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Update: *Final Fantasy victory theme* Found the turbo setting from bios, it was under CPU power settings and now I'm getting 3.69Ghz, ~1.015V to my cores, max CPU temp during Cinebench at +59C. Problem solved!

Checked and confirmed, enough paste and mount is secured..

General Information Processor Name: Intel Core i7-8700K Original Processor Frequency: 3700.0 MHz CPU ID: 000906EA CPU Brand Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel CPU Stepping: U0 CPU Code Name: Coffee Lake-S CPU Technology: 14 nm CPU S-Spec: SR3QR CPU Thermal Design Power (TDP): 95.0 W CPU Power Limits (Max): Power = Unlimited, Time = Unlimited CPU Power Limit 1 - Long Duration: Power = Unlimited, Time = 8.00 sec [Unlocked] CPU Power Limit 2 - Short Duration: Power = Unlimited, Time = 2.44 ms [Unlocked] CPU Max. Junction Temperature (Tj,max): 100 °C CPU Type: Production Unit CPU Platform: Socket H4 (LGA1151) Microcode Update Revision: 96 Favored Cores List: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Number of CPU Cores: 6 Number of Logical CPUs: 12 Operating Points CPU LFM (Minimum): 800.0 MHz = 8 x 100.0 MHz CPU HFM (Base): 3700.0 MHz = 37 x 100.0 MHz CPU Turbo Max: 4700.0 MHz = 47 x 100.0 MHz [Unlocked] Turbo Ratio Limits - IA/SSE: 47x (1-6c) Turbo Ratio Limits - AVX2, Resolved: 47x (1-6c) CPU Current: 4698.9 MHz = 47 x 100.0 MHz @ 1.2993 V LLC/Ring Maximum: 4400.0 MHz = 44.00 x 100.0 MHz LLC/Ring Current: 4398.9 MHz = 44.00 x 100.0 MHz System Agent Current: 999.8 MHz = 10.00 x 100.0 MHz CPU Bus Type: Intel Direct Media Interface (DMI) v3.0 Maximum DMI Link Speed: 8.0 GT/s Current DMI Link Speed: 8.0 GT/s Number of Overclocking Bins: Unlimited Ring to Core Offset: Enabled IA Overclocking Voltage Offset: Supported Voltage Override: Supported Ratio Overclocking: Supported Fused Ratio Limit: 83x OC Ratio Limit: N/A Voltage Mode: Interpolative Voltage Offset: 0 mV IccMax: 255.50 A GT (Slice) Overclocking Voltage Offset: Supported Voltage Override: Supported Ratio Overclocking: Supported Fused Ratio Limit: 60x OC Ratio Limit: 24x Voltage Mode: Interpolative Voltage Offset: 0 mV IccMax: 255.50 A CLR (CBo/LLC/Ring) Overclocking Voltage Offset: Supported Voltage Override: Supported Ratio Overclocking: Supported Fused Ratio Limit: 83x OC Ratio Limit: N/A Voltage Mode: Interpolative Voltage Offset: 0 mV IccMax: 255.50 A GT (Unslice) Overclocking Voltage Offset: Supported Voltage Override: Supported Ratio Overclocking: Supported Fused Ratio Limit: 60x OC Ratio Limit: 24x Voltage Mode: Interpolative Voltage Offset: 0 mV IccMax: 255.50 A Uncore/SA Overclocking Voltage Offset: Supported Voltage Override: Not Supported Ratio Overclocking: Not Supported Fused Ratio Limit: N/A OC Ratio Limit: N/A Voltage Mode: Interpolative Voltage Offset: 0 mV IccMax: 20.00 A Cache and TLB L1 Cache: Instruction: 6 x 32 KBytes, Data: 6 x 32 KBytes L2 Cache: Integrated: 6 x 256 KBytes L3 Cache: 12 MBytes Instruction TLB: 2MB/4MB Pages, Fully associative, 8 entries Data TLB: 4 KB Pages, 4-way set associative, 64 entries Standard Feature Flags FPU on Chip Present Enhanced Virtual-86 Mode Present I/O Breakpoints Present Page Size Extensions Present Time Stamp Counter Present Pentium-style Model Specific Registers Present Physical Address Extension Present Machine Check Exception Present CMPXCHG8B Instruction Present APIC On Chip / PGE (AMD) Present Fast System Call Present Memory Type Range Registers Present Page Global Feature Present Machine Check Architecture Present CMOV Instruction Present Page Attribute Table Present 36-bit Page Size Extensions Present Processor Number Not Present CLFLUSH Instruction Present Debug Trace and EMON Store Present Internal ACPI Support Present MMX Technology Present Fast FP Save/Restore (IA MMX-2) Present Streaming SIMD Extensions Present Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 Present Self-Snoop Present Multi-Threading Capable Present Automatic Clock Control Present IA-64 Processor Not Present Signal Break on FERR Present Virtual Machine Extensions (VMX) Present Safer Mode Extensions (Intel TXT) Present Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 Present Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 Present Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.1 Present Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2 Present AVX Support Present Fused Multiply Add (FMA) Present Carryless Multiplication (PCLMULQDQ)/GFMUL Present CMPXCHG16B Support Present MOVBE Instruction Present POPCNT Instruction Present XSAVE/XRSTOR/XSETBV/XGETBV Instructions Present XGETBV/XSETBV OS Enabled Present Float16 Instructions Present AES Cryptography Support Present Random Number Read Instruction (RDRAND) Present Extended xAPIC Present MONITOR/MWAIT Support Present Thermal Monitor 2 Present Enhanced SpeedStep Technology Present L1 Context ID Not Present Send Task Priority Messages Disabling Present Processor Context ID Present Direct Cache Access Not Present TSC-deadline Timer Present Performance/Debug Capability MSR Present IA32 Debug Interface Support Present 64-Bit Debug Store Present CPL Qualified Debug Store Present Extended Feature Flags 64-bit Extensions Present RDTSCP and TSC_AUX Support Present 1 GB large page support Present No Execute Present SYSCALL/SYSRET Support Present Bit Manipulation Instructions Set 1 Present Bit Manipulation Instructions Set 2 Present Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2) Present Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) Not Present AVX-512 Prefetch Instructions Not Present AVX-512 Exponential and Reciprocal Instructions Not Present AVX-512 Conflict Detection Instructions Not Present AVX-512 Doubleword and Quadword Instructions Not Present AVX-512 Byte and Word Instructions Not Present AVX-512 Vector Length Extensions Not Present AVX-512 52-bit Integer FMA Instructions Not Present Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) Extensions Not Present Software Guard Extensions (SGX) Support Present Supervisor Mode Execution Protection (SMEP) Present Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) Present Hardware Lock Elision (HLE) Present Restricted Transactional Memory (RTM) Present Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) Present Read/Write FS/GS Base Instructions Present Enhanced Performance String Instruction Present INVPCID Instruction Present RDSEED Instruction Present Multi-precision Add Carry Instructions (ADX) Present PCOMMIT Instructions Not Present CLFLUSHOPT Instructions Present CLWB Instructions Not Present TSC_THREAD_OFFSET Present Platform Quality of Service Monitoring (PQM) Not Present Platform Quality of Service Enforcement (PQE) Not Present FPU Data Pointer updated only on x87 Exceptions Not Present Deprecated FPU CS and FPU DS Present Intel Processor Trace Present PREFETCHWT1 Instruction Not Present AVX-512 Vector Bit Manipulation Instructions Not Present AVX-512 Vector Bit Manipulation Instructions 2 Not Present AVX-512 Galois Fields New Instructions Not Present AVX-512 Vector AES Not Present AVX-512 Vector Neural Network Instructions Not Present AVX-512 Bit Algorithms Not Present AVX-512 Carry-Less Multiplication Quadword (VPCLMULQDQ) Not Present AVX-512 Vector POPCNT (VPOPCNTD/VPOPCNTQ) Not Present User-Mode Instruction Prevention Not Present Protection Keys for User-mode Pages Not Present OS Enabled Protection Keys Not Present Wait and Pause Enhancements (WAITPKG) Not Present Total Memory Encryption Not Present Read Processor ID Not Present Cache Line Demote Not Present MOVDIRI: Direct Stores Not Present MOVDIR64B: Direct Stores Not Present ENQCMD: Enqueue Stores Not Present SGX Launch Configuration Present Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) Shadow Stack Not Present AVX-512 BFLOAT16 Instructions Not Present Enhanced Features Thermal Monitor 1: Supported, Enabled Thermal Monitor 2: Supported, Enabled Enhanced Intel SpeedStep (GV3): Supported, Enabled Bi-directional PROCHOT#: Enabled Extended Auto-HALT State C1E: Enabled MLC Streamer Prefetcher Supported, Enabled MLC Spatial Prefetcher Supported, Enabled DCU Streamer Prefetcher Supported, Enabled DCU IP Prefetcher Supported, Enabled Intel Dynamic Acceleration (IDA) Technology: Not Supported Intel Dynamic FSB Switching: Not Supported Intel Turbo Boost Technology: Supported, Enabled Programmable Ratio Limits: Supported, Disabled Programmable TDC/TDP Limits: Supported, Disabled Hardware Duty Cycling: Supported, Enabled CPU SKU Features Display HD Audio: Supported DMI x4: Supported DRAM ECC: Not Supported VT-d: Supported DMI in Gen2 Mode: Supported PEG in Gen2 Mode: Supported 1N Mode DDR Timings: Supported Camarillo Device: Supported 2 DIMMs per Channel: Supported X2APIC: Supported Dual Memory Channel: Supported Integrated GPU: Enabled DDR Overclocking: Enabled Overclocking by DSKU: Enabled DDR3L: Supported Maximum Memory Size per Channel: 64 GB (unlimited) DDR Frequency Support (100 MHz RefClk): 1300 MHz Overclocking: Enabled SMT: Supported Additive Graphics: Supported Additive Graphics: Enabled PCIe Gen 3: Supported DMI Gen 3: Supported HDCP: Supported DDR4: Supported LPDDR3: Not Supported BCLK OC Limit: 100 MHz Maximum Supported LPDDR3 Frequency: 1067 MHz Maximum Supported DDR4 Frequency: 1333 MHz SVID Status: Enabled Voltage Regulator (SVID) VCC VR: ON Semi ASP1400B, IMVP8 VR Thermal Sensor: Supported Memory Ranges Maximum Physical Address Size: 39-bit (512 GBytes) Maximum Virtual Address Size: 48-bit (256 TBytes) MTRRs Range E0000000-100000000 (3584MB-4096MB) Type: Uncacheable (UC) Range D0000000-E0000000 (3328MB-3584MB) Type: Uncacheable (UC) Range C8000000-D0000000 (3200MB-3328MB) Type: Uncacheable (UC)

