i7 Temp Question

[memnoch_thedevil]

I have a question about my i7 temps.

I haven't really played a whole lot with the overclocking yet, just did a few runs to find some decent clocks that were stable. I stopped at 3.9 for now, until I can finish my case, and have adequete cooling in place.

My question though, I haven't gone down as low as I want on the volts yet, to find my highest overclock on the lowest possible volts, but I did notice that @ 1.2v @ 3.6GHz, my temps do not vary that much from my 1.247v 3,9GHz oc.

This is of course during the hottest part of the day, and at night, when it's cooler in the house the difference between the two grows. Is it just because my ambient temp is so high, that even at lower speeds and volts, my temps are within a couple of degrees of each other?

I know that these tests will all change, once my case is actually finished and I have all of my cooling in place. Then I will be able to do a more accurate and closer comparison of the two different clock speeds and volts.


I'm just curious too, why the i7 runs so much hotter than the AM3, when I have been able to push the i7 much further and on much less volts too.

Thanks for the info...

 

[Zero82z]

This is of course during the hottest part of the day, and at night, when it's cooler in the house the difference between the two grows. Is it just because my ambient temp is so high, that even at lower speeds and volts, my temps are within a couple of degrees of each other?

Idle temps or load temps? If they're idle temps, similar levels even at different overclocks are to be expected. If they are load temps, then it probably is down to your high ambient temperature.

I'm just curious too, why the i7 runs so much hotter than the AM3, when I have been able to push the i7 much further and on much less volts too.

Different CPUs, different architectures, different manufacturing processes. You can't directly compare temperatures between Intel and AMD CPUs, or even between Intel CPUs using different architectures.

 

[memnoch_thedevil]

Idle temps or load temps? If they're idle temps, similar levels even at different overclocks are to be expected. If they are load temps, then it probably is down to your high ambient temperature.

Idle temps and load temps...the idle and the load temps are slightly higher on the 3.9 overclock, but only 3-5C difference. It's the idle that I am most curious about, I just assumed less volts + lower overclock = lower idle temps. Mid to high 40's just seemed a touch high.

Different CPUs, different architectures, different manufacturing processes. You can't directly compare temperatures between Intel and AMD CPUs, or even between Intel CPUs using different architectures.

I understand, thanks for the info.

 

[Duxx]

What exactly are your temperatures during load/idle and ambient? And like zero said, you cannot compare relative temps between different architectures, their Tjunct's are different and some withstand high temps/voltage a lot better than others.

You still using stock heatsink?

 

[memnoch_thedevil]

What exactly are your temperatures during load/idle and ambient? And like zero said, you cannot compare relative temps between different architectures, their Tjunct's are different and some withstand high temps/voltage a lot better than others.

Here are the screen shots from my previous P95 runs on the 3.6 & 3.9, overclock, just click the thumbnails for bigger size. It would seem I was wrong any way lol...they are a little farther off from each other than I thought, especially on load, it must have just been an off reading I was looking at the other day. I am going to run another stress tonight to see if temps have altered in any way from the first run @ 3.6, which I am at lower volts for 3.6 now, then I was before too.

You still using stock heatsink?

Using the DarkKnight for now, I have a TRUE Spirit that will be here Thursday.


I do have another question kind of related.

Any point to running it at 3.9GHz over 3.6? I can get pretty low on the volts with 3.6, I am still testing, but I think I can go even lower, I am currently testing at 1.18v, and I haven't gone over 65 yet on max temp loads, where as I am in the 80's on load with 3.9GHz...

 

[troisanh]

Any point to running it at 3.9GHz over 3.6? I can get pretty low on the volts with 3.6, I am still testing, but I think I can go even lower, I am currently testing at 1.18v, and I haven't gone over 65 yet on max temp loads, where as I am in the 80's on load with 3.9GHz...

for gaming you probably wont see much a difference.