Temperature on I7 6700k Spiking on idle.

monkeymanz

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I have recently built a new Skylake PC and after monitoring it with MSI Afterburner I noticed that my temperatures, while not too high, are spiking a lot in idle.
When I mean spiking, i mean that one second it will be 25-30 degrees, and literally one second later it will jump to 50-55 degrees. I've been watching the graph for a while and there isn't more than a 5 second period where the temperature does not jump like that.
I have a hyper212x in a Coolermaster K350 case. The fact that it does reach the normal idle temperatures like 25-30 makes me concerned that the problem (if it is a problem) lies ins something outside the cooling solution, but with the CPU chip instead.
Is this normal for it to happen? How to solve it?
And yes, I have tried reapplying thermal grease (pea sized method) and same results.
 
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Okay I just found your answer. "It's also normal for temperatures spikes to intermittently or regularly occur at idle, which depends on what background processes and services are running."

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2772089/6700k-temperatures-spiking-significantly.html

I've never experienced it myself on my 4690K or 2500K builds, but I'd trust this guy's words. I was going to say it almost sounds virus-like in activity, but surely you have a good antivirus program...right?

monkeymanz

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There are spikes in the CPU usage, but they don't correspond linearly in the temperature spikes.
 

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I ran Coretemp and I got the same results.
 
Okay I just found your answer. "It's also normal for temperatures spikes to intermittently or regularly occur at idle, which depends on what background processes and services are running."

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2772089/6700k-temperatures-spiking-significantly.html

I've never experienced it myself on my 4690K or 2500K builds, but I'd trust this guy's words. I was going to say it almost sounds virus-like in activity, but surely you have a good antivirus program...right?
 
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kkimic

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I am having the same problem, did you find out the root cause? mine is with i7 6700k and MSI z170i gaming. The same you mention in your post, spikes moving all over the cores within seconds. Not sure it is the thermal compound or something wrong...

Cheers,
 


Please see the ink in my response above. It explains everything by an Intel rep on these spike variations.

 

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Thanks, I ll let it be then. I was only worried because any other temp. reports I see in the net is quite stable, whereas mine is all over the place, not hot, but just seems random.

Cheers.