i7 8700 temps on Noctua L9i

[Gachr]

Hello, I hate those summer days... I have an i7 8700 with a Noctua L9i cooler inside of the CM Elite 110 case with Noctua A14 in the front. I experience the following temperatures with those RPMs on my fans on idle (browser, steam etc open). Is that normal or should I re-mount my cooler? Perhaps ramping up the case fan would help... It gets very annoyingly loud when doing something slightly intensive (installing a program etc).

[shooter2749]

2 minutes ago, Gachr said:

Hello, I hate those summer days... I have an i7 8700 with a Noctua L9i cooler inside of the CM Elite 110 case with Noctua A14 in the front. I experience the following temperatures with those RPMs on my fans on idle (browser, steam etc open). Is that normal or should I re-mount my cooler? Perhaps ramping up the case fan would help... It gets very annoyingly loud when doing something slightly intensive (installing a program etc).

the nh-l9i stays quiet even under load, try remounting it to see if your thermal paste application was correct and use the included low noise adapter. for temps post a picture of when under load and try undervolting the cpu, optimumTect on youtube recently did a video on that

[dizmo]

Those aren't bad temps.

[Gachr]

So, I actually found out that the A14 fan can be incredibly loud... It was a lot louder at around 1000RPM than the CPU's cooler at about 2000RPM. I adjusted the fan curves for the case fan to be slower and the CPU to be faster... And it works pretty well while maitaining decent temperatures. I think that the high temperatures are also caused by some heat radiation of the chassis - the bottom burns my hand, it's so hot (the part under the motherboard). At idle, it's usually around 55*C, and when playing Cities: Skylines, the temps were at about 75*C.

[LogicalDrm]

17 hours ago, Gachr said:

So, I actually found out that the A14 fan can be incredibly loud... It was a lot louder at around 1000RPM than the CPU's cooler at about 2000RPM. I adjusted the fan curves for the case fan to be slower and the CPU to be faster... And it works pretty well while maitaining decent temperatures. I think that the high temperatures are also caused by some heat radiation of the chassis - the bottom burns my hand, it's so hot (the part under the motherboard). At idle, it's usually around 55*C, and when playing Cities: Skylines, the temps were at about 75*C.

Or by just the fact that its small cooler for known-to-be-hot CPU. Temps are normal all things considered.

[geo3]

On 7/16/2018 at 3:53 PM, Gachr said:

So, I actually found out that the A14 fan can be incredibly loud... It was a lot louder at around 1000RPM than the CPU's cooler at about 2000RPM.

Big fans are just louder. What causes fan noise is the blades slicing through the air. The faster they do so the louder they are. A big fans blades will be moving faster for a given RPM than a small fan would be because of the difference in diameter. 

 

Many people have the miss conception that bigger fans are quieter because to move an equivalent amount of air they can spin much slower. A small fan is only louder when you try to make it move as much air as a big fan, thus needing it to run at much higher RPMs than the big fan would.

[Srnewbee]

I had a l9i before. I do not like small coolers. They are basically glorified small intel coolers. No overclocking. and yes, your temps are normal.