What thermal grease did you use?? I use Arctic silver and generally stay in the 40's.Under sustained load, the stock fan can only cool this CPU to 60C. I'm not happy with that.
I used the paste it came with. It was pre-applied.What thermal grease did you use?? I use Arctic silver and generally stay in the 40's.
I would pull the processor and take off the stock grease. It generally sucks. You can get 100% isopropanol to clean it off, then put a "rice grain" size of Arctic Silver. Will generally drop your temp significantly.I used the paste it came with. It was pre-applied.
75 is WAAAY too hot. I don't get above 61-62 C at full load running at 4.2 GHz. You're gonna have to pull that processor and replace the thermal grease. Might also consider an after market fan. They're only $30-40 or so and make a huge difference.Yeah, I should have done that in the first place. Last night I got it up to 75C. The fan responds, but that's scary hot.
Yea, the fans are a pain to put in after it's built. But... makes a HUGE difference!! you'd probably be able to easily bump your machine up to 3.8 Ghz at this point and not even see a change in the temps.I installed the big honking heat sink and fan. What a pain in the ass. I should have done it when I built the beast. But it dropped my temps @ sustained 100% load by 20C.
I have a fan on my desk that aims near the computer to help pull heat out.I've got it at 3.52Ghz now, and I definitely see a change in the temps. More ticks means more heat; there's no way around that. I think my front fan is too slow now. Maybe I need a new case...
Do you know what it cost?This is my work PC. HP 7100 Elite with a Core i7.
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