varm cpu

[plankan]

hi i posted a question about my overheating cpu not long ago. and since then i have bought a new cooler upgrading from cooler master tx3 to be quiet dark rock 3 pro.

 

but still my cpu runs pretty warm and i cant figure out why. can it be bad thermal compound inside the cpu ?.

 

as it is now with the dark rock cooler and the thermal compound it came with i get a good

 

30-40degrees on hwmonitors "cpu" temp

around 20-30 on the package

and around 30 on the mobo IDLE

 

with prime 95 running and the same with demanding games and 3dmark the cpu runs at around 60-63 and package around 50-60.

 

i tryed the automatic overclock from asus and got to 4.2 at 1.3V then i was back at the 65 degres that i had on stock clock with the tx3 cooler.

 

and the weird thing. yesterday when using prime95 i put my hand on the cooler and barley warm, but still 60 degrees on the cpu

 

[iamdarkyoshi]

What cpu? Some have poor thermal paste between the silicon die and the top metal cap on the cpu. My sandy bridge for example, it doesnt have this issue. The cap and die are soldered together. For one that isnt soldered, you can "delid" the cpu. Look it up before trying though

[ThatOneGuyThatFlew]

What CPU is it and you have to make sure the paste covers all the cores

[typographie]

with prime 95 running and the same with demanding games and 3dmark the cpu runs at around 60-63 and package around 50-60.

 

i tryed the automatic overclock from asus and got to 4.2 at 1.3V then i was back at the 65 degres that i had on stock clock with the tx3 cooler.

 

and the weird thing. yesterday when using prime95 i put my hand on the cooler and barley warm, but still 60 degrees on the cpu

 

None of these temperatures (except maybe 40*C if that's an actual idle temperature) are particularly high. A mere 60*C in Prime95 sounds almost impossibly low to me.

[roastduck]

Sorry, but am I the only one who sees no issue with a CPU overclocked to 4.2GHz at 65 degrees?

edit: apparently not, thank goodness

[typographie]

Sorry, but am I the only one who sees no issue with a CPU overclocked to 4.2GHz at 65 degrees?

edit: apparently not, thank goodness

 

With a ~$20 Hyper TX3, no less.  :blink:

[iamdarkyoshi]

With a ~$20 Hyper TX3, no less. :blink:

my brothers old pc reached about 50 degrees with prime95 and the stock cooler. It was an i3. But we dont know ops cpu

[ThatOneGuyThatFlew]

Sorry, but am I the only one who sees no issue with a CPU overclocked to 4.2GHz at 65 degrees?

edit: apparently not, thank goodness

depends if he's talking fahrenheit or celsius

[plankan]

20 degrees idle with dark rock 3 pro around 50 with the tx3

 

sorry forgot the mention the cpu but its an 8320 the one with 125w tdp and on a asus m5a97r2 and all temps are in celcius.

[iamdarkyoshi]

20 degrees idle with dark rock 3 pro around 50 with the tx3

 

sorry forgot the mention the cpu but its an 8320 the one with 125w tdp and on a asus m5a97r2 and all temps are in celcius.

Damn! My 3930k has 5w more and folds at 60 degrees on a 212 evo

[plankan]

yeah exactly why i feel its to warm and if the cpu is so damn warm wouldnt the cooler be really warm ?

[LogicalDrm]

yeah exactly why i feel its to warm and if the cpu is so damn warm wouldnt the cooler be really warm ?

Because your hand isn't very accurate way to measure temps. And because of the way heatsinks work. Its hot near CPU and gets cooler farther away. The heatpipes are filled with liquid which transfers heat away from CPU and to fins. On top of cooler liquid is coolest and so are the fins.