CPU Temp spikes during loading

[Ben_Harvey]

Hello everyone.

 

I am having trouble recently with a strange issue during gaming.

After entering a loading screen (or sometimes a spectator cam in insurgency) i will get about 5 seconds of increased temperature from the normal 70 degrees up to 90-100 degrees

While i don't think these 5 seconds are much of a threat to the health of my PC, My Noctua fans will rev up to 3000RPM, making it frustrating to me and others.

 

The games i notice this happening in is:

 

The new battlefront from EA

Insurgency

Dirty bomb

Americas army proving grounds 

The forest 

 

And probably a few more i have forgotten.

 

My Specs:

 

i5 4690k OC'd to 4.2GHZ

Corsair H80i cooler with arctic silver 5 paste

8GB DDR3 RAM @ 1333MHZ

Gigabyte 760 Windforce

Corsair rm850 power supply 

 

Any help would be appreciated, thank you

[vanished]

I think it might be prudent to first examine why/how the temps are that high at all, and then get around to why they are spiking.

[Ben_Harvey]

I recently replaced the original thermal paste, both my fans/pump are running

 

During gameplay they do not spike, only during loading

[vanished]

I recently replaced the original thermal paste, both my fans/pump are running

 

During gameplay they do not spike, only during loading

My point is that chip at that speed with that cooler should not be sitting at 70 under load. And getting up to 100 is seriously messed up; that's literally the maximum the chip will allow

[Ben_Harvey]

Yeah, i thought the same, might upgrade to a H100i when i have the money to spare

[vanished]

Yeah, i thought the same, might upgrade to a H100i when i have the money to spare

I would - if I recall correctly it was the H80i that Linus compared to the H100i and an air cooler in one video, and of the 3, the H80i was the worst.

Still, that's a little hot - I would investigate why there is so much heat coming off that chip

[tbroadwater2010]

I have the h80i GT and it works great. Keeps my i7-6700k around 20C

[vanished]

I have the h80i GT and it works great. Keeps my i7-6700k around 20C

What's the temperature in your room?  That would be impossible if your room temp was 20 or higher without a phase system

[tbroadwater2010]

What's the temperature in your room?  That would be impossible if your room temp was 20 or higher without a phase system

my room is usually around 72F. so that would be around 22C

[vanished]

my room is usually around 72F. so that would be around 22C

Then you know it's physically and thermodynamically impossible for your CPU to run at or below the ambient temperature

[tbroadwater2010]

Thats the ambient temperature of my room. I do not know off hand the ambient temperature of my case. regardless i use SpeedFan to check temps on my PC. It may not be 100% correct but i dont see how it could be far off.

[vanished]

Thats the ambient temperature of my room. I do not know off hand the ambient temperature of my case. regardless i use SpeedFan to check temps on my PC. It may not be 100% correct but i dont see how it could be far off.

Well the CPU (by the laws of physics) will be at or above the temperature of the case, which, unless your case is entirely fans, at least slightly above the ambient temperature of the room, so if your room is at 22 C the CPU is going to be (my guess) around 26 on idle (give or take a few degrees).  What is not a guess is that it must and will be no lower than 22 C.

 

There are tools like CPU Z and HW Monitor that tallow you to easily check the temperature of your CPU and other components.  Or you could just watch it in the BIOS for that matter if you only want to know idle temps

[tbroadwater2010]

I should also mention that this is not under much load. I can use multiple monitoring tools, this is no a problem. Then again i am not having issues with my system at all..

[vanished]

I should also mention that this is not under much load. I can use multiple monitoring tools, this is no a problem. Then again i am not having issues with my system at all..

I know it's not under load.  I'm just saying there is no way your CPU is at 20 and the room is at 22, so something is off

[tbroadwater2010]

Im going to look tonight for sure. I am interested to know what the temps are. I am going to use the bios to check so there is no software discrepancies. 

[Ben_Harvey]

Anything you can recommend i try to figure out why the temps are so high? as i said i replaced the thermal paste, that actually reduced it by 20 degrees, but it will still spike.

With the corsair paste it would be at 90+ under load. It never used to run this hot, i have had it overclocked since the release of H1Z1 back in January and have only had such high temps recently

[vanished]

Anything you can recommend i try to figure out why the temps are so high? as i said i replaced the thermal paste, that actually reduced it by 20 degrees, but it will still spike.

With the corsair paste it would be at 90+ under load. It never used to run this hot, i have had it overclocked since the release of H1Z1 back in January and have only had such high temps recently

 

It's a little suspicious that changing paste improved temps by 20 degrees.  You really shouldn't see more than a degree or two between pastes... it makes me wonder how you are putting it on... could you describe it or port a picture from the internet that looks like what you did?

[Ben_Harvey]

The corsair paste was stock, I didn't apply it. Luckily i took pictures during the re-applying process

Here are photos of both the CPU and pump with the corsair paste. (sorry about amateur photography)

 

CPU

 

 

 

Pump

 

 

And the CPU after I re-applied paste

[mcammidge]

What voltage setting are you running to get that Overclock, it may be that this is higher then it needs to be and will typically be the cause of the increased temps if your volting more then needed to be stable at that frequency.

[vanished]

The corsair paste was stock, I didn't apply it. Luckily i took pictures during the re-applying process

Here are photos of both the CPU and pump with the corsair paste. (sorry about amateur photography)

 

CPU

 

*snip*

 

 

Pump

 

 

 

And the CPU after I re-applied paste

 

 

Yeah that first pic doesn't look good lol

 

But in the last one where you show what you put on, I don't see any.  What pattern did you use?