Are these temps okay?

arc1929 · May 15, 2014

I have a i5 4670. Im cooling it with a Hyper 212 Evo. Im getting the following temps idle. Note this is with the side panel off (Im still working). Because of this the fan on the side panel is not in play. What do you guys think?

Thanks in advance!

dwatterworth · May 15, 2014

Any idea what your ambient temperatures are? If your ambient temps are in the 20's, then 45 seems fairly high for system idle, you should be seeing 32c-42c for a range. That's what I have with a 4670k, hyper 212 evo and a ~23c ambient temp.

danny2000 · May 15, 2014

The idle temp for the CPU is high for an idle temp, but check temps again with the side cover on.

I have a 4770 in a Storm Scout 2 Advanced White case and the Hyper 212 EVO.
At idle I get about 28c-29c on the cpu the system temp is 31c like your's.
At full load (doing 8 tasks with the BOINC client for World Community Grid), the cpu temp fluctuates from second to second between 38c - 54c.

Check to make sure your power supply cables are not blocking an airflow from the front of the case.

Ensure that you have your CPU fan blowing air through the 212 EVO's heatsink to the back of the case.

If you check those and it is still that high at idle, I would reinstall the EVO again and cleaning off old paste and reapplying.

arc1929 · May 15, 2014

My house temp is around 24.5 C.

arc1929 · May 15, 2014

danny2000 :

Ok, I will check all of that. If I do need to reinstall the EVO and redo the paste do I have to take the whole MOBO out again. I've taken this thing out at least 4 or 5 times for various reasons and I'm exhausted. I have been messing with this build for a while now, lol.

arc1929 · May 15, 2014

I just realized the fan is actually blowing towards the heat sink (the arrow is pointing towards it). Maybe this is the problem.

commanderfluffy · May 15, 2014

I have the same CPU and same Cooler. My temps are much lower. I5 4670l is overclocked to 4.4GHz idl temp of 25c max temp of 72c stress testing.

Yeah try and make the fan blow the hot hear towards your rear exhaust so it just pulls the hot air out. I also added a 2nd fan to my Evo 212. so i have one pulling cold air in and one pulling hot air out.

danny2000 · May 15, 2014

arc1929 :

Yes, it should blow towards the heat sink and through the heat sink's fins to push air through the heat sink and out towards the rear exhaust fan. You want to create air flow from the front of the case and out the back of the case.

arc1929 · May 15, 2014

The way the fan bracket is on the fan if I place it on the side closest to the back of the case it blows in the direction of the front of the case. If I switch sides it will blow towards the back but it will be blowing into the heatsink. Do I need to put the bracket on the other side and if so is that why there's an extra one included or do I take the one currently on the fan off?

Also the cables are in the case like that because I don't want to cable tie anything until everything is ok. Sorry if I sound dumb im just trying to get a little help

danny2000 · May 15, 2014

As far as removing the motherboard from the case, that is up to you. You don't need to remove the backplate, just the bracket and heatsink so you can try to do it in the case but it is definitely easier to do with the motherboard out of the case.

I've only installed mine once and it was out of the case, but I would imagine that It might difficult to maneuver my hands in the case and also see what is going on.

arc1929 · May 15, 2014

Ok danny I will place it in the other side and see what I get.

Thanks for your quick responses. I really appreciate it. Im beginning to get a little discouraged and frustrated lol

danny2000 · May 15, 2014

arc1929 :

The way the fan bracket is on the fan if I place it on the side closest to the back of the case it blows in the direction of the front of the case. If I switch sides it will blow towards the back but it will be blowing into the heatsink. Do I need to put the bracket on the other side and if so is that why there's an extra one included or do I take the one currently on the fan off?

Also the cables are in the case like that because I don't want to cable tie anything until everything is ok. Sorry if I sound dumb im just trying to get a little help

The default setting for the fan is correct | heatsink | heatsink fan Front of case (and fans if any)
air flow direction <--- rear of case <---- <---- <----------------
a 2nd CPU fan can be placed (if you have a cpufan2 connection on motherboard) on the side of the heatsink closest to the rear of the case, also blowing the air to the rear of the case.

danny2000 · May 15, 2014

In your picture above of your computer case, you would put the fan on the part of the heatsink that is closest to the top of the picture. The fan's airflow should force the air down to the bottom of the picture and out th■ e fan at the bottom of your picture.

danny2000 · May 15, 2014

I think that I have the same motherboard as you, the MSI Z87 G45. So if you ever buy a 2nd fan for the cooler, you can hook it up to the CPUFAN2 header on the motherboard.

danny2000 · May 15, 2014

arc1929 · May 15, 2014

Still getting the same temperatures. I guess I will check the thermal paste and see if that's the problem. I used the pea method in the middle of the CPU. I was so ready to game on this joker!

arc1929 · May 15, 2014

Are my fan RPM's normal they look pretty low and they don't seem to be blowing crazy. My stock case panel fan blows harder than the cpu fan and the two other case fans that I added.

danny2000 · May 15, 2014

At idle, my RPM(s) are lower

danny2000 · May 15, 2014

At full load, these are my stats:

arc1929 · May 16, 2014

Those pics above were from the first application. I used too much so I decided to use the same pea technique but this time couple it with the spread method and came up with this result. I'm about to test it and see what I get.

danny2000 · May 16, 2014

One thing that I noticed on your 212 EVO brackets, the pins on the EVO braacket should be positioned in the middle slot, On at least one of them, you have it set to the outermost slot. The middle slot is for LGA1150/1155

arc1929 · May 16, 2014

Actually I had 2 in the middle and 2 on the end. I corrected that before applying the second attempt. Thanks though. Good observation. It looks like my temps are down now. However, what I show in my bios is way higher than what I show when I check when im inside of windows. How can I tell which is more accurate. They're both the same program.

dwatterworth · May 16, 2014

I believe both are accurate. If your motherboard software has a temperature monitoring program in place, it should be accessing the same hardware reports that your bios does.

Do your fans spin at full speed when in the bios? I've noticed that on a variety of boards, the bios does not utilize power stepping or fan controls, running the chip at it's main voltage, not a pared down voltage such as idle in windows etc, that may be causing your temperature discrepancies between bios and windows.

danny2000 · May 16, 2014

arc1929 :

Which program are you using to measure your temps?

arc1929 · May 16, 2014

I'm using msi command center. When I first boot up if I hit (Del) and enter into the BIOS my temp reads 27C for system and around 40-45C for cpu.

When I go into the OS and run command center it reads 27C for system and fluctuates around 28-33 for cpu.

Are these temps okay?

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