Ok, so I made the newb mistake of cheaping out on a cooler when putting together my first box, went with the hyper 212 evo since I figured I wasn't going to do any hard pushing. I've generally run stock with some of the preset bumps. Lately I wasn't happy with the performance I was getting rendering (C4D) so I hit the boards again trying to learn a little bit. I've had my memory set to the spec bus speed and timings etc by entering that manually, and bumped up to see how a 4Ghz OC would do, figuring that's not so high. But I'm getting core temps up near 90c (!) running both RealBench and Prime95 for under two minutes. My idle temps vary between 35c-40c. Is it simply down to this cooler not being up to task for a 40 O.C.?
Also, I noticed initially that all my fans were pegged at Max RMP (1830 or so) even at idle. I opened AI SUITE II and enabled fan Xpert and that seems to be modulating the fans. Should I set this somewhere in the BIOS, or is it fine to do via Fan Xpert?
Annnnd one more thing: with AI suite open I've got two warning messages during idle, one MOBO at 84c but nothing showing abnormal on HWmonitor, and 12V warning, again, nothing abnormal on idle. Is AI II just a bit buggy or something to be worried about?
I'll leave 3 HWmonitor screenshots below. The 1st is Idle, the 2nd is Prime95 at two minutes, and the third is RealBench encoding at 2 minutes. Any feedback or advice is much appreciated! Only memory and turbo settings are changed, Vcore etc is still on auto as per recommendations I saw for a 4Ghz or under OC.
Idle:
Prime95 at two minutes:
RealBench Encoding at two minutes: