Greetings all. My first post on these forums and I am wondering if anyone could help me out figuring out CPU temps on my newly built PC. You can see my setup on my signature, but further details are as follows:
a) The HAF-X case has ALL fans installed. The rear fan I replaced with a Scythe pushing out 110cfm and I added another 120mm fan (another Scythe pushing in 110cfm) into the unused drive bays blowing across the RAM to the CPU. The VGA fan duct is installed with an 80mm Delta blowing over 190cfm (but software controlled).
b) I am using MX-4 thermal paste and I used the line method.
c) Ambient temperatures in my house average 24C-26C.
I have ran Prime95 successfully for over 12 hours and Intel Burn for more than 20 passes with no crashes or other issues (I must have one hell of a chip given that I'm running it at VCORE v1.150 and CPU PLL at v1.520. My
full load temps on Prime95 top out at 74C for cores 1 and 2 and 64C for cores 0 and 3 (
idle temps cores 0 and 3 are 30C-35C and cores 1 and 3 are 35-39C). Are these acceptable temperatures given the low voltage I am using? Could they be lower based on my current air cooling setup (Hyper 212 EVO)? Maybe a different method of thermal paste application could help more? Or am I just looking too much into this?
Thank you to all that reply!
MB: ASUS Maximus V Formula (BIOS 1707)
CPU: Intel i5-3570k (OCed 4.5Ghz at v1.15)
HS: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO (2x CM XtraFlo 120 Red LED Fans)
RAM: Samsung 8GB DDR3 30nm v1.35 (OCed: 2000mhz 9-9-9-24-1T at v1.45)
HDD: 240GB Corsair Neutron GTX SSD, 74GB WD 10k RPM Raptor, 640GB WD Caviar Black, 160GB Toshiba
VGA: EVGA Nvidia 460GTX SSC 1GB
SC: Creative Sound Blaster Z
DVD: ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS SATA 24X DVD Burner
PSU: Ultra L750W
CASE: Cooler Master HAF-X
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate