Replacing Air Cooler with AIO

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MrFagiolo

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Hi everyone!
I actually own a Thermaltake NiC C4 Thermaltake NiC C4 and at the beginning I was happy, I was able to keep an FX 4170 at 4,6GHz with 1,4V at 73C°, but now it's different, I have an i5 4690K, and it's stable at 4,2GHz with 1,15V but it stays at 84C° which is too much! I would buy an AIO and I'm thinking about Raijintek Triton Raijintek Triton, but would I get a big difference?
Actually I have a HAF 932 case with four fans, and cable management it's really ok.
What you think?
 
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You shouldn't even be reaching those temps with your current air cooler to be honest. The Triton would be a better solution than your NiC C4, but there's a problem somewhere else.

I would try re-mounting your NiC C4 first.
 
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MrFagiolo

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I remounted my cpu cooler, applying new thermal compound on the whole heatspreader, just like I always did with my FX 4170, but CPU is still hot as hell... I'm thinking I've been unlucky and I've got a very bad cpu sample. At standard settings cpu jumps instantly at 65C° under stress (Prime95 SMALL FFT'S Test). I'll try to jump at 4,0GHz at least, keeping standard voltage on my processor.
 
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That seems a lot better to be honest. The 4.2GHz @ 1.15v 84° C you had before seemed outrageous, even with Prime95 (especially if you're using a version earlier than 26.6), unless you have a very high ambient temperature. At stock with auto voltage, you'll be at around ~1.05-1.10v anyway, so not that far off of 1.15v and you've got a drop of 19° C, the package temp reaching 65° C almost instantly when stressing with Prime95 isn't really surprising.

You shouldn't really stress test your CPU with Prime95 by the way, it's like Furmark for CPU's.
 
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I noticed something weird: running a Small FFT stress test my CPU gets over 85 C° at 4,3GHz and 1,271v, but running a BLEND Test with the same parameters I get only around 65/68C°... Can you explain this? And which software should I use to stress/test my cpu? Thank you very much for your help.

 
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