After 18 months I am back to PC gaming. Just completed my rig and my 4790k with stock speeds and stock cooler is about 75 degrees in games. I am not too familiar with current gen CPUs so I was wondering If I am well within my safe range?
To be fair no not really. So far my system is a 1080p 60 fps one. I will get an Oculus Rift in 2016 and thats it. Will only switch to a 4K setup when a single GPU can easily handle new games at 60fps.
There really is no point for me to OC but I know that to keep my CPU cooler I will get a H90i and will be tempted to OC
To be fair no not really. So far my system is a 1080p 60 fps one. I will get an Oculus Rift in 2016 and thats it. Will only switch to a 4K setup when a single GPU can easily handle new games at 60fps.
There really is no point for me to OC but I know that to keep my CPU cooler I will get a H90i and will be tempted to OC
The 4790k comes in at such a high stock boost that oc'ing isn't needed.
You can force it to hold 44 if you want. Boost on higher end mobo applies to all cores.
All I did there was set the min processor state at 100% in windows. I do usually just let the cpu do its thing though. I've yet to notice a real world difference between forcing the max clocks, and just allowing it to boost as needed.
Grats on the new system. That 4790k is still one hell of a cpu for gaming.
The 4790k comes in at such a high stock boost that oc'ing isn't needed.
You can force it to hold 44 if you want. Boost on higher end mobo applies to all cores.
All I did there was set the min processor state at 100% in windows. I do usually just let the cpu do its thing though. I've yet to notice a real world difference between forcing the max clocks, and just allowing it to boost as needed.
Grats on the new system. That 4790k is still one hell of a cpu for gaming.
Oh. I am clueless about whether Afterburner is accurate or reliable for CPU temps. Normally, I trust Real Temp. Do you have that? It's probably the same, but I guess I just can't help but be curious now.
These cpu run hot, but, that does seem pretty damned hot.
Those temps I'm showing are from the computer being turned on and sitting idle. Still, the hottest my cores get at stock are spikes of 60 or so.
Of course the temps I'm thinking of are in a ambient at 68-70f
Wait, how are you getting that temp? Is it just through normal use, or stress testing? Even at stock stress testing can put the heat on these things. I stopped using things like Prime95 myself and instead just use "Asus RealBench" to test the cpu. Works fairly well and gives you a good idea of temps and stability under normal use.
*Wrote this before reading your new post.
Yea, 85 c is pretty damned hot. Though, like I said, even with this H100i I hit 60 on the cores at times.
Oh. I am clueless about whether Afterburner is accurate or reliable for CPU temps. Normally, I trust Real Temp. Do you have that? It's probably the same, but I guess I just can't help but be curious now.
I will download it right now and play few rounds of games and see what happens.
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These cpu run hot, but, that does seem pretty damned hot.
Those temps I'm showing are from the computer being turned on and sitting idle. Still, the hottest my cores get at stock are spikes of 60 or so.
Of course the temps I'm thinking of are in a ambient at 68-70f
Wait, how are you getting that temp? Is it just through normal use, or stress testing? Even at stock stress testing can put the heat on these things. I stopped using things like Prime95 myself and instead just use "Asus RealBench" to test the cpu. Works fairly well and gives you a good idea of temps and stability under normal use.
I haven't touched my 4790k with prime95 or intel burn.
And yea, the 4790k is one hell of a gaming cpu. You just have to manage the temps. I'd assume the stock cooler was good enough, but, if you're in a hotter then average environment it explains the higher temps.
No, it shouldn't. Just watch that it isn't recording tons of temp files to your SSD if you have one. I manged to do about 8GB 8TB of data to my ssd using it without realizing it.
No, it shouldn't. Just watch that it isn't recording tons of temp files to your SSD if you have one. I manged to do about 8TB of data to my ssd using it without realizing it.
Samsung magic keep up with data written to the drive. I had Shadow Play running while I was gaming without realizing it was recording many hours of gameplay as temp files. I think it was like that for a few days. I had it pointed towards my data drive though. =/
Samsung magic keep up with data written to the drive. I had Shadow Play running while I was gaming without realizing it was recording many hours of gameplay as temp files. I think it was like that for a few days. I had it pointed towards my data drive though. =/
The drive was maybe a month old. I had about 200gb life time writes when I started messing with it. I had over 8tb or around 8tb when I realized what was happening. That was about a year and a half ago. I currently have a total of 10TB written to my drive. So, in well over a year I've written 2tb or so of data to my SSD.
Something like that. It's been a while and the details are fuzzy. I'm just saying keep an eye on it.
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