HWiNFO64 is a new program to me but I gave it a try, here's a report in a form of HTM HWiNFO64 results.HTM

Took a better screenshot at Win10, CinebenchR20 running in the background! EDIT: Chassis Fan #1 should be the Noctua casefan bottom front as an intake fan.

MCE was actually auto, so I put it 'disabled' now and tried again. And in my opinion the overall score results are a bit better. Temps during the CinebenchR20: Ambient max temp +72C CPU Package max temp +89 Was a bit unsure about the voltages so I'll just attach a screenshot instead. Note that the screenshot was taken on the MacOS(Hackintosh) side of the build. What I've noticed the results seem to be identical no matter of the OS I was on (Win10 or MacOS High Sierra)

Update: Bought NH-U12A and 2 NF-A14 case fans. I put one A14 to the front bottom and one to the top, I already had one 120mm fan coming with the case so total number of case fans is 3 now. I also checked the directions of the fans so the airflow will be now from the front bottom inside pushing the air, and from behind top pushing the air outside of the case. Same with the U12A. CPU max temp around ~ +89C during Cinebench, so we are actually getting forward. Any tips to make it even better? I read somewhere if the BIOS CPU Core/Cache voltage is set to auto it will most certainly make it a little bit hotter than what is necessary.

Idle temp seems to be +41C at the BIOS screen. Seems like I've been too hasty with my new build and didn't even thought of concept 'airflow'.. I'll prevent using my desktop for now and get some case fans and the new cooler once easter holidays are gone!

I've actually been thinking of buying NH-U12A, was a bit unsure but this post clearly proved that it's a good investment to upgrade it! Thank you!

Hi! My CPU is pretty much getting +100C at Cinebench, and usually at gaming Elder Scrolls Online it's going around +80-100C. Heres my build: Asus Z370-F GAMING i7-8700K 16Gb Hyper X Fury DDR4 2666MHz Corsair 650W VS650 ATX Noctua NH-L9X65 I just changed thermal paste, and tried changing the CPU Core/Cache voltage to adaptive at 1.15V but it only made it worse. Temps jumped to +95-100C the second I pressed "Run" at Cinebench. I'm honestly clueless, thus I'm seeking some help from LTT Forums. Thank you in advance.