I7 temps still in the 50's at idle

weegee64

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OK, I finally got around to remounting my i7 cooler, since the temps were too hot to overclock. However, the core temperatures are still about the same as before. I still have temps in the high 40's/ low 50's idling at desktop. When I remounted, I made sure to apply the correct amount of thermal paste (just a drop), and firmly screw in the fan. My case definitely has good airflow, so it's certainly not that. What else could be wrong with my system that I have these high idle temps?
 
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You want to d/l cpu id and or hardware monitor. See what your voltage is at idle and full load. You might want to set your vcore to normal not auto. auto sometimes tweaks a little more voltage in , even at stock clocks. Then your auto turbo pulses around from core to core , it can slightly raise your idle temps. My gigabyte ud4p(p55) was set to auto by default. I put it to normal. Try putting your vdroop on auto vs enabled and see what it does at stock clocks. I take pictures of that page in bios so I can remember, lol

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I have an XCLIO 3000 I think its called (its enormous, full ATX) , and the only thing that could be somewhat effecting the airflow is a GTX 260 in the top PCI slot (the fan on it is facing down though, so its not blowing hot air on the CPU).

I am using a thermaltake IGSC 300 cooler.

Also, I was looking around in the BIOS, and I have something called vdroop enabled in the CPU feature menu. Could this be raising voltages and increasing the temperature? Might I just have a faulty/bad quality chip?
 

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What are your system components? My room temp is warm and I run my GPUs most of the day using F@H. My CPU idles around 50C and my rear exhaust fans are moving lots of hot air out of the case. Have you thought of upgrading the fans?
 

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You want to d/l cpu id and or hardware monitor. See what your voltage is at idle and full load. You might want to set your vcore to normal not auto. auto sometimes tweaks a little more voltage in , even at stock clocks. Then your auto turbo pulses around from core to core , it can slightly raise your idle temps. My gigabyte ud4p(p55) was set to auto by default. I put it to normal. Try putting your vdroop on auto vs enabled and see what it does at stock clocks. I take pictures of that page in bios so I can remember, lol
 
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