Question concering temps on i7 920.

Quantium · 02-20-2009, 04:08 PM

Heyop. Today I got my i7 920, with a Noctua NH-U12P fan. Installed it, and I'm currently having load temps of around 55c, when using orthos on all cores. Oh, and I havn't overclocked yet. In fact, that is my question.. Should I be able to overclock it to 4.0ghz with those temps?

I should say that i have never applied thermal paste before, and had to do it twice.. The first time, i had way to little, and the cpu was at 57c idle. Now I had a little thicker layer, and pretty smooth, but still, I don't know if I've done it good or bad.

I dunno about my airflow, but when I don't think it's really good, considering i have a really crappy fan to pull air into the case. In any case, the temps go down to 52 degrees when i take the side of the case off.

Anyway, thanks in advance.

Quantium · 02-20-2009, 05:28 PM

Update: I tried using RealTemp, and found out that idle temp on the 4 cores are 39, 41, 42, 40.
On load (after 1 and a half minute), they are 64 across all cores.

02-20-2009, 04:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
Quantium Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 18 OS: XP SP 2	Question concering temps on i7 920. Heyop. Today I got my i7 920, with a Noctua NH-U12P fan. Installed it, and I'm currently having load temps of around 55c, when using orthos on all cores. Oh, and I havn't overclocked yet. In fact, that is my question.. Should I be able to overclock it to 4.0ghz with those temps? I should say that i have never applied thermal paste before, and had to do it twice.. The first time, i had way to little, and the cpu was at 57c idle. Now I had a little thicker layer, and pretty smooth, but still, I don't know if I've done it good or bad. I dunno about my airflow, but when I don't think it's really good, considering i have a really crappy fan to pull air into the case. In any case, the temps go down to 52 degrees when i take the side of the case off. Anyway, thanks in advance.

02-20-2009, 05:28 PM	#2 (permalink)
Quantium Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 18 OS: XP SP 2	Re: Question concering temps on i7 920. Update: I tried using RealTemp, and found out that idle temp on the 4 cores are 39, 41, 42, 40. On load (after 1 and a half minute), they are 64 across all cores.