CPU Temperature Paranoia

[Sturmgewehr_44]

I am suffering from a probably dying sleeve bearing fan. It emits this awful grinding indicating it is running out of lube. I turned it down because it could get irritating and give me a headache. Surely enough, my temps seem to have risen. In BF4, I saw Rivatuner report my core temps at over 74c at times, which is certainly abnormal.

 

I set my dying front intake fan's rpm back to normal, and it is making whining and buzzsaw/white noise sounds, but my temps are still a tad high, at least from what I perceived/remembered.

 

How demanding is 3Dmark Firestrike's Physics Test? I usually go into the early 70s on my CPU on it. Today, I saw up to 75c. Is this normal?

 

Is Front Intake really that vital in a mid-tower? 

 

Cinebench was also wielding some frightening results. I observed a max core temp of probably 86c. Is this normal or in-range of what one would expect with a stock 4790k with an H80i GT? Idles could be better as well, but it is/was humid out (with some air conditioning), so does that make all of this somewhat redundant?

[Sam Z Man]

Are you really putting your PC at risk over a single fan, go buy a new one for Pete's sake.

[Silyy097]

Woah, 86 Deg C with a water cooler with stock speeds? Get a new fan bro.

[CoolaxGaming]

Is your cooler mounted properly?

[SImoHayha]

 

GET A NEW FAN

[Sturmgewehr_44]

Are you really putting your PC at risk over a single fan, go buy a new one for Pete's sake.

I'm not reaching TJ Max, so I would not say it is at "risk".

 

I am also using multiple fans. My front intake is a Coolermaster LED 200mm fan. It is probably dying.

 

I am using two NF-F12s in the top.

 

I have two IPPC NF-F12s mounted to my radiator in addition to all of this.

 

I cannot confirm for sure, but my temperatures yesterday were likely a result of heat. It was very humid, and could of forced those temperatures.

 

Cinebench runs in the high 60s on two cores and mid 70s on the others. I would say that is better, but I do not know the average temperature thresholds a Haswell or Haswell Refresh CPU can get on it. Does Cinebench OpenCL utilise AVX 2.0? That could explain the temps.

[Moetrain]

What is a little warm and humid to you? Outside temps here have been over 70*F(low) for the last month, and have gotten into the 90's for a number of those days.

 

I keep my house at a fairly consistent 70-75*F and with my tower folding at full power all night it is sitting at 50*C on the CPU and GPU.

Given I am running air cooled on a hyper 212 evo using all 6 cores for the last 24hrs I am seriously rethinking ever switching to water cooling with a single slot rad..

 

I'm not reaching TJ Max, so I would not say it is at "risk".

 

I am also using multiple fans. My front intake is a Coolermaster LED 200mm fan. It is probably dying.

 

I am using two NF-F12s in the top.

 

I have two IPPC NF-F12s mounted to my radiator in addition to all of this.

 

I cannot confirm for sure, but my temperatures yesterday were likely a result of heat. It was very humid, and could of forced those temperatures.

 

Cinebench runs in the high 60s on two cores and mid 70s on the others. I would say that is better, but I do not know the average temperature thresholds a Haswell or Haswell Refresh CPU can get on it. Does Cinebench OpenCL utilise AVX 2.0? That could explain the temps.

[Sturmgewehr_44]

What is a little warm and humid to you? Outside temps here have been over 70*F(low) for the last month, and have gotten into the 90's for a number of those days.

 

I keep my house at a fairly consistent 70-75*F and with my tower folding at full power all night it is sitting at 50*C on the CPU and GPU.

Given I am running air cooled on a hyper 212 evo using all 6 cores for the last 24hrs I am seriously rethinking ever switching to water cooling with a single slot rad..

That seems very impressive. So much that I find it hard to believe for a hex-core using a Hyper 212 Evo. I used to have one back when I was on Z77. It didn't cool very well. I got better P95 temps, but that must be because Haswell does not sit well with it.

 

It is around 72F here. I consider that to be fairly balmy, plus the humidity that arises from it. I'm not used to temperatures in the 90s. I'm from Massachusetts. It can get as low as -10F during Winter.

 

Looking back, a few weeks ago I was getting a max Physics Test temp of 70c. I changed nothing since then. It must just be ambient wrecking havoc on me again. Once I get air condition on, maybe I'll see something different.

 

Is Folding very capable of causing high CPU temperatures? I have never used it, so depending on that it may be different.

[Moetrain]

I'm sure it isn't as stressful as benchmarking, but it has been running nonstop at this level for a few days now.

[Sturmgewehr_44]

I'm sure it isn't as stressful as benchmarking, but it has been running nonstop at this level for a few days now.

Oh. You're using an AMD CPU though.

 

It is probably partially related to ambients. However, I am not sure. 

 

I just used Asus' "Fan Calibration" tool in the Uefi. It slowed my idle rpms to very, very low. I do not know why. Is this trustworthy?

 

I am most concerned about BF4. I get temperatures in the 70s easily, which is strange compared to most games. Even a maxed out GTAV stays in the late 50s.