Thermal Craziness

[Sturalke]

I bought myself a new computer a few weeks ago, and I just now noticed that, when stress testing, the CPU skyrockets from 24C to about 60C to 70C within the one second interval for temputature polling in both Aida64 and NZXT's CAM software. It has me stumped and a bit perturbed. The GPU is a hybrid card that, in theory, keeps excess heat from releasing into the case, but it's not even running during a CPU stress test. I'm using Tuniq TX-4 thermal paste which should be very high quality, and I've already checked the seating of the cooler. Nothing wrong to report there. Any ideas?

 

It seems that while folding the liquid temperature never rises above 44C well over an hour into a WU.

 

System specs:

CPU: i7-6700k

Cooler: Kraken x61 (top mounted, exhaust, push config)

Motherboard: ASUS Z170-A

RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2400MHz 32GB(4x8GB)

GPU: EVGA 980TI Hybrid (rear mounted rad, exhaust, push config)

Fans: 2x Kraken, 1x 980TI, 3 front case fans (intake)

 

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[Godlygamer23]

How much thermal paste did you apply?

 

Edit: Just noticed your voltage is pretty high.

Edited November 18, 2015 by Godlygamer23

[TheSLSAMG]

The voltage is startlingly high, turn it down. 1.472V was okay back in the Sandy Bridge days, but not now (especially not without a cooling system that can handle it.)

[Sturalke]

How much thermal paste did you apply?

After having watched Linus's build logs so many times, I applied slightly more than the volume of a grain of rice.

[Sturalke]

The voltage is startlingly high, turn it down. 1.472V was okay back in the Sandy Bridge days, but not now (especially not without a cooling system that can handle it.)

I didn't actually set that. How would I go about limiting it rather than making it a static value?

[TheSLSAMG]

I didn't actually set that. How would I go about limiting it rather than making it a static value?

You have to go into your BIOS and do a few things. First, make sure there are no automatic overclocks being done to the CPU. It's at 4.6GHz, so it's possible unless you did that. Turn voltage from adaptive to static and set a voltage. I haven't fooled around with Skylake as of yet, so I can't make suggestions regarding voltage past staying under 1.325V.

[W-L]

I didn't actually set that. How would I go about limiting it rather than making it a static value?

 

Did you put it on auto for core voltage cause that's extremely high voltage for your CPU, usually you want to keep it below 1.3-1.35V for a watercooling. If your doing overclocking keep it on manual mode when your testing things still.

[Sturalke]

You have to go into your BIOS and do a few things. First, make sure there are no automatic overclocks being done to the CPU. It's at 4.6GHz, so it's possible unless you did that. Turn voltage from adaptive to static and set a voltage. I haven't fooled around with Skylake as of yet, so I can't make suggestions regarding voltage past staying under 1.325V.

 

Did you put it on auto for core voltage cause that's extremely high voltage for your CPU, usually you want to keep it below 1.3-1.35V for a watercooling. If your doing overclocking keep it on manual mode when your testing things still.

I'm on it. I was hoping to avoid fiddling with voltages and such. I did just learn that the board is applying a "15%" overclock, however. I'll turn that off and go from there.