So one day, while I was playing Planetside, I had a whim to run CoreTemp to see my temperatures and how much overclocking headroom I had with the stock heatsink while I RMA'd my AIO liquid cooler because of a derpy backplate. Lo and behold, I nearly had a heart attack when one of the cores was at 91C, and every other core was in the mid 80s. I immediately closed Planetside and watched it drop to 40C almost instantaneously.
Did I get the bottom of the barrel in terms of the silicon lottery, where my chip won't even run clear in stock speeds? I don't think it is the thermal paste's problem, Intel's heatsinks all come preapplied so I assume all I have to do is snap the 4 pins in place.
My computer specs are:
i7-4770k (stock speeds, 3.5/3.9 ghz)
Asrock Z87 Extreme4
GTX 770
Fractal Design Define R4
Did I get the bottom of the barrel in terms of the silicon lottery, where my chip won't even run clear in stock speeds? I don't think it is the thermal paste's problem, Intel's heatsinks all come preapplied so I assume all I have to do is snap the 4 pins in place.
My computer specs are:
i7-4770k (stock speeds, 3.5/3.9 ghz)
Asrock Z87 Extreme4
GTX 770
Fractal Design Define R4
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