tomtomtom1230
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Sooooooo I've got an Intel Core i7 5820K...
Great processor, I just wanted a *little* more juice from it.
Down to business... I've got the Coolermaster 212 tower cooler on there and I've ramped the multiplier up to 39 gradually over the last few day, keeping the clocks at 100MHz (you know how it goes, tinkering here and there). It's all still stable and I'm happy at that speed - considering I'm only air-cooled - so I thought I'd download Speccy to keep an eye on the temperatures whilst I pummeled the cores with some small FTTs in Prime95 (26.6.1.0 to be precise).
Now, I did this over the course of around 7-10 minutes and I'm confident that this is as hot as the cores are going to get at full load. Take a peak...
What I now want to know: is this acceptable? The temperatures you can see there are the absolute maximum I've observed and had been unwavering for around 3 minutes. Bare in mind that today is pretty warm in my house (unusually so), though I do prefer to keep my room cooler (and I normally do), it just isn't possible right now to bring down the ambient air temperature. Today, the hottest 2 cores are 'idling' at 42-43 Celsius (not completely idling, I have a few apps open but they're not CPU intensive in the slightest). I appreciate that's a little on the warm side, but it won't do the processor any harm at that temperature right?
I dare say I'll not truly max out this processor in a 'real world' situation. I normally just game on it though I do do audio work on it a fair bit, I still don't see myself reaching 100% usage in a regular gaming or audio work situation.
EDIT: Sorry for the upside down picture, will correct this shortly.
EDIT: So it appears as though however I orient the image, it will display upside down when I attach it here. Lol... Sorry...
EDIT: Fixed it... Sort of lol I have screen shotted the image instead.
Great processor, I just wanted a *little* more juice from it.
Down to business... I've got the Coolermaster 212 tower cooler on there and I've ramped the multiplier up to 39 gradually over the last few day, keeping the clocks at 100MHz (you know how it goes, tinkering here and there). It's all still stable and I'm happy at that speed - considering I'm only air-cooled - so I thought I'd download Speccy to keep an eye on the temperatures whilst I pummeled the cores with some small FTTs in Prime95 (26.6.1.0 to be precise).
Now, I did this over the course of around 7-10 minutes and I'm confident that this is as hot as the cores are going to get at full load. Take a peak...
What I now want to know: is this acceptable? The temperatures you can see there are the absolute maximum I've observed and had been unwavering for around 3 minutes. Bare in mind that today is pretty warm in my house (unusually so), though I do prefer to keep my room cooler (and I normally do), it just isn't possible right now to bring down the ambient air temperature. Today, the hottest 2 cores are 'idling' at 42-43 Celsius (not completely idling, I have a few apps open but they're not CPU intensive in the slightest). I appreciate that's a little on the warm side, but it won't do the processor any harm at that temperature right?
I dare say I'll not truly max out this processor in a 'real world' situation. I normally just game on it though I do do audio work on it a fair bit, I still don't see myself reaching 100% usage in a regular gaming or audio work situation.
EDIT: Sorry for the upside down picture, will correct this shortly.
EDIT: So it appears as though however I orient the image, it will display upside down when I attach it here. Lol... Sorry...
EDIT: Fixed it... Sort of lol I have screen shotted the image instead.
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