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[Guest]

About a week and a half after my build, I've noticed that one of the cores is consistently 1-4°C higher than the rest. This is Core #1, in other words the second core.

 

This is what it looks like at idle

 

This is what it looks like at load in F@H, it hasn't settled yet, it normally settles at 51°, 54°, 51° and 49° respectively.

 

Should I be worried about these temperature differences? I think I might have shifted the cooler around a bit while trying to mount it. I'm using the NT-H1 that came with my cooler.

It's a lot cooler than what I was coming from (79°C load on stock cooler), but I didn't see that kind of disparity before.

[MegaDave91]

Looks normal. There's always a hotter core from the rest.

[MrYuriy]

No, this is completely normal.

 

The cores can run on different temperatures. And even more so, 90% of the time there is 1-2 that run either slightly cooler or warmer.

 

Nothing to worry about at all. It happens to a lot of people.

[Wtalk2]

This is totally normal for CPU's. Your's isn't even that bad, my 3570K at load Core 0 will run at around 58C and Core 1 will run at around 65C. It is a bit odd and worrying but there is nothing to worry about, those temps are fine and that is a normal occurrence.

[deathjester]

About a week and a half after my build, I've noticed that one of the cores is consistently 1-4°C higher than the rest. This is Core #1, in other words the second core.

 

This is what it looks like at idle

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This is what it looks like at load in F@H, it hasn't settled yet, it normally settles at 51°, 54°, 51° and 49° respectively.

isthisalsonormal.png

 

Should I be worried about these temperature differences? I think I might have shifted the cooler around a bit while trying to mount it. I'm using the NT-H1 that came with my cooler.

It's a lot cooler than what I was coming from (79°C load on stock cooler), but I didn't see that kind of disparity before.

 

Around 70ish is fine at full load on newer Intel's. Closer to 80 can be fine on a synthetic like prime/aida that you will never see rendering. Under that is all gravy. Core temp differences are fine. Prime can run super hot after round 1 and those temps are never gonna happen

 

Max temp you are ever going to see in real world? Try Asus real bench h.264 or run a Cinebench r15 and look at the spike. If you are in the low 70's you are fine. Below 70 ideal.

 

50 C at load? Whatever program you are using that is fantastic. If it is prime or Aida? Really fantastic. You got nothing to worry about. 

[Guest]

Folding @ Home

 

I don't and can't OC so my temps are max 55°C with a NH-U9B, F@H stresses CPU about as hard as Prime95 so i ran prime95 for about 15minutes and it settled at the same temps. Plus E3-1230V2 doesn't have the HD4000 iGPU, so its TDP is only 69W compared to the 3770 77W (those 70+ figures were from a 3770).

 

I'll try those benchmarks and see what results I get.

[Jedicake]

100% normal. You should see how I feel with one core being 10 degrees hotter than the others 

[Opcode]

Cores won't all run at the same temperature, some like to run hotter than others. The only thing important is that your temperatures are acceptable, in which case they are. I don't see any reason to mess with it, if you're not going over 55C at full load then you're well below the chips limit of 69C.