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I OC'd a 5820K to 4K via dip 5, temps are 23 idle and 36 load on stress test. Cooling is Corsair H100i..

Which seems a little odd, I'd expect the temps to far higher. Especially coming from some of the review sites. I've been benching it for 9 hours now, seems solid. What do you think? Some half decent silicon? Or something wrong?

Edit: As much as I'd of loved to see how far I could of gotten away with, I think the below is good for me temps seem still rather good / bordering on unusual:

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You can do as you wish, of course, but in consideration of that fact that I've been overclocking rigs for about twenty five years, and have never seen an overclocked CPU in REAL 100% stress, on all cores, have temps that low, I'm having serious difficulties believing the results. As I said, if you want a time proven method to get the best picture of what's going on, done the same way professional reviewers of any noteworthiness do it, you'll want to run Prime95 on small FFTs or Intel Burn Test even, and monitor the core and package temps using either Core Temp or HWinfo, all of which are free downloads and are more likely to give you RELIABLE results than any OEM utilities or tweak tools. Either way, good luck.
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Going strictly by your screen shot, it's not a wonder that the temps are that low as your stress test is only stressing 3 cores, not 6 and definitely not 12 counting the additional virtual cores.

If you want to do a true stress test, you use Prime95, run small FFT's and watch your temps using HWinfo or Core Temp. Honestly, using a utility is a poor choice as a method to overclock. If you can manage an overclock using a utility you can do it properly using a UEFI BIOS as well which is a much better option as you can manually control things like the voltage and the LLC as well as disabling speedstep and C-states which you should do if you want a full time overclock. If you just want to play with the turbo limitations, the utility is probably ok.
 
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Well the Asus tuning tool stress tests three and then continues on to do all cores before testing the next frequency value, I've been building terrains in world machine all day with all cores maxed out and it never peeps above 45. Also tested with the ROG tool, similar results..

If you look at the Asus DIP5 information, some reviewers got better results from using the tool as it automatically adjusts fan profiles and EPU. So of course I can manually set it, but I doubt I'd get that much better results. I'll just keep benching with other tools and see where it goes.
 
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You can do as you wish, of course, but in consideration of that fact that I've been overclocking rigs for about twenty five years, and have never seen an overclocked CPU in REAL 100% stress, on all cores, have temps that low, I'm having serious difficulties believing the results. As I said, if you want a time proven method to get the best picture of what's going on, done the same way professional reviewers of any noteworthiness do it, you'll want to run Prime95 on small FFTs or Intel Burn Test even, and monitor the core and package temps using either Core Temp or HWinfo, all of which are free downloads and are more likely to give you RELIABLE results than any OEM utilities or tweak tools. Either way, good luck.
 
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So not the only guy who lived in the era of the turbo button? You're not alone done this a couple of decades and I don't believe it either, anyway I took your advice and use the Intel Burn test with HW info. First thing I noticed it said the OC was set to 4.2GHZ, but it's maxing out at 4 and secondly (I'm guessing here) it must me a culmination of average temps because HWInfo did show higher temps.. The ambient temperature is 5C higher today, even with that it's not exactly setting the world on fire, it's still the same corsair H100i / six case fans and a 5820K. Temps are on the chilly side to say the least.. Idle / min temps are really low.. Lower than Asus DIP5 showed:

I'm just really interested in the autotuning 5 way DIP 5 program, more of a mess about see what it can / can't do. I'll keep the test spinning for a couple of hours again and see how it ends up...

Results:

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In conclusion:

Ran P95, 100 X passes of Intel burn in, 3DMark, PCMark, ran various temp monitor tools and Dip5 always seemed to be about 10 - 12 C out with temp. One of the cores hit 58 @ 4.2 with the ambient temp here it's above average but not a revelation, @ 23 ambient and 4.5 I'd probably get the same as the reviewer of the 5820.

It was fun to mess around with and is a cool tool for a quick overclock, although I did go in and manually tweak afterwards anyway. There was a little instability when I was messing around further with the TPU settings. Which actually only got called out when I booted up Unreal 4 Engine and kicked off lightmass.

Also I'm surprised in the 4 way optimisation there isn't a straight up 3.8 / 3.9 and 4.0GHZ option, not everyone wants to go above 4GHZ. Anyway mystery solved..
 
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I guess you won the lottery as that's great temps regardless how you look at it. I'd say that chip might go as high as 4.8 without breaking a sweat, no pun intended, since the temps are so low at 4Ghz.

Also, keep in mind that the CPU thermal monitoring, for throttling and Tcase measures the temperatures on the IHS which I'm fairly certain on your HWinfo sensors is going to be the CPU package temp, not the core temps. Core temps are more important to me though as they rise and drop much more quickly than package and are the temp likely to cause damage if there is a problem.
 
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Oh shit. The "Turbo button". Ha. Haaaaaaaaaaaaa. Yeah, I remember that. Took me a second before that hit me. That's some old ass early nineties tech right there. Actually, I've been tearing these things apart and putting them back together since the Wang word processor, then Commodore 64 and then Apple II GS hit the market with it's mouse, desktop OS, color and sound and it was on for real then.
 
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AHA, yep I've still got a speccy with a "wafer" drive hanging about somewhere in bits. I remember a guy I bought a machine off back in the early 90's saying, don't worry about 4MB of RAM, you'll never use it. Wish I could meet up with him today LOL!.

Well anyway thanks for helping out, I appreciate it.
 
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