Hello!
I have an i7 930 @2.8 Ghz CPU for several years. I didn't have any problems with it and never checked it's temperature before. First time i checked it was few days ago with SpeedFan and those were the readings i got when playing assassin's Creed 4 for a few minutes:
It looked high to me so i went to a computer shop and they said that there is a heating problem and they installed a Hyper N520 cooler master heatsink. I went home and found two problems with it:
1. The fan of the heatsink, running at a fixed ~1800 RPM, is pretty loud (doesn't matter if the computer is idle or at at full load).
2. The CPU heat readings remained pretty much the same, although the core 1,2,3,4 readings declined by 15 - 20 degrees. Here are the readings today when playing AC4 for a few minutes:
By the way, the idle temperature of the CPU before the new heatsink was 55C and after it 54C, and the CPU temperature when browsing the net (not playing games and not idle) is about the same as when playing AC4 in both cases.
My questions are:
1. Is the heatsink doing it's job by declining only the cores 1,2,3,4 temperature and not the CPU temperature?
2. Regardless of the first question i want to replace the heatsink because of it's noise. Can you recommend a silent heatsink that will get the job done?
Thanks in advance!
My Specs:
Intel core i7 930 @ 2.8 GHz.
8GB DDR3
Radeon R9 290 Tri-x
Cougar A760 760W
I have an i7 930 @2.8 Ghz CPU for several years. I didn't have any problems with it and never checked it's temperature before. First time i checked it was few days ago with SpeedFan and those were the readings i got when playing assassin's Creed 4 for a few minutes:
It looked high to me so i went to a computer shop and they said that there is a heating problem and they installed a Hyper N520 cooler master heatsink. I went home and found two problems with it:
1. The fan of the heatsink, running at a fixed ~1800 RPM, is pretty loud (doesn't matter if the computer is idle or at at full load).
2. The CPU heat readings remained pretty much the same, although the core 1,2,3,4 readings declined by 15 - 20 degrees. Here are the readings today when playing AC4 for a few minutes:
By the way, the idle temperature of the CPU before the new heatsink was 55C and after it 54C, and the CPU temperature when browsing the net (not playing games and not idle) is about the same as when playing AC4 in both cases.
My questions are:
1. Is the heatsink doing it's job by declining only the cores 1,2,3,4 temperature and not the CPU temperature?
2. Regardless of the first question i want to replace the heatsink because of it's noise. Can you recommend a silent heatsink that will get the job done?
Thanks in advance!
My Specs:
Intel core i7 930 @ 2.8 GHz.
8GB DDR3
Radeon R9 290 Tri-x
Cougar A760 760W