I recently water cooler my system with a custom loop and went to overclock my 6700k processor. Currently its at 4.8Ghz and idles at 22-25 Celsius, (room temp). However whenever I run a stress test lime prime 95 instantly it jumps up to 100 Celsius and all my fans/pump turns to max. If I run a benchmark though it makes it through no matter how many times I run through it and never reaches above mid 70's. I use HW monitor and a led readout on my motherboard to read the temp. Should I lower my overclock until the stress test reads lower temps or is it okay to continue running it as it is since it never reaches above mid 70's during benchmarks or gaming? Any advice or help would be appreciated very much.
6700k High Temp
- Thread starter Crus4de
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first of what version of prime95 are u suing? the newer versions should NOT be used with skylake chips
so get one of the older version or stress test with realbench+aida64
retry then to confirm if our temps are too high, because yes, ofc 100c is way too high
so get one of the older version or stress test with realbench+aida64
retry then to confirm if our temps are too high, because yes, ofc 100c is way too high
forgot about OCCT, can use that too, just not the newer version of prime95, it will wreck that poor chip
i think version 26 or something was okay, but im not 100% confidently sure about that, i just stopped using it all together going to skylake
Run realbench and aida64 seperately for like 15min each, then run then together at the same time to see how far your temps get pushed
(reason i suggest running them together is i saw my temps actually be getting higher like that, so a nice alternative than a chip destroying prime95 test
)
i think version 26 or something was okay, but im not 100% confidently sure about that, i just stopped using it all together going to skylake
Run realbench and aida64 seperately for like 15min each, then run then together at the same time to see how far your temps get pushed
(reason i suggest running them together is i saw my temps actually be getting higher like that, so a nice alternative than a chip destroying prime95 test
)
Gnuffi :
forgot about OCCT, can use that too, just not the newer version of prime95, it will wreck that poor chip
i think version 26 or something was okay, but im not 100% confidently sure about that, i just stopped using it all together going to skylake
Run realbench and aida64 seperately for like 15min each, then run then together at the same time to see how far your temps get pushed
(reason i suggest running them together is i saw my temps actually be getting higher like that, so a nice alternative than a chip destroying prime95 test)
i think version 26 or something was okay, but im not 100% confidently sure about that, i just stopped using it all together going to skylake
Run realbench and aida64 seperately for like 15min each, then run then together at the same time to see how far your temps get pushed
(reason i suggest running them together is i saw my temps actually be getting higher like that, so a nice alternative than a chip destroying prime95 test
)
Thank you, I didn't realize prime95 did that to Skylake. I used aida64 and it averaged high 60's low 70's.
When I ran prime95 at 4.8 I almost jumped a little because in the time it took me to press alt + tab it had hit 100 Celsius and I couldn't hit the stop button fast enough after that point.
Thank you for letting me know about prime95 plus Skylake and suggesting other programs to use!
no problem you are quite welcome, just remember to run Realbench and Aida64 for longer
a good inital start to ge a feel for your temps is the 15-30min mark, but thats just a temp gauge,
to test true system stability on your clock you should run them for atleast a couple of hours, a good idea is to run aida 64 over night, if the system is still alive when you wake up its a good place to start
you could go hardcore and stress it for 24hours to be 100% sure your clock is stable
a good inital start to ge a feel for your temps is the 15-30min mark, but thats just a temp gauge,
to test true system stability on your clock you should run them for atleast a couple of hours, a good idea is to run aida 64 over night, if the system is still alive when you wake up its a good place to start
you could go hardcore and stress it for 24hours to be 100% sure your clock is stable
azzazel_99
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Yea prime regardless of what anyone else will tell you is garbage and uses useless unrealistic stress tests. It has killed many haswell and haswell-e chips and will kill skylake also. Aida64 extreme is much better.
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