- Aug 26, 2018
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I just put a new Kraken 61 cooler on a my 5820K - the problem is with this new cooler I am running idle temps at between 36 and 40 Celsius.
The old cooler wasn't anything fancy and would also run hot and I just assumed I probably had a bad cooler or just put it on poorly - I let it go because it was well within operating range.
Now, I have overclocked this CPU to 4.5GHZ and it sits at between 36 and 40 Celsius idle as well (at stock or at overclock the idle is still the same).
When I punish the CPU with some AIDA 64 to test the overlock it heats up to the very low 70's and happily sweats away at that temp - during heavily CPU intensive gaming it gets to the high 50's - low 60's.
This thing is very usable at these speeds but it does concern me as to the reasons why the idle is so high and I wanted the communities thoughts on this please.
The old cooler wasn't anything fancy and would also run hot and I just assumed I probably had a bad cooler or just put it on poorly - I let it go because it was well within operating range.
Now, I have overclocked this CPU to 4.5GHZ and it sits at between 36 and 40 Celsius idle as well (at stock or at overclock the idle is still the same).
When I punish the CPU with some AIDA 64 to test the overlock it heats up to the very low 70's and happily sweats away at that temp - during heavily CPU intensive gaming it gets to the high 50's - low 60's.
This thing is very usable at these speeds but it does concern me as to the reasons why the idle is so high and I wanted the communities thoughts on this please.
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