Will my cpu burn?

[Sashafaux]

Hello gang!

 

I've been gifted a Be quiet! Pure Rock for my birthday/Christmas by a friend and I'd like to know if it's enough to cool my i7 9700k (non-hyperthreaded) with 8 cores.

 

I will solely be doing gaming on my newly built pc paired with a rtx 2060 super and many case fans.

 

Thanks for your answers!

 

[minibois]

It's not the highest performing cooler and will struggle a bit once you start doing some higher overclocks, but at stock it will do just nicely (light overclocking should work too).

[Sashafaux]

If anyone wants to help me further. Because one's opinion is not enough in mine.

[Sashafaux]

1 hour ago, minibois said:

It's not the highest performing cooler and will struggle a bit once you start doing some higher overclocks, but at stock it will do just nicely (light overclocking should work too).

Oh hell yeah! Wasn't planning on overclocking before I got an aio anyways.

[LogicalDrm]

It might be on the hot side. But you can relieve pressure by disable MCE and any other auto-OC feature. And if you want it even cooler, setup offset voltage.

[Sashafaux]

On 1/3/2020 at 7:53 PM, LogicalDrm said:

It might be on the hot side. But you can relieve pressure by disable MCE and any other auto-OC feature. And if you want it even cooler, setup offset voltage.

In the bios? What's the use of Offset Voltage?

[BarackOBatman]

I think it'll be totally fine. Especially without manual overclocking. I'd leave MCE on as it wont auto boost higher than your thermal headroom allows anyway.

Edit: I'm not suggesting that your cpu will run out of thermal headroom either. I personally don't think you will, but if you do, youll be fine. I cant say for sure without testing. But you should give it a whirl, its totally safe to test out at least.

[LogicalDrm]

35 minutes ago, Sashafaux said:

In the bios? What's the use of Offset Voltage?

 

Yes, from BIOS. Offset voltage means that the target voltage is lower than the voltage set in BIOS. So if you are hitting 1.35V (which is very high voltage for Intel) and set -0.05V offset, the actual voltage you get under load would be 1.3V (still high, but much more reasonable if OCing for example).

 

As I don't use these features myself, I would recommend you do some reading if you decide to go with offset. Disabling MCE is much easier to do as its mobo's feature.

 

33 minutes ago, BarackOBatman said:

I think it'll be totally fine. Especially without manual overclocking. I'd leave MCE on as it wont auto boost higher than your thermal headroom allows anyway.

Edit: I'm not suggesting that your cpu will run out of thermal headroom either. I personally don't think you will, but if you do, youll be fine. I cant say for sure without testing. But you should give it a whirl, its totally safe to test out at least.

Problem with MCE is that it tends to use much higher voltage than what is required for the OC its gonna go to. Its the usually the main reason why every Intel chip after Kaby Lake has suffered from high temps with capable coolers. Leaving voltages auto during stress testing did same from Devils Canyon onward before MCE became a feature.

[Boyohan]

On 1/2/2020 at 11:46 PM, Sashafaux said:

Hello gang!

 

I've been gifted a Be quiet! Pure Rock for my birthday/Christmas by a friend and I'd like to know if it's enough to cool my i7 9700k (non-hyperthreaded) with 8 cores.

 

I will solely be doing gaming on my newly built pc paired with a rtx 2060 super and many case fans.

 

Thanks for your answers!

 

It will do fine at stock and maybe some light overclock. 

If you do want to try and overclock with this cooler then I would suggest starting at stock speed slowly increasing your frequency and checking temps at each step. 

You basically can't damage your CPU unless your push it to far to fast.

[BarackOBatman]

30 minutes ago, LogicalDrm said:

Problem with MCE is that it tends to use much higher voltage than what is required for the OC its gonna go to. Its the usually the main reason why every Intel chip after Kaby Lake has suffered from high temps with capable coolers. Leaving voltages auto during stress testing did same from Devils Canyon onward before MCE became a feature.

Good point and I agree. If the OP wants to manually tune, that would be far superior to MCE for thermal reasons and also just for the sake of conserving energy.

If they want to set and forget though, I feel it is okay to leave MCE on.

[Kaaverik]

If you're looking at the technical side, you're good to go for some overclocking! You have a 95w cpu, and the be quiet! Pure Rock is rated for 150w of heat dissipation, which is the perfect amount of headroom for a cpu to run at, with ability to overclock. I'm not too familiar with be quiet! coolers, but since they are optimized for silent operation I would imagine that under heavier load they would do a nice job of dissipating heat with good airflow, while staying on the quieter side, so you would most likely hear a low-pitched whir.

