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Only Kabylake are having problems with temps as far as i know, i never had an issue with mine ? it's normal for the cores to have a variance up to 10c. I would guess you have everything in BIOS on auto and you're overvolting  ;)

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Hey everyone!

 

I know this seems like a thread that happens over and over and over, but I think my case might be a little bit different...

 

I purchased an Intel 6700k a while back, disregarding the issues with temperatures spikes people were having, and I think I may have come across a fairly awful unit compared to others.  I can't even run most CPU benchmarks without worrying about whether or not my CPU will fry.  I've tried everything from air cooled, AIO, and custom loop cooling.  Even with my EK custom loop with FOUR total fans on a 240 mm radiator, I'm getting temperatures spikes up to 95 C.. on startup.  My average temperatures both under load and idle don't really worry me.  They typically sit around 36 C idle, and under "some" load (Battlefield 1, music, and one Chrome tab open), I'll get an average of about 65 C.  What worries me is the constant spikes up to 85-95 C.

 

I've checked the thermal application 4 times, I changed out my ENTIRE custom loop, and really ran through the whole shebang on this one.  Everything leads right back to the CPU itself.  Any other thoughts that might save me a call to Intel customer service?

 

P.S. The following was a look at the Heaven Benchmark, and doesn't show the crazy start-up 95 C spike.

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Only Kabylake are having problems with temps as far as i know, i never had an issue with mine ? it's normal for the cores to have a variance up to 10c. I would guess you have everything in BIOS on auto and you're overvolting  ;)

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What voltage are you running that overclock?

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Delid use liquid metal under the lid and problem solved 

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8 minutes ago, Jumper118 said:

Delid use liquid metal under the lid and problem solved 

Bit early to say that. Could be something else like excessive voltage that might be a simpler fix.

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3 minutes ago, porina said:

Bit early to say that. Could be something else like excessive voltage that might be a simpler fix.

Should be done from opening the box. Maybe test it's not doa then delid :P

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1 minute ago, Jumper118 said:

Should be done from opening the box. Maybe test it's not doa then delid :P

Should be done in factory before they put it in the box, but that's another story... :) 

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Honestly  I would guess it is a thermal couple issue rather than a gpu temp issue. The fact that it only spikes to those really high temps makes me think it is just misreading the temp.

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Monitor voltage during test see if you are getting voltage spikes do Intel boards have load line calibration?  If so give that a go worked for me

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6 hours ago, Kenrou said:

Only Kabylake are having problems with temps as far as i know, i never had an issue with mine ? it's normal for the cores to have a variance up to 10c. I would guess you have everything in BIOS on auto and you're overvolting  ;)

This seemed to be the issue.  I thought I had changed that, but it might've gotten back to default on my BIOS update.  It was sitting at a toasty 1.37 V from AUTO, so I knocked it down to 1.355.  On start-up the temps were 60 C-70 C across all cores.  I'll take it!  Thanks for the help guys!

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Out of curiosity, how did you get to that 1.355v ? seems high for 4.4ghz (mine sits on 1.25v at the same speed).

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On 8/17/2017 at 6:25 AM, Kenrou said:

Only Kabylake are having problems with temps as far as i know, i never had an issue with mine ? it's normal for the cores to have a variance up to 10c. I would guess you have everything in BIOS on auto and you're overvolting  ;)

I have tried setting the voltage lower, but I'm having trouble finding out how to adjust the LLC.  The CPU tends to crash when the voltage is set lower.

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One lower then maximum always worked best for me, YMMV ofc :)

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On 8/17/2017 at 2:29 PM, Kenrou said:

Out of curiosity, how did you get to that 1.355v ? seems high for 4.4ghz (mine sits on 1.25v at the same speed).

Interesting.  I've seen numbers range from 1.2 to 1.4 volts on the 6700k.  I'm honestly wondering what kind of voltage I should be running at, at this point.

 

I can't even find the LLC setting to help the drop, and there's just a whole slew of issues with this processor. I think my CPU might be borked.

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On 8/17/2017 at 1:08 PM, Dingleberrez said:

This seemed to be the issue.  I thought I had changed that, but it might've gotten back to default on my BIOS update.  It was sitting at a toasty 1.37 V from AUTO, so I knocked it down to 1.355.  On start-up the temps were 60 C-70 C across all cores.  I'll take it!  Thanks for the help guys!

Yeah my 6700k went way over 1.4v set to auto for 4.6GHz...

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