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I made a system about 4-5 months that I use. Lately I decided to try to overclock for some extra performance. Under stress testing, I got some abnormal temperatures compared to tech sites and other people around on forums. I run a Intel i7-4770k stock clocks and a Asus GTX 770. When I stress tested the 4770k, I got temps at 90-95 degrees celsius cooled with a h100i (!) in Prime 95. My Asus GPU hits the thershold at 80 degrees stock  in Furmark. This makes me wondering how everybody else is getting these overclocks and still remain at a good temp. For additional cooling, I got everthing housed in a Fractal Design Arc Midi R2. 2 Noctua NF-A14 bringing air in as well as I turned a Corsair AF 140 around to be intake fan from the back, just for possitive airflow. 

 

Hope for some good answers and solutions for what I can do to improve my temps.

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4770k always had a bad thermal paste under the heatsink.

 

Try delid it. Or maybe you put the cooler wrong on the CPU, try to Reapply the cooler on it

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Reseat the CPU cooler. Corsair i Series coolers have a retarded mounting mechanism that often leads to the block sitting half on the CPU. It happened to me. I reseated and got a 15 degree drop @ 4.2Ghz.

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4770k always had a bad thermal paste under the heatsink.

 

Try delid it. Or maybe you put the cooler wrong on the CPU, try to Reapply the cooler on it

Deliding is not an option as it is my first computer, and I´m am quite new to the overclocking thang.

 

Reseat the CPU cooler. Corsair i Series coolers have a retarded mounting mechanism that often leads to the block sitting half on the CPU. It happened to me. I reseated and got a 15 degree drop @ 4.2Ghz.

Done this three times already, as well as reseting the thermal compound. Didn´t get any improvements.

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dont use prime for haswell and dont use Furmark at all.

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dont use prime for haswell and dont use Furmark at all.

What should i use then.

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What should i use then.

Aida64, occt for Haswell and games/synthetic benchmarks like heaven and valley for gpus.

Gaming HTPC:

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R9 3900X - Peerless Assassin 120 SE - Asus Prime X570 Pro - Powercolor 7900XT - 32gb LPX 3200mhz - Corsair SF750 Platinum - 1TB WD SN850X - CoolerMaster NR200 White - Gigabyte M27Q-SA - Corsair K70 Rapidfire - Logitech MX518 Legendary - HyperXCloud Alpha wireless


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Hifiman HE-400i - Kennerton Magister - Beyerdynamic DT880 250Ohm - AKG K7XX - Fostex TH-X00 - O2 Amp/DAC Combo - 
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Use OCCT to stress test. Reseat cooler as said before. You should get around 65C with stock clocks. Check what volts are when you are on max CPU use. Those make big difference with 4770K.

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Aida64, occt for Haswell and games/synthetic benchmarks like heaven and valley for gpus.

One of my cores actually hit 90 degrees, causing the test to stop after just 5 minutes.

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Use OCCT to stress test. Reseat cooler as said before. You should get around 65C with stock clocks. Check what volts are when you are on max CPU use. Those make big difference with 4770K.

What do you mean by reseating it? I don´t know if I get what you mean.

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What do you mean by reseating it? I don´t know if I get what you mean.

 

Reseat = Take cooler off CPU. Remove thermal paste and clean both CPU and copper plate of cooler. Apply new thermal paste and place cooler back. Tighten it and try again.

 

Most times when I read high temps on H100/i are because it has been bit loose.

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Reseat = Take cooler off CPU. Remove thermal paste and clean both CPU and copper plate of cooler. Apply new thermal paste and place cooler back. Tighten it and try again.

 

Most times when I read high temps on H100/i are because it has been bit loose.

Think I fix it this time. So after some searching on the interwebs, I noticed that many people were complaining about loose mounting with the H100i. I then went full MacGyver and used the washer from the screws to the H100i and used it with the stand off screws for the cooler. It is much tighter now and temps are now topping 75 in occt.

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Think I fix it this time. So after some searching on the interwebs, I noticed that many people were complaining about loose mounting with the H100i. I then went full MacGyver and used the washer from the screws to the H100i and used it with the stand off screws for the cooler. It is much tighter now and temps are now topping 75 in occt.

 

That sounds better. Reason why temp is still bit on high side for that cooler is because default volts being too high.

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Reseat = Take cooler off CPU. Remove thermal paste and clean both CPU and copper plate of cooler. Apply new thermal paste and place cooler back. Tighten it and try again.

 

Most times when I read high temps on H100/i are because it has been bit loose.

Any solution for this problem?

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Any solution for this problem?

 

You mean volts? You have to set LLC from BIOS to highest possible and manually set volts to something under 1.2V when running on stock clocks. Finding lowest stable volts is part of OC process anyway.

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You mean volts? You have to set LLC from BIOS to highest possible and manually set volts to something under 1.2V when running on stock clocks. Finding lowest stable volts is part of OC process anyway.

Thanks, after some tutorial watching, I have started to overclock and so far I got 4,4 Ghz on 1.25 volts.

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