Its cool but is it too cool?

[Darklight1990]

hi all i've just completed a new build and i'm checking things over, i'm running a i7 2600K OC'd to 4GHZ with a noctua NH-D14 now the house is around about the 17 celcius mark, and running prime 95 for a hour the core temps didn't go above 50 degree avaeraging around 45. its in a cooler master storm trooper case if tat make any difference, i'm just not sure if this is just a good chip of if i've done something wrong during set up, this OC is stable with 1.2v, if fact i'm using it to write this, any help would be greatfull recieved thx

 

[SieB]

Sounds about right for 4ghz your voltage is pretty low so yeah temps seem about right.

 

[Goldskis45]

Good temps, there really isn't a too cool unless you have LN2

 

[Darklight1990]

yeah i was just worried that i hadn't applied the thermal compound properly or somthing, but i'm now running a stable 4.5Ghz OC and 1.4V and it maxes out around the 65 celcius mark and that was after a 12hr burn test with Prime 95 so it all seems to have coome up good

 

[SieB]

1.4v is a bit high for 4.5ghz try 1.35v, temps are fine though

 

[airdeano]

you might wanna try a cutoff on voltage at 1.37v for a 24/7 usage voltage. though the temps are good, its

one of the monikers to watch, but the voltage is what you are really tuning for overclock and achive best

speed with lowest voltage.

airdeano