New build advice needed! i7-3930K

[g4dgets]

Hi All,

First off I am a noob so please go easy! I just completed my first build and managed to overclock my PC. My specs are:

i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz
ASUS X79 Sabertooth Mobo
16GB 1866MHZ Corsair Dominator RAM
nVidia 9500GT 1GB GPU (This is temp, I have a ASUS GTX680 on the way)
Corsair H100 CPU Cooler
Corsair AX850W PSU

I finished my build last week and overclocked my PC using the ASUS Autoclocking BIOS option. It overclocked my PC from 3.2GHz to 4.2GHz. I have a couple of quick questions i'm hoping someone will be able to answer.

Firstly i'm slightly concerned about my idle and load temp's. At idle the temp sits around 30C - 35C and under load it jumps up to 45C - 55C. Is this normal for a 4.2GHz overclock?

Second can some one please look at the screenshot below and tell me if all looks normal, I have no idea what it is i'm looking at and would greatly appreciate advice from someone who knows what they are doing!

Thanks in advance!!

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/7332/test2kw.png

 

[Bang]

I'm not expert, but from everything I've seen on this forum 45-55 isnt bad at all. Maybe at 65 you should get concerned, but it's still not panic time. Speaking of which I have started a thread relating to this very subject. Keep an eye on it

Dont worry too much at 55, it looks to me like your H100 is doing its job very well. Look at some of Toms reviews to get a better idea of what is ok and what isn't.

 

[SnW]

Those Temps are perfectly fine mate !

Ray...

 

[leejc73]

I'm reading your peak temps in HWMonitor as 66 degrees, whilst not particularly high you should have more breathing space with that overclock.
I've got no experience at all with 2011, other than what i've read that they seem to cascade on temp above a certain clock speed. I do however know about Asus motherboards and auto overclocking whilst handy won't optimise your settings for heat production, it'll look for stability whilst staying within the constraints of the processor. If you go in and start manually setting clock speeds/turbos/voltages then you'll find just as much stability at lower volts=less heat.
Also I don't know what others do but personally I dump speedstep so the cores are always running at turbo frequency, only because I noticed some stability issues with my lowest workable voltage with speedstep enabled.
Auto overclock is a good start point, but I would go in manually now and (changing one setting at a time) try and reduce your volts, don't forget your LLC as well which if set too aggressively will overvolt the processor on load.

Cheers
Lee

 

[rossi94]

Looks very cool, but you won't need the 850W I'm running a almost similar system with a 650AX and have still space for sli.

 

[Master&Puppet]

There is no problem with what you have there - temperatures rise when the CPU uses more power because of electrical resistance. It's perfectly normal.

Your temperatures are fine, most of us run our rigs into the 70s under load for everyday overclocks - the fact that this is a 2011 rig makes little difference.

Your temperatures could be better - but only if you did the overclock yourself. Using tools like ASUS autoclocking is quite a clumsy way of getting an overclock because it isn't as intelligent or as intuitive as you can be once you get some experience. The result is generally that it will over supply the volts at a particular clock and it will also only have a very quick testing method which doesn't prove stability.

 

[B3rni3]

Sounds ok.

Temps at 1.31v is fine and it is really only load temps you should worry about. As already said the auto overclock utilities on motherboards are ok but you can get better by doing it yourself. For example you can get a stable overclock on the 3930k of 4.6 ghz at 1.35v approx and it will be well within the limits of volts and should be for temps with the H100. I have the same cpu and motherboard so if you want help if you decide to go down the diy overclock feel free to ask.