4790K and 212 Evo too hot

[Wingfan]

I have remounted the cooler 3 times and the same result.  All CPU settings are stock, no OC.

 

Any help would be great.

 

[Guest]

I suspect you replace the thermal compound when remounting the cooler. You could tweak the fan curve to be more aggressive, but I am generally surprised by the result bc. with a 8600K at 5GHz, 1.25v I would reach max. 80C on the hottest core with a H212 EVO. How is the airflow in the case? Is there a GPU that produces a lot of heat?

[Tan3l6]

I think cooler is somewhat slanted on top of IHS 

... as 2 cores are fine.

[Fasauceome]

with only one core reaching 100, seems like a possibility that the paste underneath the IHS is uneven which would suck

[Mateyyy]

Either not all of the cooler's holddown screws are tight enough, or there's something wrong with the thermal paste between the IHS and cooler plate, or the paste underneath the IHS has gone bad, which wouldn't necessarily be a surprise as it's quite well known that the TIM used by Intel for Haswell chips was pretty much crap.

[Tan3l6]

Yeah, delid (plus liquid metal) would show an improvement.

 

If it's not soldered, delid it! (plus liquid metal)

[Wingfan]

28 minutes ago, Konrad_K said:

I suspect you replace the thermal compound when remounting the cooler. You could tweak the fan curve to be more aggressive, but I am generally surprised by the result bc. with a 8600K at 5GHz, 1.25v I would reach max. 80C on the hottest core with a H212 EVO. How is the airflow in the case? Is there a GPU that produces a lot of heat?

Thermal paste, Thermal Grizzly, reapplied every time. Case has 2 x 120's in the front and 1 rear. GPU is idle when i run CPU stressers

22 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

with only one core reaching 100, seems like a possibility that the paste underneath the IHS is uneven which would suck

This CPU was fine before the 212 Evo. Had a Corsair H105 on it.

15 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

Either not all of the cooler's holddown screws are tight enough, or there's something wrong with the thermal paste between the IHS and cooler plate, or the paste underneath the IHS has gone bad, which wouldn't necessarily be a surprise as it's quite well known that the TIM used by Intel for Haswell chips was pretty much crap.

I used this CPU since 2014, never any temp problems.

[Wingfan]

I have an i3 im going to put it, i know its not a hot CPU, but if all cores are are close to eual under load would that be confirmation that it would be the i7?

[Wingfan]

The i3-4170 is fine with the cooler, but i guess that doesnt mean to much with a dual core. 
I do see a very slight gap, very, on the bracket that attach's to the cooler. Im thinking this is the problem?  But its so small i doubt it.

Would like to get this fixed because i may have a buyer for this PC. ( without a GPU )