Intel i7 4790k Temperatures & Extreme Tuning Utility

Delirium Ghs · Jan 25, 2016

Hello.

I installed my new i7 4790k a few days ago and everything works just fine.
I noticed an issue however: When I use the Extreme Tuning Utility and set it to balanced profile, temperatures range around 24-40 (reaching 40 degrees as a spike, e.g from 25, it'll go as high as 40-45 for a second and then drop back down). CPU frequency also ranges around 2 to 4.4 GHz, spiking as well. When I set it to High Performance profile, idle temperatures are 20-25 max without spiking. Is it safe to leave it to the High Performance profile? Also, are those spikes normal? My cooler is Corsair H80i

Thank you!

basroil · Jan 25, 2016

Don't use that utility unless you want to fry your CPU , it tends to overestimate required voltages and might harm your CPU.

The spikes are perfectly normal though, it's called "hurry up and wait", which basically means the chips will spike to 100% for a split second, get everything done, then go back to low idle states. For it to do that spike though, you must have something running in the background that's not very CPU friendly. Try making sure to clean out all the crap you installed, especially logging applications that aren't useful except for debugging systems.

Delirium Ghs · Jan 25, 2016

basroil :

I don't use it at all as I am not intending to overclock my CPU. Changing profiles it in it seems to be just changing Windows power profiles only. I just installed it because it came with the Gigabyte motherboard's drivers. It's a program by Intel, so how will it actually fry my CPU? Is it badly coded?

Also, I don't have anything installed at all, this is a clean machine I am talking about. It's just Google Chrome and drivers. Nothing more.

basroil · Jan 25, 2016

Delirium Ghs :

1) Windows power profiles work perfectly in the default (balanced) setting. Only deal with others if you know exactly what they do (you can't break your system, but you can make it slower)
2) I already explained why the gigabyte overclocking is bad (voltages)
3) Chrome is garbage

4) No, not joking, it is probably the source of the spikes if your drivers are up to date.

Delirium Ghs · Jan 25, 2016

basroil :

1) Again as I said, changing profile on XTU is the same as changing Windows profiles. It just does that.
2) It's not Gigabyte overclocking, it's Intel's software.
3) Why's that? I can guess you're saying that due to the high memory usage it has but that's just it.
4) The spikes were there with nothing running at all.

Tradesman1 · Feb 1, 2016

The Intel software is generic, it's not adapted to your individual rig and it's nuances, same is true of the mobo makers management software, if you update the BIOS things change, but you seldom see the software change

Delirium Ghs · Mar 11, 2016

Tradesman1 :

I downloaded the program through Gigabyte's website. It was on the page with my motherboard's software.

Tradesman1 · Mar 11, 2016

Plenty of people offer it, whether it's tweaked to your particular mobo is the question, if they are doing that then it would be updated with each BIOS update

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