[Solved] CPU temperature?

[ChevyOwner]

I water cooled my PC today. It does not leak, but I think I may have done something wrong.

Before with the heat sink and fan I got about 30C on all cores
Now I get about 28-30C on 2 cores (0 and 3) and 32-40 on 4 cores (1, 2, 4, and 5)
I am using CPUID HWMonitor to watch the temps.

It also jumps up about 20C under load.

Not sure if I messed up on the thermal paste or if the block is does not sit on the CPU just right.
I am getting ready to start overclocking my PC but I wanted to make sure the new cooling system would work correctly 1st.

I will update my PC info for today's changes.

 

[natr0n]

tighten all the screws 1st if not

remove and re seat your cpu cooler/block.

its uneven

 

[ChevyOwner]

Will try that, how tight should they be?

 

[natr0n]

Will try that, how tight should they be?

use fingers till you cant turn them anymore then a slight tiny turn more with a screw driver all evenly turned

 

[ChevyOwner]

tightened the screws and it helped, 1, 3 are the same @28-30C, and the rest are 29-34C. I am not 100% sure I installed the CPU block correctly. It does have the correct bracket but no instructions to install it on socket 2011 CPUs.

EDIT
I looked at the instructions again, and I installed the CPU block following the instructions with the exception that I used the provided studs that attach to the 2011 socket instead of the screws that were provided for other sockets.

 

[natr0n]

Might want to use some fresh thermal paste and re seat it later.

Yeah the screws sometimes are confusing in a multipack, you sometimes get a tiny mm gap.

 

[ChevyOwner]

I used new thermal paste when I installed it earlier. Sorry I always leave something out, but I don't know why. The CPU block uses giant thumb nuts (for lack of a better term) to hold it on, It may still need to be tighter but I cant do that with my fingers.

PS
I disabled c stepping and turbo boost correctly this time (I forgot to hit save last time...), now core 0 is about 31-33C cores 1-5 area about 33-36C

 

[natr0n]

There you go looks just about even temps now. From what I know of intel chips, always 1-2 core run slightly higher temp than the rest.

Also don't forget cure time on your paste, the temps should drop a few degree usually after a day or so.

So no worries now

 

[ChevyOwner]

What temps would be acceptable for load?

 

[natr0n]

What temps would be acceptable for load?

I'm not familiar with that chip, but my rule is no more than 20 degrees over idle when under load/stressed.

Hopefully some lurkers with give proper temp input on this for you.

 

[OneMoar]

anything under a 90c is fine also its haswell so a few of the cores will run warmer then others
come on natr0n you should know that

 

[ChevyOwner]

What about Ivy Bridge-E? I ran IntelBurntest on High (Not sure if there is something better) and it ran for about 7 minutes highest temp I saw was 60c

 

[OneMoar]

What about Ivy Bridge-E? I ran IntelBurntest on High (Not sure if there is something better) and it ran for about 7 minutes highest temp I saw was 60c

all of intel's chips of the last few years are spec`d to 100c
tho generally its wiser to keep them below that anything under 85c is nominal
welcome to TPU fellow chevy owner

 

[ChevyOwner]

What is the vcore on this CPU I have been reading it is 1.3 something, but I cant find it. I am also seeing that the motherboard has it at 1.110.
Not sure what I did wrong here. The bios remembers the changes but they don't seem to take effect.

 

[OneMoar]

What is the vcore on this CPU I have been reading it is 1.3 something, but I cant find it. I am also seeing that the motherboard has it at 1.110.
Not sure what I did wrong here. The bios remembers the changes but they don't seem to take effect.

the 1.3v setting is most likely the load line calibration kicking in that ups the voltage as load increases 1.3 is a bit overkill for stock clocks try reducing the load line calibration and vcore target tho if you simply up the multiplyer
or you can simply raise the multiplier 1.3v should be good for 4.5Ghz or so

 

[ChevyOwner]

I cant seem to get any change to clock speeds to be used. The setting changes are seen in the bios, but are not used anywhere.
I wanted to know about the vcore for reference, as I could not find it online.

 

[OneMoar]

being a asus board you may need to disable the AI suite stuff in the bios

I cant seem to get any change to clock speeds to be used. The setting changes are seen in the bios, but are not used anywhere.
I wanted to know about the vcore for reference, as I could not find it online.

setting explained for your board here
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/x79-extreme4-dx79to-p9x79-benchmark,3138-5.html
make sure you aren't using any of that Automagic overclocking crap asus cramms into there firmware set everthing on manual if its not it would explain why nothing is sticking

 

[ChevyOwner]

No I'm not using the auto overclock stuff. I don't know if it is because of a different bios version or motherboard model but I don't have most of the settings that your link was referring to.

 

[ChevyOwner]

I don't know why it worked today, and not yesterday.

 

[ChevyOwner]

The final result on what fixed the temperatures is here.

As noted before there the cpu block was uneven, but in addition to that I did not use enough thermal paste.
After re-applying the thermal paste using the needed amount the temperature are now about 26-28C at factory speeds.