15 Degress C above Ambient!!! on idle....

[Firat]

hey guys,

take a look at the image below

my ambient temp is 26 degress C

i get 60-65 degrees on load but why is my idle temp so high?

im running a 4.5ghz overclock at 1.34v

its a 2600k on a z68-ud7

got a ek supreme hf block with a rx 240 rad and the pump is a laing ddc ulta (18w)

if you need more info do let me know but the temps seem a bit high to me,

any ideas or am i just being paranoid? but 15c delta seems a bit too high for watercooling...

Thanks

void the min temps, those temp represent when the pc gets switched on initially as the water temp is cool.

The current temp is a few hours of the pc on idle.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

All that comes to mind is perhaps the rad fans aren't strong enough - I know a fair bit about WCing but have zero experience so it's short sighted leading the blind here :S

 

[Chaney579]

Haha, this is where people kind of get ripped by EK, even though they do make the best waterblocks IMO but i have a 360 rad with a LF block. And have an idle (with an OC of 4.8ghz 1.33V) of 31c max load of 51c. In my opinion that is not bad at all. But then again it could be a bit lower, just depends on case, fan setup, what temps your gpu is pushing into your case etc. I mean there are a lot of variables. Again i think i could live with those temps and the setup described.

 

[Firat]

Still, seems a bit high to me considering ambient temps.

Temps in general seem high when it's freezing her in the uk!!!

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Still, seems a bit high to me considering ambient temps.

Temps in general seem high when it's freezing her in the uk!!!

I had my windows flung wide open and could only get the case temps down to 17(C)!

I don't call this freezing - I've gotten temps down to 7-9(C) last winter.

Tonight stock 1090 was at 14(C) on the cores and 25(C) on the spreader

 

[Celty]

Just curious, what's delta expectation you projected or hoped for?

 

[Firat]

Just curious, what's delta expectation you projected or hoped for?

arount 5-7 Degrees C

 

[Celty]

I'm hoping I'll get 7 to 8 delta on my setup, I'll probably start leak testing tomorrow. That will be a cpu only loop with EX240 and 200mm Phobya, and a Raystorm block. Though that is projected with a higher overclock, perhaps 4.8 to 5Ghz depending on voltages and heat.

 

[Chaney579]

if you can hit 5ghz 24/7 stable with voltages you are okay with more power to ya brother, but i havnt met a person to date who is okay with running 1.4V+ 24/7 use haha,

 

[Celty]

Yea and I have no idea what this cpu is gonna do yet, I've only run it at default with the stock cooler so far. Just have to let it tell me what it's good for.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

if you can hit 5ghz 24/7 stable with voltages you are okay with more power to ya brother, but i havnt met a person to date who is okay with running 1.4V+ 24/7 use haha,

I read to date in the wrong context at first XD

 

[Celty]

Have it up and going. Just running stock speeds on idle I'm seeing about a 5.25 degree delta, while at 100% loads I'm seeing about a 30 degree delta. Dunno if that helps.

 

[Celty]

I wanted to make sure I did not give you bad information. I remounted my block, and in my last post the deltas were using the Asus software for a temp. I then set a traditional manual overclock at your voltage and ghz. Using the same software OC3D monitoring software, I'm getting an idle temp delta of 13.33 C. Not that much different than your temp.

Here's my suggestion if your motherboard supports it. Rather than setting your voltage traditionally, use the Offset Mode. The reason is that at idle your voltage will lower itself, when it's not needed. Your temps should drop quite a bit, as well as saving that CPU from time spent on over volting.

I changed to a 4.8ghz overclock using offset mode. I wound up adjusting the offset voltage a -.03 to get to a Vcore of .984 at idle and an idle temp delta of 9.2C, which is a pretty nice drop from the 13.33C delta of a manual method. On a prime95 load the Vcore is at 1.352 volts. The load delta is 33.23, essentially it's just a tad less efficient at load than a manual method, but a lot more efficient overall if you want to get to a set it and forget it overclock.

For a 4.8 ghz overclock using the offset mode you'll probably have to fiddle with vrm settings in bios to get stable, but it seems worth it.