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*** The Official Alder Lake owners thread ***

That then is an indicator of your cooler being the issue! What paste was used? It could also be that the base plate isn't contacting the IHS properly too as there needs to be a certain level of pressure. Idle temps?

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Just looked up the DR Slim, that does definitely look like it might not be enough to cool ADL under high stress load like Cinebench I guess.
 
mrk said:
That then is an indicator of your cooler being the issue! What paste was used? It could also be that the base plate isn't contacting the IHS properly too as there needs to be a certain level of pressure. Idle temps?
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idle temps good at under 30 degrees.

I did use quite old thermal paste so maybe that is the issue.
 
Idle temp is nominal so that's good, when you play a game what does the cpu temp rise to? If it's only hitting 100 when running Cinebench or other stress bench tool then I'd say your cooler and/or paste is not up to that sort of usage.

In terms of paste I can highly recommend Kryonaut having used that on my build and am seeing superb temps under load (under 80 degrees running Cinebench etc).
 
mrk said:
Idle temp is nominal so that's good, when you play a game what does the cpu temp rise to? If it's only hitting 100 when running Cinebench or other stress bench tool then I'd say your cooler and/or paste is not up to that sort of usage.

In terms of paste I can highly recommend Kryonaut having used that on my build and am seeing superb temps under load (under 80 degrees running Cinebench etc).
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Will try different paste/a reseat.

If that doesn't work, I think I'll change cooler.

Other issue is that the be quiet 1700 mounting kit didn't line up very well at all, so the mounting spacers could not be tightened fully (or at least as much as I would have liked. Maybe that is the issue to be honest.

Pretty shoddy from be quiet.
 
You'd expect a brand like Be Quiet to have that sort of thing nailed although didn't Corsair have mounting issues on some boards too with the plate not covering the whole IHS?
 
mrk said:
Tbh when they are matured up they just work and are great. That has been my experience. I guess we have reached a stage with ADL of relative stability with a bit of BIOS setting tweaks and the fact that we got there in a couple of months on a brand new platform is quite impressive I'd have to say. I don't think there has been a single mobo maker who has not had some type of issue to resolve.

Likewise selective RAM depending on mobo has been a thing for years as well. For me it's the hardware spec itself and now, the aesthetics to match what I'm after. This board seemed to look and match the specs I liked to suit the minimalistic non-RGB build :D
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Yeh, that's one of the things I like about the MSI Z690 A-Pro I have, no RGB on it, if it had, I think it might have been a bit overbearing in my build.

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mrk said:
You'd expect a brand like Be Quiet to have that sort of thing nailed although didn't Corsair have mounting issues on some boards too with the plate not covering the whole IHS?
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All sorted. I had an Arctic 34 e sports which i was going to send back as i wasnt sure it would fit the Asus rog gaming A 670 I have (those ***** heatsinks!)

However, due to the problems with the be quiet cooler i though i would give it a try, and it does fit AND it maxed out at 81 degrees on a cinebench multicore run (and scored 22609, which i believe is right on the money).

Very happy now!
 
mrk said:
Smashing! I guess the be quiet will go on MM or something now?

That temp is perfect too :cool:
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Inclined to send it back for a refund as I think it was due to the mounting bracket not lining up. On the artic , the mounts have a double hole line type of thing. On the be quiet it's just one hole , and the long bars were too big! This meant the only way to get some maneuvering so it would fit was to loosen the back plate, but then I think this probably reduce the pressure on the cpu (hence the high temps). Pretty darn shoddy.

The Arctic was only £25 too! Amazing price considering it seems to be able to cool a stock 12700k adequately ( I don't intend on overclocking at all ).
 
Core i5-12400 is 1.9% faster than AMD's venerable ~$299 Ryzen 5 5600X at stock settings. Overclocking both chips yields a tie, an impressive showing considering the 12400 costs ~$110 less
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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-core-i5-12400-review

Didn't read in detail, but this tldr did not impress. AMD only needs to lower price on 5600x. Architecture wise alder lake 6 core is equal to Zen 3 6 core.
 
True but the 12400 has no ecores so technically loses out where the higher 12th gens benefit. I guess as a gaming orientated CPU it fits the purpose but then again there are no ecores to offload background apps to like streaming tools and suchlike.
 
Robert896r1 said:
@mrk no more issues? all set now?
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Certainly appears so cheers!

I played few more hours last night of Cyberpunk 2077 and if it was going to CTD it would have done so in that. Those BIOS settings mentioned earlier seem to have done the trick! I have cancelled the new RAM delivery and will have to drop the PSU back to the local point for Amazon to return for refund too.

I've even been able to tighten up the undervolt on the 3080 Ti which wasn't playing ball before as I thought the game crashes then were related to a too low voltage hence using 925 but have been as low as 850mV since yesterday.

Looks like I am now all set until the next round of hardware updates :cool:
 
Yup consider me avoiding any BIOS updates unless there's some major new change that adds new performance advantages or something :D
 
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