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I got my i7 7700k in April this year, had a deepcool gammaxx400 and arctic silver 5 to cool it (from my old build) but it was overheating, reaching temps as high as 90C on just using handbrake and 95C with prime95 small FFT test (See specs for my overclock). I did try reinstalling the cooler properly with everything done right, still the same results.
About 2 weeks ago, I got Noctua NH-D15s and made totally sure I did every single step properly. Used articlean and a lint free cloth to clean the old compound and installed the new cooler but it had just a 10C difference from the previous cooler, overall on the same OC, and reaches 83-89C (peak) on prime95 small FFT test at the absolute default bios. (Im not using the low noise adapter)
After a while I noticed that ASUS AI Suite 3 shows approx 10C less on CPU temps AT ALL TIMES. Comparing AI Suite temps with:
while stress testing using:
On searching, a topic said that multiple monitoring programs can "confuse" each other so I tried 1 program at a time, still the same result. Tried running some of them and all of them at the same time, still approximately same results, with AI Suite 3 STILL showing approx 10C less temps.
And, AI Suite 3 temps make more sense as when I compare my temps to other 7700k owners, (Link) mine is heating about 15-20C more...My idle temps (forced max clocks via throttlestop) show around 45-50C in all other temp monitoring programs I tried, and 35-40C in AI Suite 3. And while stress testing, all others reach 95C but AI Suite 3 shows 84C (however it calculates the package power according to the other programs [throttlestop/hwinfo])
I thought I'd throw a 4.8 or 5 GHz OC at 1.35-1.42v vCore and stress test and temps would shoot up a hell lot, would show 95C in AI Suite and over 100C in other programs, and I'd expect it to shutdown if the temps were actually too high.
But I don't wana take the risk with my CPU...
Is there any other way to check if the temps are actually that high?
And if they are that high, what should I do? I already have one of the best air coolers already!
CPU: i7 7700k @ 4.7 GHz, 1.3v manual voltage, Level 2 LLC, 110% VRM Current capability
RAM: GSkill Trident Z 16GB (2x 8GB) RGB DDR4 @ X.M.P 3333 MHz
MBD: ASUS Strix z270F; 100.5MHz BCLK
Windows64,Prime95 v29.3,build1
I have my build on sort of a self built unstable test bench. So no airflow issues.
Ambient temps are mostly around 25-27C all the time. (Winters, normal and summers, I have an AC)
RAM: GSkill Trident Z 16GB (2x 8GB) RGB DDR4 @ X.M.P 3333 MHz
MBD: ASUS Strix z270F; 100.5MHz BCLK
Windows64,Prime95 v29.3,build1
I have my build on sort of a self built unstable test bench. So no airflow issues.
Ambient temps are mostly around 25-27C all the time. (Winters, normal and summers, I have an AC)
I got my i7 7700k in April this year, had a deepcool gammaxx400 and arctic silver 5 to cool it (from my old build) but it was overheating, reaching temps as high as 90C on just using handbrake and 95C with prime95 small FFT test (See specs for my overclock). I did try reinstalling the cooler properly with everything done right, still the same results.
About 2 weeks ago, I got Noctua NH-D15s and made totally sure I did every single step properly. Used articlean and a lint free cloth to clean the old compound and installed the new cooler but it had just a 10C difference from the previous cooler, overall on the same OC, and reaches 83-89C (peak) on prime95 small FFT test at the absolute default bios. (Im not using the low noise adapter)
After a while I noticed that ASUS AI Suite 3 shows approx 10C less on CPU temps AT ALL TIMES. Comparing AI Suite temps with:
PC Meter and some win7 gadgets,
Core Temp,
Real Temp,
ThrottleStop,
HWinfo and HWmonitor,
AIDA64 Extreme,
piriform speccy
Core Temp,
Real Temp,
ThrottleStop,
HWinfo and HWmonitor,
AIDA64 Extreme,
piriform speccy
prime95 small FFT test,
core damage,
AIDA64 Extreme system stability test,
Intel Burn Test v2,
and at times encoding a vid in h265 using handbrake (AVX/AVX2)
core damage,
AIDA64 Extreme system stability test,
Intel Burn Test v2,
and at times encoding a vid in h265 using handbrake (AVX/AVX2)
On searching, a topic said that multiple monitoring programs can "confuse" each other so I tried 1 program at a time, still the same result. Tried running some of them and all of them at the same time, still approximately same results, with AI Suite 3 STILL showing approx 10C less temps.
And, AI Suite 3 temps make more sense as when I compare my temps to other 7700k owners, (Link) mine is heating about 15-20C more...My idle temps (forced max clocks via throttlestop) show around 45-50C in all other temp monitoring programs I tried, and 35-40C in AI Suite 3. And while stress testing, all others reach 95C but AI Suite 3 shows 84C (however it calculates the package power according to the other programs [throttlestop/hwinfo])
I thought I'd throw a 4.8 or 5 GHz OC at 1.35-1.42v vCore and stress test and temps would shoot up a hell lot, would show 95C in AI Suite and over 100C in other programs, and I'd expect it to shutdown if the temps were actually too high.
But I don't wana take the risk with my CPU...
Is there any other way to check if the temps are actually that high?
And if they are that high, what should I do? I already have one of the best air coolers already!
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