High CPU Temps - i7-2600k touching 80ºC

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So I just built my new rig. I would say everything went well except for the fact that the CPU temps are ridiculously high. I've attached pictures for the idle temps below. While running a few games to stress test it, the temp reached 80ºC, at which point I shut the computer down to cool off. The outside temp was at about a maximum of 24ºC at the time of testing and I had the air conditioning on the entire time but it didn't really help in anyway.
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The CPU that was used was a brand new sealed i7-2600k which had been bought 3 years ago but never used up till now. Its in mint condition. I've used the stock hsf that came with it for now since I planned to overclock the CPU in the future with an aftermarket cooler.

I guess the likely issue could be the thermal paste or an incorrect hsf installation. I installed the stock hsf with the stock thermal compound and made sure the arrows were pointing away from the heat sink and that the black latch underneath the motherboard came all the way out to lock it in place.

As far as the airflow is concerned - I have 200mm front intake fan, 200mm top exhaust fan and a 120mm rear exhaust fan installed.

Rest of the details of my rig are as follows:
1. CPU - i7-2600k
2. Motherboard - Gigabyte Z77X UD5H
3. GPU - Sapphire R9 270X 2GB GDDR5 OC WITH BOOST
4. Case - CM 690 III
5. PSU - Cooler Master G650M
6. RAM - Corsair Vengenance 8GB DDR3 1600

Any advice would be good advice at this point. If you need any other details, let me know. Whatever suggestions you guys make, keep it as detailed as possible so that I know where to go with it. Thanks
 
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Did you apply new thermal compound to install this three year old cooler, or use the pre-applied paste? (If it came in a separate sealed pouch/tube/baggy that would be better)

Also, don't expect much from the stock Intel coolers. They are woefully undersized.
 
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The thermal compound came pre-installed with the stock heat stink and It didn't look dried at all. So I used the stock compound itself. It was exactly like the picture below. So it wasn't in any sealed tube/pouch.
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Not expecting much from the stock fan but since I haven't even overclocked the CPU and it is going above 70ºC with any game that I run. Is that normal?
 
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The stock cooler isnt designed for a heavy artificial load like prime, it will get really hot
 
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@Shneiky - I haven't run prime 95. I simply started a game to test the FPS of a game when I realized that the temps were touching 80. Haven't bought an aftermarket cooler yet and I haven't overclocked for the time being either.

@smackers_12 - I haven't run prime till now and I don't plan until I can figure out why the temps are so high.


 
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I'll just post the temp from bios in my next post. In the mean time, I started a game (watchdogs) right now for not more than 5 minutes to test out the temps and the temps jumpshot to the picture posted below.

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big_iceman,

The temperatures you are getting are more or less normal for Intel stock cooler (though you are 3-4C on the hotside on what I would have expected). If you want a cheap option for a cooler - get Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo - it is 30 USD or EUR. If you want something more - there are a lot of options. I am changing my 212 Evo because it gets pretty loud if I go more than 4 GHz. My Cryorig R1 Ultimate arrived today. Did not have time to install it yet. I just opened it and I was amazed by the build quality (and it is only 64 EUR, compared to 90 for a Noctua D14 or 80 for a Phanteks TC14 or 85 for a Be quiet! Shadow Rock Pro 3 or a 82 for a Thermaltake Silver Arrow IB-E and it outperforms all of them except the Silver Arrow). I will hook it up soon and I am hoping to get 4.5 GHz at lowest fan speed (I am a silence freak). I can post some numbers if you interested.
 
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Temps from UEFI
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My temps usually go above 70 and tend to stay there for any game so far. I haven't installed my video rendering programs yet. If you say this is normal then do you suggest I don't clean up and apply new thermal paste?

I do plan to buy an aftermarket cooler, just haven't decided on one yet. Cryorig R1 Ultimate sounds good. I would appreciate it if you share the stats once you have installed it. Good luck with it.

I have usually heard from people that the stock fan would be good enough if you aren't overclocking and since I didn't plan to overclock just yet, I was hoping it would be good enough but the temps don't look good to me at all. Give any game more than 30 minutes and the temps usually stay above 80. I probably shouldn't run any games tillI get an aftermarket cooler right?


 
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My experience with Intel stock cooler is that aftermarket paste does perform the same and most times worse than the stock one. A quick remedy for you is to clock your I7 at 3.00 GHz by disabling your turbo boost, put the multiplyer to 3.0 and reduce the vCore to 1.1 V inbetween 1.1 and 1.0 (depends on how much your chip needs). The vCore reduction will impact temps dramatically. This should lower your temps with at 15-20 C.

But judging from your temps, they are indeed very high. It could also be that the paste you had on that cooler had degraded. Does the fan spin properly? What RPMs does it reach?
 
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Your core temps are 56 - 64C. Your CPU temp will be 45-55C. Which is not too bad while gaming. Bump up your fan speed. Get rid of any overclock. Blow out your case with compressed air to get rid of dust build up. If then you're getting over 50C core temp idle or over 65C core temp gaming then re-seat your cooler (Google it).

If that doesn't help, get a better cpu cooler.
 
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