was closed/heating on

god this has just been a nightmare :(
 
As long as it's stable and not throttling I wouldn't worry, unlike all CPU's previous i7 doesn't have a low temperature threshold.

Quite a few GPU's have been running at temperatures of 90-100C for a few years now without any long term harm, infact I even remember an ATI engineer commenting over concerns, this was back in 2005.

So in summary these chips are designed to run hot, if it's too hot it will let you know by crashing or throttling, obviously though the cooler you can keep it the higher you're likely to be able to overclock.

If you're really worried then buy a high quality heatsink.
 
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mmj_uk said:
As long as it's stable and not throttling I wouldn't worry, unlike all CPU's previous i7 doesn't have a low temperature threshold.

Quite a few GPU's have been running at temperatures of 90-100C for a few years now without any long term harm, infact I even remember an ATI engineer commenting over concerns, this was back in 2005.

So in summary these chips are designed to run hot, if it's too hot it will let you know by crashing or throttling, obviously though the cooler you can keep it the higher you're likely to be able to overclock.

If you're really worried then buy a high quality heatsink.
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the goliath came with an akasa nero , I dont think its amazing but should keep me under 80
 
Liam-89 said:
the goliath came with an akasa nero , I dont think its amazing but should keep me under 80
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Well I can't comment on that heatsink from experience but according to this review it's not much better than the stock cooler (75C load at stock speed) and I know the stock cooler had a reputation for getting overwhelmed when overclocking to 3.4Ghz+.

I'm also not sure how good a stress test OCCT is but OCUK likely did their testing in a cold warehouse environment.

If you are really concerned about the high temperature then I would recommend you buy a Megahalem or another top end cooler.
 
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mmj_uk said:
Well I can't comment on that heatsink from experience but according to this review it's not much better than the stock cooler (75C load at stock speed) and I know the stock cooler had a reputation for getting overwhelmed when overclocking to 3.4Ghz+.

I'm also not sure how good a stress test OCCT is but OCUK likely did their testing in a cold warehouse environment.

If you are really concerned about the high temperature then I would recommend you buy a Megahalem or another top end cooler.
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ye i think i will , thanks
 
Ardbeg said:
Temps are fine i would say, although whats your ambient?

For reference my [email protected] (1.31v) is idling at 29-32 with a megahalems (push/pull with apachies) but its a little cold on the extremities today :eek: normally around 33-35 after the central heating has been on a while!
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Which thermal paste did you use? and also what method did you use to spread the paste? line method maybe?

I need to redo mine, im not happy with my temps:(
 
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