Overheating 4770k

[h3Xx]

Hello mates,

 

I have an 4770k processor running on stock frequency and a AIO water-cooler (h110i GT). As soon as I start Prime95 the HWMonitor hits 100degrees. (Maximus VI Hero is the mobo)

 

Before the h110i I had an Hyper 412S Evo which had the same problem with the temps as the h110i. I replaced the thermal paste several times with the pea technique. Now I am using the thermal paste the 412S came with and I am going to try an MX-4 one of the following days. Unfortunately the paste from h110i was messed up and I didn't test the cooler with it.

 

Right now, I do not know what is the problem and I cannot seem to figure it out and if the MX-4 doesn't do the job I am thinking that I might have the opposite of a golden chip and the paste on IHS is super bad.

 

Any ideas?

[The_Stig]

1. Dont use Prime 95

2. i7 4770K run notoriously hot due to poor thermal material.

3. You may have  broken thermal sensor.

[Hman1250]

If this only does this on Prime95, then that's obviously the reason. Prime95 literally destroys LGA 1150 CPU's, NEVER run any stupid stress tests.

[DominicNikon]

If this only does this on Prime95, then that's obviously the reason. Prime95 literally destroys LGA 1150 CPU's, NEVER run any stupid stress tests.

i suggest adia 64 extreme its a paid program but i bought it

[Matt420740]

MX-4 isn't some super magical wonder material.   If its overheating with the stock paste, its going to overheat with MX-4.

[Shakaza]

1. Dont use Prime 95

2. i7 4770K run notoriously hot due to poor thermal material.

3. You may have  broken thermal sensor.

If this only does this on Prime95, then that's obviously the reason. Prime95 literally destroys LGA 1150 CPU's, NEVER run any stupid stress tests.

Prime95 is fine as long as you don't use adaptive voltage with it, as there was a problem with some versions that caused it to overvolt Haswell CPUs.. It gets hotter than most stress tests because it uses the AVX2.0 instruction set, which adds around 50 watts to the CPU, and is a good test of the worst possible scenario. It is by no means a stupid stress test, and if anything, excessively high temperatures with it is more of an indicator of the user's own fault with their cooling rather than of the program itself.

[h3Xx]

i suggest adia 64 extreme its a paid program but i bought it

 

Thanks for the suggestion I will give it a try.

 

MX-4 isn't some super magical wonder material.   If its overheating with the stock paste, its going to overheat with MX-4.

 

Does it only do it with Prime95? 

 

Yes right now I only saw this high temps on Prime95 but I haven't run many different stress tests. Which ones do you recommend for heat testing?

 

Prime95 is fine as long as you don't use adaptive voltage with it, as there was a problem with some versions that caused it to overvolt Haswell CPUs.. It gets hotter than most stress tests because it uses the AVX2.0 instruction set, which adds around 50 watts to the CPU, and is a good test of the worst possible scenario. It is by no means a stupid stress test, and if anything, excessively high temperatures with it is more of an indicator of the user's own fault with their cooling rather than of the program itself.

 

Well I had an OCed Q6600 which was supposed to have high temps and it was doing better on prime95 than the non OCed 4770k. Also I have the same problem with adaptive voltage off and nor air, nor water cooling made a difference.on 100C and 80C)

 

Edit: Forgot to mention that core #0 is 20degrees hotter than core #3 on load which makes me think that IHS paste might be the problem (or I am doing something very wrong with the thermal paste...)  (adaptive off with voltage at 1.13 core#0 hits 80C while core#3 60C, when with adaptive