I7 920 Heat

Hey everyone, just built my first computer yesterday.

i7 920 on a rampage II extreme w/ a TRUE push/pull heatsink

used OCZ freeze thermal compound in the rice drop method

My idle speeds at stock seem high, 40-35-37-33

Im unsure what the problem is or if this is normal to start with and the temps improve over time.

I overclocked to 3.6 speed and got idle, 42-38-41-37


Load temps on 3.6 where 74-71--71-69

Load temps on stock where <63

and info and tips would be helpful.

What are you using to monitor your temps? When you say "load" how are you stress testing? Download OCCT 3.0.1 and run a custom test, with a LARGE DATASET, HIGH PRIORITY, and CHECK the box for Hyperthreading. Run it for 1hr and report back how hot that bad boy gets. It will run all 8 Hyperthreading cores at 100% and beat the crap out of it. This will be a true test.

I am OCed to 4.GHz with a Thermalright u-120 eXtreme cooler. I sit at about 55C idle across all cores, and max at about 85C.

RealTemp gives me a reading about 3C cooler than OCCT does though. So in that perspective its about 52C idle and 82C max.


Your temps seem normal and fine for your OC.

looks pretty close to normal.