7700k oc

[ffatyman]

so I oc my 7700k and my friend thinks my temps are running to high i do have it it water cooled with a h110I cooler and silent wing fans. the max tempature was gained by running forza horizon for pc which seems very poorly ported from xbox.

[done12many2]

4 minutes ago, ffatyman said:

so I oc my 7700k and my friend thinks my temps are running to high i do have it it water cooled with a h110I cooler and silent wing fans. the max tempature was gained by running forza horizon for pc which seems very poorly ported from xbox.

 

Temps seem normal for gaming temps.

 

Put a real load on it with something like RealBench stress test or AIDA64 and let us know what those temps are.  

 

Oh, and switch to Celsius.  Nobody really uses Fahrenheit while talking about PCs. 

[ffatyman]

so about that 200^F is the safest or within reason?

 

[done12many2]

1 minute ago, ffatyman said:

so about that 200^F is the safest or within reason?

 

 

Yeah, I didn't look at your max column.  You really need to switch to Celsius man.

 

Anyways, you're at 90c + which is definitely hot.  Our 7700k CPUs start to throttle in the area of 95c.

 

Why are you running 1.41v for just 4.94 GHz?  That's high for that clockspeed unless you got a hold of a lower grade chip.

[Enderman]

12 minutes ago, ffatyman said:

so about that 200^F is the safest or within reason?

 

It's a lil too high.

I would try reseating the cooler, and cleaning off and replacing the thermal paste with some NT-H1 or MX-4 or something like that.

1.4v is a bit high, try lowering it below 1.4v too if the thermal paste doesn't help.

[itsmyjobtoknow]

So the highest temp you got is 199F....convert that to Celsius and it's about 92C-93C

That is a bit high for my personal taste

[ffatyman]

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

It's a lil too high.

I would try reseating the cooler, and cleaning off and replacing the thermal paste with some NT-H1 or MX-4 or something like that.

1.4v is a bit high, try lowering it below 1.4v too if the thermal paste doesn't help.

Okay so I will try to find some of that paste i Just used the stock paste and look into the voltage would i be aiming more for the 1.3v or so?

 

[Enderman]

4 minutes ago, ffatyman said:

Okay so I will try to find some of that paste i Just used the stock paste and look into the voltage would i be aiming more for the 1.3v or so?

 

I personally wouldn't go over 1.35v, which should keep your temps below 90C which is safe.

[done12many2]

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[ffatyman]

5 minutes ago, Enderman said:

I personally wouldn't go over 1.35v, which should keep your temps below 90C which is safe.

I think I need to reset my bios because the voltages just are not adding up, or im in the wrong place

 

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, ffatyman said:

I think I need to reset my bios because the voltages just are not adding up, or im in the wrong place

 

You need to disable auto, otherwise the software decides what voltage to use and that's probably why it's so high.

Set the voltage manually, the software overestimates what you need.

Also, at idle it will be lower (like the 1.1v you can see in the image) because the CPU is not needing more voltage.

[ffatyman]

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

You need to disable auto, otherwise the software decides what voltage to use and that's probably why it's so high.

Set the voltage manually, the software overestimates what you need.

Also, at idle it will be lower (like the 1.1v you can see in the image) because the CPU is not needing more voltage.

Okay I'm assuming  right where my mouse was hovering is what I should change.

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, ffatyman said:

Okay I'm assuming  right where my mouse was hovering is what I should change.

Yep, also check out "asus motherboard overclocking" guides on youtube if you want to know more details.

[ffatyman]

16 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Yep, also check out "asus motherboard overclocking" guides on youtube if you want to know more details.

okay so i changed the voltage down to 1.25~ ill run the bench/stress tester in the morning cause i need to get to bed for work in the morning thank you guys for the help ill be on later tomorrow with updates.

 

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, ffatyman said:

okay so i changed the voltage down to 1.25~ ill run the bench/stress tester in the morning cause i need to get to bed for work in the morning thank you guys for the help ill be on later tomorrow with updates.

 

I doubt it will be stable at 4.9GHz with only 1.25v, but it's a good start  you know how to overclock.

[ffatyman]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

I doubt it will be stable at 4.9GHz with only 1.25v, but it's a good start  you know how to overclock.

yeah I had it crash on me once but i interrupted the benchmark test and, yeah... I just need to educate myself some more this is my only personal build i've ever done and im still trying to work out the kinks. but i do appreciate the help!