KillermanGabe

Okay, turned down my voltage to 1.2 and temps are now in the 60s. Using AIDA64.

I am getting quite high temps when stress testing my CPU at stock speeds. I have everything set to default in BIOS and have an i7 4790k with a Cooler Master 612 v2 cooler on it. Here are my temps: Idle: About 33C Stress Testing with Prime95 v26.6: About 98C Rendering Videos with Premiere Pro: About 80C I think these temps are very high for an after market cooler at stock settings. The vCore is set to auto and shows as 1.29V in HWinfo. This also seems high to me because the max recommended voltage is 1.3 for overclocking Haswell chips. I have tried reapplying thermal paste as I may have put too much on the first time but temps did not change. What could be wrong here? Thanks, Gabe G.

Hello, I am looking to buy a good CPU cooler for my new i5 4690k that I will be mildly overclocking. (By mild I mean nothing too much, probably from 3.5GHz to at the max 4.0GHz if the temps are good for me. My case supports a CPU cooler with the max height of 158mm so the Cooler Master Hyper 212 evo will probably not fit as it is 159mm. Here is my exact case: http://www.amazon.com/AeroCool-Gaming-Tower-Cases-StrikeX-One/dp/B008PEWNN0 Thanks, Gabe G.

I cannot decide between the ASUS MAXIMUS VI HERO or MSI Z97S SLI KRAIT for my new i5 4690k. I am not really looking to upgrade to broadwell in the future but I may in a couple of years. I will be overclocking my i5 4690k to 4.2GHz with watercooling. What should I get? Thanks, Gabe G.

Hello, I use my computer for mostly playing games however I do record them a lot. I would also like to start streaming games as well. When I record my games I transfer the video and audio to my Mac where I edit and render them. I also multitask a little when gaming such as talking with friends on skype, and as I said before record or stream occasionally. My question is, is the i7 4790k worth the extra $100 for my situation? My current CPU is an AMD A4-5300 Dual Core. (I made the mistake of buying my computer pre-build and have since upgraded everything except for the case, hdd, and CPU.) I would prefer getting this upgrade as soon as possible because my current CPU cannot handle what I need to to play games with friends with Skype and recording. If I go the i5 4690k route I would be able to order it around May 8th. If I go the i7 4790k route I wouldn't be able to order it until the beginning of June. Which if the upgrade to an i7 is not really needed I would not want to wait that long as my computer is beginning to become very, very slow with some newer games I have purchased.(Like GTA V, BF4, and Mortal Combat X.) Here is my current setup: CPU: AMD A4-5300 A-Series APU Dual Core 3.5GHz GPU: GIGABYTE GTX 960 G1 GAMING 2G GDDR5 (Some serious bottleneck on this one with current CPU) PSU: Corsair CX600 MOBO: MSI FM2-A55M-E33 (Upgrading to ASRock Z97 Pro4 with new CPU upgrade) MONITOR: Samsung 1080p, with second old Dell 1280x1024 but this is not used for gaming, just for Skype and recording applications. HDD: 1TB 7200RPM RAM: 8GB 1600 Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Gabe G.