Temperature Tests

[SpotlessGregYT]

So, today I recieved my new case: NZXT H440, which was a massive upgrade from my older S340 in terms of cooling capacity.

 

The air coming out from the top and rear exhausts is WAYYYY cooler now. Before when gaming my CPU would stay at around 45-50C (corsair H100I GTX water cooling)

Now its 30-35. 

 

So I do a TON of CPU related work, I am a youtuber and do video and photo editing on a regular basis and I just ran a full on hardcore CPU killer test of my own. btw my cpu is a I7 4790K

 

The test I did is rendered a video in 4k60fps quality, using CPU only (I mostly render in 1080p60, using cuda cores aswell as CPU, but here i want to test my CPU) to get 100% steady CPU load, the rendering went on for 1 hour and the peak CPU temperature was 81C.

 

What do you guys think of this? Also the fans were operating at 40% speed and PUMP at 70%

[Gonio]

Seems fine to me. 81 C I find to hot, but seems you have headroom for your cooling to cool better if you wanted at the cost of more noise.

 

Glad you like the case, so have fun with it mon

[scottyseng]

1 hour ago, SpotlessGregYT said:

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That temp is a bit too hot for my taste, I would adjust the fan curve a bit to kick in more at the 70C mark. Usually I see thermal throttling at 83-85C (You can tell if the CPU clock jumps up and down using a program like CPU-Z).

 

If you really want to heat the CPU up, get Intel Burn Test. The first time you attempt to open it, it will crash and windows will nag you if you want to install features needed to run it (It needs .net 3.0) and just let windows install it. After it installs, you'll be able to run IntelBurnTest. Run it on the maximum preset (Note, it will suck your RAM away from you) and watch your CPU get really really hot. It's also great for testing overclocks.