 

To affirm that your computer will not melt, as long as you have a branded power supply (EVGA, Corsair, Cooler Master, etc) and a decent motherboard with capable VRMs, you should be fine. Your system will notify or even perform a self-protective shutdown if your CPU gets too hot. The system will freeze if it is not stable, and settings will return to default.

[Sashafaux]

4 hours ago, BarackOBatman said:

I think it'll be totally fine. Especially without manual overclocking. I'd leave MCE on as it wont auto boost higher than your thermal headroom allows anyway.

Edit: I'm not suggesting that your cpu will run out of thermal headroom either. I personally don't think you will, but if you do, youll be fine. I cant say for sure without testing. But you should give it a whirl, its totally safe to test out at least.

That's very much true. No hurt in testing it out.

[Sashafaux]

2 hours ago, Kaaverik said:

If you're looking at the technical side, you're good to go for some overclocking! You have a 95w cpu, and the be quiet! Pure Rock is rated for 150w of heat dissipation, which is the perfect amount of headroom for a cpu to run at, with ability to overclock. I'm not too familiar with be quiet! coolers, but since they are optimized for silent operation I would imagine that under heavier load they would do a nice job of dissipating heat with good airflow, while staying on the quieter side, so you would most likely hear a low-pitched whir.

 

To affirm that your computer will not melt, as long as you have a branded power supply (EVGA, Corsair, Cooler Master, etc) and a decent motherboard with capable VRMs, you should be fine. Your system will notify or even perform a self-protective shutdown if your CPU gets too hot. The system will freeze if it is not stable, and settings will return to default.

Thanks for the infos king

[Whiro]

On 1/2/2020 at 10:46 PM, Sashafaux said:

Hello gang!

 

I've been gifted a Be quiet! Pure Rock for my birthday/Christmas by a friend and I'd like to know if it's enough to cool my i7 9700k (non-hyperthreaded) with 8 cores.

 

I will solely be doing gaming on my newly built pc paired with a rtx 2060 super and many case fans.

 

Thanks for your answers!

 

Will it burn? Definitely not, with any heatsink you get some sort off cooling, and even before it gets to point of burning it’ll thermal throttle before and system should switch off because of overheating.

This cooler is good enough, not amazing but it’ll do the job

[Bitter]

4 hours ago, Kaaverik said:

If you're looking at the technical side, you're good to go for some overclocking! You have a 95w cpu, and the be quiet! Pure Rock is rated for 150w of heat dissipation, which is the perfect amount of headroom for a cpu to run at, with ability to overclock. I'm not too familiar with be quiet! coolers, but since they are optimized for silent operation I would imagine that under heavier load they would do a nice job of dissipating heat with good airflow, while staying on the quieter side, so you would most likely hear a low-pitched whir.

 

To affirm that your computer will not melt, as long as you have a branded power supply (EVGA, Corsair, Cooler Master, etc) and a decent motherboard with capable VRMs, you should be fine. Your system will notify or even perform a self-protective shutdown if your CPU gets too hot. The system will freeze if it is not stable, and settings will return to default.

Intel rates TDP at base clock at their specified voltage with I believe a non AVX workload. Hit that 95W CPU with a hard AVX workload like a Prime95 small FFT test and it's going to blow right past 95W, to what I don't know because that heavily depends on many factors primarily cooling and voltage. As the silicon temp rises so does the power draw in kind of a run away condition if there's insufficient cooling.

[Kaaverik]

25 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Intel rates TDP at base clock at their specified voltage with I believe a non AVX workload. Hit that 95W CPU with a hard AVX workload like a Prime95 small FFT test and it's going to blow right past 95W, to what I don't know because that heavily depends on many factors primarily cooling and voltage. As the silicon temp rises so does the power draw in kind of a run away condition if there's insufficient cooling.

Right! I almost forgot about that. I recall that my 65w R5 2600 boosts up to 85w under load as well, hovering around there, even though it never gets too hot to throttle. Thank you for the reminder!

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, Kaaverik said:

Right! I almost forgot about that. I recall that my 65w R5 2600 boosts up to 85w under load as well, hovering around there, even though it never gets too hot to throttle. Thank you for the reminder!

Yup, TDP is never what they say it is except under the conditions they specify it which are rarely if ever how the CPU is actually used.

 

Except Nvidia and AMD graphics cards, somehow those are fairly close most of the time.