i7 920. What temps should I expect on stock cooling?

[THERESONATOR]

I've been getting as high as 60 degrees C at 2.66Ghz but its gone down to 45-50 lately. Is this bad?

 

[krypto1300]

With the setup in my sig I've been getting anywhere from...

28c - 35c idle

66c - 72c full load

 

[n7]

Bad ones.

Intel stock heatsinks are generally utter crap, just barely adequate, & no, your temps are fine, though what are load temps?

 

[2March]

Stock 920's can hit 80 C with Hyper-Threading on and all 8 logical cores under 100% load with the stock cooler. But exept for benchmarking programs there aren't many apps that wiil push it that far.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

it all depends on your ambients

 

[irsei]

up to 70c-75c under full load for an extended period of time with the stock cooler, and everything in bios set to auto seems to be par for the course with the 920.

these higher temps are usually hit when your cpu goes into turbo and the auto vcore goes up to probably 1.25 or higher and then stays there for awhile. (like 3 hours of gaming)

also, the room temps, and your case air flow are important and can change the effectiveness of the stock cooler.

last thing is that each individual chip is going to have a different voltage tolerance and if you have a chip that is unstable at lower voltages, than your VID signal is going to send a higher value to the mobo regulator and you will end up with a hotter cpu.
look at the intel data sheet on the 920 find it here... http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=37147

and find the information on the VID and the PCU; intel made changes to the voltage signaling because of the onboard memory controller.

I have also read that beacause this is a new feature, intel has not ironed out all of the manufacturing processes, and it is resulting in a greater variance of CPU and onboard memory controller voltage tolerances. (i think it was in an anandtech article, anybody have that one?)


i am getting the same temps as krypto1300... and i am overclocked to 3.2, but i manually lowered my cpu voltage to 1.045v.
but your chip may not be stable at that low of a voltage, they are all different.

but, basically, i don't think you have a problem at your current temps.

 

[Gwiggles]

It largely depends on case airflow, but if those are your load temperatures, they're quite good for the stock cooler.