Some beginners questions!

vuurwerkfreak · June 28, 2013

Hello,

I'm new to the diy computer world and I have build my pc a little while ago and everything seemed fine, I always had realtemp running on startup and my temperatures went up really slowly without me noticing (talking about 1C/week) until I realized that my core temp was 55 C at idle. But when I pushed against my heatsink and the temperatures quickly went down to about 40 C. Should I remount my cooler with new paste or is it fine? Also I downgraded to Windows 8 and noticed that my CPU seems to boost up the GHz without it being necessarily when (cpu at 3% and running more than 5 GHz) Also task manager says that the maximum speed is 5.90 GHz but my cpu sometimes goes up to 6.26 GHz. If have a few screenshots running prime 95. [Just after login], [high idle], [low idle (very rare)], [load prime 95], [prime 95 results] (note: the cpu load dropped at the 4th test to 80% but it still says 100% till the 8th test).

I did no manual overclocking yet.

But in short: Are these temps fine for a long cpu life? and is it normal (or bad) that my cpu is boosting itself up so much?

Thanks in advance!

*Update

I tried the quick boost level 1 button that comes with easytune 6. When I rebooted my ssd and my hdd weren't detected anymore. I tried to replug the sata cables but no success. I ended up reseting CMOS and my ssd and hdd worked again but task manager still reads these values. I will try to disable Intel Turbo Boost Technologies and see what happens now.
I think it's something with the software (as ExDreamer said)

*2th Update

By disabling Intel Turbo Boost Technologies It doesn't go above the "Maximum speed" from the task manager and I use more % of my CPU when I'm doing normal stuff, I can't really tell if I have less performance because I almost never max out my cpu.

In CPU-z Idle: The Core Speed is now alternating between 1200.00 MHz and 2400.00 MHz
Load: The Core speed is +- 3200.00 MHz

Edited June 28, 2013 by vuurwerkfreak

felixbearpig · June 28, 2013

that is one crazy overclock you have

ExDreamer · June 28, 2013

I'm quite surprise that your pc did not BSOD after reaching that frequency using air cooler.Might be faulty sensor or software though.Have you try check your frequency using cpu-z?

vuurwerkfreak · June 28, 2013

CPU-z

On idle: Core speed alternating between +-3200.00 MHz and +-1200.00 MHz and the multiplier is alternating between x 32.0 and x 12.0. The Core Voltage is between 0.888 V and 0.936 V
On load: Core speed constant 3200.xx MHz and the multiplier is constant x 32. The Core voltage is 1.140 V

I'm quite surprise that your pc did not BSOD after reaching that frequency using air cooler.Might be faulty sensor or software though.Have you try check your frequency using cpu-z?

terrytek · June 28, 2013

Hello,

I'm new to the diy computer world and I have build my pc a little while ago and everything seemed fine, I always had realtemp running on startup and my temperatures went up really slowly without me noticing (talking about 1C/week) until I realized that my core temp was 55 C at idle. But when I pushed against my heatsink and the temperatures quickly went down to about 40 C. Should I remount my cooler with new paste or is it fine? Also I downgraded to Windows 8 and noticed that my CPU seems to boost up the GHz without it being necessarily when (cpu at 3% and running more than 5 GHz) Also task manager says that the maximum speed is 5.90 GHz but my cpu sometimes goes up to 6.26 GHz. If have a few screenshots running prime 95. [Just after login], [high idle], [low idle (very rare)], [load prime 95], [prime 95 results] (note: the cpu load dropped at the 4th test to 80% but it still says 100% till the 8th test).

I did no manual overclocking yet.

But in short: Are these temps fine for a long cpu life? and is it normal (or bad) that my cpu is boosting itself up so much?

Thanks in advance!

ok a few questions...

1. How can u overclock that much (6.26 is what i saw) with just an air cooler? You must be very lucky if ur processor is running that cool at such high frequencies.

2. How can u even downgrade to Windows 8 if 8 is the latest OS?

3. HOW IS UR PROCESSOR NOT THAT HOT????? I mean seriously, even when the processor is under load, u still are at only at like 60 degrees.

vuurwerkfreak · June 28, 2013

1. I don't know why task manager shows these frequencies. I did not overclock anything! It's doing this by itself.

2. The overall experience worse do I call it a downgrade but this is just personal.

3. I don't even know which temperatures are hot and which aren't. That's why I'm asking it

So I don't know either what is going on here.

ok a few questions...

1. How can u overclock that much (6.26 is what i saw) with just an air cooler? You must be very lucky if ur processor is running that cool at such high frequencies.

2. How can u even downgrade to Windows 8 if 8 is the latest OS?

3. HOW IS UR PROCESSOR NOT THAT HOT????? I mean seriously, even when the processor is under load, u still are at only at like 60 degrees.