[Arsinek]

I installed a Archon on my 2600k. Right now Im running it at stock speeds. What sort of temps should I be seeing?

 

[Ikthus]

Depends on what your ambient/room temperatures are, no one can tell you what temps you should be getting without that.

 

[hawkeeyee]

ok tell us what are your temps in load

 

[Arsinek]

i ran prime95 for like 15min and got to like 70-72

 

[hawkeeyee]

that's seem high for stock clocks for sure
do you now your ambient temps?

 

[Arsinek]

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Originally Posted by hawkeeyee that's seem high for stock clocks for sure do you now your ambient temps?

No. How would I figure them out?

 

[a pet rock]

Ambient temp = the temperature in your room. Most likely, you have a thermostat on your air conditioning if you have it. If you don't have air conditioning, then check the weather.

 

[Arsinek]

well i dont think my thermostat is accurate. im guessing its probably 73-77f in here. lol. you telling me overclockers just use their household thermostat to get their ambient temps?

 

[LtCheese]

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Originally Posted by Arsinek well i dont think my thermostat is accurate. im guessing its probably 73-77f in here. lol. you telling me overclockers just use their household thermostat to get their ambient temps?

I have a little digital clock that I just have displaying the ambient in the room haha

 

[hawkeeyee]

anyways I had 72-75 with D14 and [email protected] with ambiet 30-31C

so yours temps is really high...I would say too much TIM? did you screw archon hard enough?

 

[Dustin1]

Just overclock it and see if the temps get better

Just kidding, but yeah, sounds like too much TIM or a improper seat of HSF. I'd suggest taking it off, cleaning it, and reapplying just a THIN line of TIM and reseating your cooler brahbrah.

 

[Arsinek]

Well one thing I just noticed was I had Asus's TPU and EPU switches on the mobo turned on. I think my cpu may have been running at 4.4ghz. But only sometimes? I cant tell what the thing is running at as cpuz shows the core speed as constantly fluctuating. Core voltage also fluctuates. Is this normal?

 

[Arsinek]

Ok, I turned the tpu and epu off. Looked around about fluctuating core clocks, it appears it might be load-line calibration. So when I run prime95 voltage and clock now hover around 1.168v and 3.512g. Now highest core temp is 55. But I havent run prime95 for long. How long does prime have to run before temps max out?

 

[cloppy007]

Give it 10-30 mins

 

[Arsinek]

Yep. So now it seems to be running at stock speed, 3.5g, max temp 55c. This is without 1 side panel on though, got to put that back.

 

[crashdummy35]

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Originally Posted by Arsinek;15324379
well i dont think my thermostat is accurate. im guessing its probably 73-77f in here. lol. you telling me overclockers just use their household thermostat to get their ambient temps?

Put a cheap digital cooking thermometer on the desk and let it register.

 

[blackbalt89]

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Originally Posted by LtCheese;15325850
I have a little digital clock that I just have displaying the ambient in the room haha

Same here.

Sit's a bit off to the side of my monitor so that the temp of the screen won't affect it much.

Those temps are a bit high for a stock CPU. I think you need to check your case airflow or try torquing down the heatsink a bit more. If those two things fail then I would say reseat the heatsink with fresh paste.