P67 Overclocked Bundle High Temps

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I'm posting on behalf of a friend; recently said friend ordered the P67 i5 2500k 4.4ghz Radius bundle, he chose the H60 over the Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 because I did not see how a cooler with a 92mm fan would be sufficient cooling for an overclocked i5 2500k.

He didn't install the bundle himself and I live too far away to be able to do it for him or easily check if something has gone wrong, so he paid someone from a local company to install it into the system he already had, replacing the older parts. He'd previously dealt with this company before and had no problems.

The issue is after he had everything setup I instructed him to perform some stress tests to check temperatures and make sure everything is ok. Using Prime95 blend test after only a minute or so his Core temperatures peaked at 80 degrees C with a vCore of 1.41, both of which I believe to be far too high for his cooling setup and case, (Lian Li PC-P80) do you normally see such high temps/are you ok with them being this high? His GTX570 that he also ordered at the same time doesn't have high temps under full load, (peaked at 69c I believe) lower than the CPU in fact. When the person he paid installed it he told him he wanted the fan on the H60 exhausting the air out the back but after putting his hand up against the fan he couldn't really tell which way the air was blowing, but felt like it was intaking rather than exhausting out the back. That aside, I feel that no matter if it was exhausting or intaking the temp still shouldn't be that high...

When you overclock these bundles do you use an automatic vCore in the BIOS settings or do you manually configure it? He told me one of the e-mails from Scan said something like changing any setting in the BIOS would void his warranty, so he doesn't want to even look at anything in case he makes a mistake, let alone change it. I think it's safe to assume the cooler was mounted correctly as I'm sure your staff have built this bundle multiple times, but I suppose that doesn't rule out the mounting fouling up during shipping.

[Jonj1611]

The temp seems about right at full load if not a little too hot though and I believe the H60 does bring air in from outside rather than exhaust it mate.

I maybe corrected but all seems ok to me?

Regards

[spoons33]

I have the Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 pro on an i7 which is currently running at 4.4Ghz, using prime 95 it gets up to 83c....I have no problem with this temp....my gpu (gtx 580) gets up to 75c running battlefield 3.

[Hoonigan]

1.41v sounds quite high tbh, I'm running at 45x100 (4.5GHz) with a v-core of 1.28v

[bbbbbb]

Well my own i5 2500k that I overclocked to 4ghz needs 1.35v which from what I read was quite high so maybe I didn't get a good overclocking chip, but I'm using a Hyper 212+ and I peaked at 50c in Prime and it never goes above 40c during play. I also have the fan on 30% until it goes above 45c, where it goes to 40%.

When I was researching to overclock my own chip I'd read that putting it on Auto vCore in the BIOS puts the voltage up way higher than what is needed, so I had wondered if this was what Scan do when they put these bundles together... Or it could just be that he has an even worse overclocking chip than mine?

[m01ateusz]

i have i7 2600k at 4,7 Ghz and 1,42 v and after 5-10 mins of Prime95 CPU is 80-83C
my H60 intake air from the outside
when i lost my OC profiles, i recived a list of settings to check in BIOS, and there was setting CPU voltage manually

[Hoonigan]

My 2500k never reaches any higher than 55'C while running Prime95. That's under a TRUE120 Black with a push-pull fan system.

[Mick@SCAN]

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Could you please ask your friend to submit an online query via our website and I will look into this for him. Please ask him to include the link to this thread in his support ticket.

https://secure.scan.co.uk/aspnet/sup...px?QueryType=R

The voltages are normally set by the engineer who builds the bundle. Unfortunately mileage may vary with overclocking, some chips need more voltage than others to achieve the desired overclock.

Kind regards,