i7 4790k H80i Normal Temperatures?

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Hello! I currently have an H80i hooked up to my i7 4790k at stock with a exhaust configuration. I was just wondering if there are any fellow owners who also have this or had this cooler and could help me out on my temps. When I first boot up my PC and don't run it through anything demanding I usually idle at 28-32c. When I play games and stress test it the CPU never goes past 70c and I checked my realtemp after a whole day of rendering/gaming and I reached a max of 66c on the highest core. I was just wondering if that when I play games my CPU temp will stay around 48-58c but the odd thing is that at only say about 18-25% load my cpu will stay around 45c+ but anything over say 60% load my CPU almost maxes out at 58c, even on 100% load. I ran a stress test with XTU for 2 hours and it stayed in the high 60's. I have reseated the cooler tons of times and I have MX-4 as the TIM. The odd thing is though I noticed that any bit of load will make the temp spike up to the 40's. I currently have washers on the backplate as well because it was a nightmare without them! :bounce:
 
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Honestly dude, those temps are fine. If you really want better temps, either get some Noctua fans and put them on the rad,(I have 2 on mine and it cooled it more by 10C). You can get some more case fans, or some arctic silver 5

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If you have it overclocked, these temps are normal. I have the same cpu and same cooler except i have the GT model. If it is stock, than they are a little high. When you reseated it, did you apply new compound and use 91% alcohol to remove all the compound?
 

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Yep multiple times actually, the turbo is almost on 4.3-4.4mhz all the time as well.
 

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Is the CPU overclocked?
 

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Nope, just at stock speed (everything in bios is default) yet XMP is enabled but I doubt that has any variance.
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Also I don't know if this helps but I did a sensor test:
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Honestly dude, those temps are fine. If you really want better temps, either get some Noctua fans and put them on the rad,(I have 2 on mine and it cooled it more by 10C). You can get some more case fans, or some arctic silver 5
 
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Alright thanks man, I was just wondering though, do you notice any temp spikes with your CPU when you simply open websites or anything like that? I can be idling at about 35c and it will shoot up to 42-45c for a second then drop back down.
 

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Yeah, that's normal. It will boost when a new application takes control of it and then will go back to stock when it realizes that whatever the task is is not too challenging.
 

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Sounds good. Thanks for the help enm22!
 

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