4790k High temps! water cooler

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Hello!, i bought the 4790k on january put the stock thermal paste that came with the seidon 240m..
so while gaming i was getting 65 - 76c temps...
while baking ambient oclusion, etc i get arround 79c
now.. i thought mb i din't apply the paste properly.. so i bought an arthic silver 5..
and after cleaning and re-applying it, im gettting the same temps :/
is that normal? or should i try to return it?

hope i can get some help, before trying to return it.. (since it takes alot of time where i live)
 

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Check your CPU voltage in the BIOS. Some motherboards' auto settings apply too much voltage by default; my motherboard ran something stupid like 1.36v, when all my 4790k needed to be stable was 1.19v
Temps went down about 10c at idle and ~20c at load.
 

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First of all did you clean it with the spirit before putting on new paste?
80°C is often the maximum temp and it should not go that far even with stock thermal paste, sounds like something is wrong :/


hope this will help ;)
 

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I don't see it posted anywhere, but curious, are you running your 4790k @ stock speed or overclocking? If so, how far do you have it clocked?

As for the temps, if you're only at about 80 C @ full load, that's not terrible, especially if you're overclocking, but it could be better too. Once you start to hit about 90 C, that's when you really should start worrying.
 

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To answer everyone..
i did clean it (two times) with the ArctiClean. (i dont know what u mean by spirit :x)
about the voltage... hwmonitor list 1.327 as max.. (right now), havent checked how much it consumes while playing.. il keep an eye on it.

is so strange.. since i've seen people with like 50 - 55c while playing..


Bye !
 

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Hello, i have a msi gaming 7. im not doing any oc, besides the automatic 4.4... the bios is also updated.
il check the vcore and if i can manually adjust it on bios.

 

Evidenz

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btw this is what hwmonitor shows:
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Hello! so whats a good voltage? and can i damage it if i donwgrade it way too much?
btw i have xmp activated too, desactivating it dosnt show any improvement anyways. ( i said it, since i dont know if the downgrade voltage will affect it.)

Bye !
 

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Generally speaking no, but there are some deltas that should be kept within certain limits, so dont just start guessing...

haswell cpu have vid tables baked into the cpu that can be modified (offset or adaptive voltage setting) or overwritten (manual voltage setting) in bios but also by overclocking utilities from within windows. I cant believe you cpu has vid table with this high voltage so i do suspect something else is setting this voltage.

can you please check and report back vcore setting and actual value you can read from bios?
- If high vcore in bios > 1.22v --> load optimized defaults and recheck
- if normal vcore in bios <1.22v --> uninstall MSI overclocking tool

edit: on the other hand your min VID seems very normal. Sure you're not OCed?
 

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tried both ways (long ago). :/
 

Neutr1n0

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better late than never...

1.056V in bios is fine. No speedstep or turbo in bios so it's running at 40x=4G. It's a normal value and shouldn't result in 1.33V at turbo of 4.4G! Did you uninstall the MSI OC program thingy?

If you disable turbo and speedstep you should have that same voltage of 1.056V while in windows. If not some software is definately messing with your voltages...