New Build, Testing Thermals - Help!

[mgrinspan]

Hi,

 

I just built a rig and I wasn't 200% confident I applied the thermal paste/cpu cooler perfectly, so I decided to run some stress tests.

The CPU is a 2200G with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut and the stock cooler.

 

It maxes at 72C with AIDA64 and 83C with Prime95. Which number more accurately represents how high I can expect the temps to get?

Also note that the average ambient temperature of the room the PC will be in is about 10F hotter (~85F) than the room I'm testing in. (~75F)

 

I'm also wondering if I have to do any other special tests for the GPU part of the 2200G? Not sure if that's a stupid question.

 

Thanks!

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, mgrinspan said:

Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut and the stock cooler.

Why.


What motherboard? What case?

If you're just doing gaming just run a game or something to check your temps.

[mgrinspan]

1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

Why.


What motherboard? What case?

If you're just doing gaming just run a game or something to check your temps.

It's what I had, I know it's a weird combo...

[mgrinspan]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Why.


What motherboard? What case?

If you're just doing gaming just run a game or something to check your temps.

Case is DIYPC DIY-F2-P and mobo is MSI B450M PRO-VDH

[Vasllo]

I think AIDA64 will be more representative of real world temps, Prime95 really pushes the CPU with AVX loads, which you'll rarely or even never see. My 2600k OC'd taps the 80C mark in Prime95, but runs 50-70C in games, which is just fine.

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, mgrinspan said:

It's what I had, I know it's a weird combo...

Should have saved the paste for when you put a real cooler on it lol the paste is worth more than the stock cooler.

Your motherboard has no VRM heatsink on the SoC VRM, don't run stress tests anymore unless you put a fan over the top VRM

Also only a 2 phase looks like, really should have gotten an ASrock Pro 4 or MSI Tomahawk board for the APU
 

 

[mgrinspan]

7 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Should have saved the paste for when you put a real cooler on it lol the paste is worth more than the stock cooler.

Your motherboard has no VRM heatsink on the SoC VRM, don't run stress tests anymore unless you put a fan over the top VRM

Also only a 2 phase looks like, really should have gotten an ASrock Pro 4 or MSI Tomahawk board for the APU
 

 

 

This is what my fan setup looks like, the one on top and left are exhaust, the 3 (2 of them hard to see) on the front are intake. Is that enough for stress tests?

[Streetguru]

45 minutes ago, mgrinspan said:

 

You don't really need the extra fans for exhaust if you already have 2 fans in the front of that case, just stick one over the VRM like the image to keep it cool since it has no heatsink

Preferably you'd have some way to measure the temps of the mosfett but that's probably not needed so long as it gets direct airflow.

[mgrinspan]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

You don't really need the extra fans for exhaust if you already have 2 fans in the front of that case, just stick one over the VRM like the image to keep it cool since it has no heatsink

Preferably you'd have some way to measure the temps of the mosfett but that's probably not needed so long as it gets direct airflow.

Any idea how I can mount a fan there that will survive being shipped 3600 miles? Without screw holes I'd expect it to fall out of anything makeshift and break something.

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, mgrinspan said:

Any idea how I can mount a fan there that will survive being shipped 3600 miles? Without screw holes I'd expect it to fall out of anything makeshift and break something.

Probably just fix it after shipping or tell them to fix it somehow after shipping

You might be able to contact MSI or something and request to buy a heatsink for that VRM from them, it should already have the holes set up for it

[mgrinspan]

5 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Probably just fix it after shipping or tell them to fix it somehow after shipping

You might be able to contact MSI or something and request to buy a heatsink for that VRM from them, it should already have the holes set up for it

Do you think all this is really necessary? Or only if I want to run stress tests? The person using the PC will likely never use it for anything intensive

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, mgrinspan said:

Do you think all this is really necessary? Or only if I want to run stress tests? The person using the PC will likely never use it for anything intensive

Then just leave everything at stock settings and it's not going to matter

[mgrinspan]

Just now, Streetguru said:

Then just leave everything at stock settings and it's not going to matter

Sounds good to me, thanks for your help!

[LogicalDrm]

Aida is close to what intensive rendering would be like. Test using Asus RealBench if you want actual real world results. Or 3DMark and Unigine tests for more gaming style loads.