[damien c]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Seriously? I think there's something pretty wrong with that setup if those are the temperatures you are getting. I've seen better heat dissipation on a 240x120mm radiator with 900RPM fans.

Hell, my single-fan air-cooler at 1100RPM does better than that... Double-hell, even my SFF (2cm high) Intel stock cooler keeps the core temp to around 65'c under load, albeit on a Haswell Xeon that probably consumes less than half the power of your (and mine) overclocked i7's.


For the record Haswell thus far hasn't turned out to be any less power hungry than Sandy or Ivy Bridge under load (sometimes even a bit higher) but is a hell of a lot more efficient at idle and produces better IPC. I wouldn't expect that equation to change much with Haswell-E.

This chip I have is not a very good overclocker, it needs 1.45v to hit 4.6ghz for full stability but if I want it stable enough to just game on then it will do it at 1.35v and hit temps of about 50c.

Sandybridge E chips are hot though, which is why many air coolers don't work on them even at stock speed and the likes of Corsair's AIO's don't do a great job on them.

That radiator though may be large but it doesn't drop the temps by that much although, it did drop them by 15c when going from a 480 and a 360 to the 1080.

It is currently 26c in my room and my cpu's core temps are ranging from 39c to 45c, and if I was to take the overclock off they would drop down to atleast low 30s.