- Apr 2, 2001
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I finally upgraded last night from my 3 year old 6600K @ 4.5GHz to an 8700K. The new chip is running well @ 5.0GHz with 1.27v on a Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro. I'm still rocking my Thermalright Ultra-120 from October of 2007! Trying to figure out what the real temperatures are though.
Under load:
MSI Afterburner - 93
HWMonitor - 94 (package, highest core)
Gigabyte EasyTune - 78
AIDA64 - 94 (highest core)
Idle the temps are closer, maybe spread by about 10C. Mid 30s and 40s. As the system is (currently) stable while stress testing, I'm inclined to leave it alone. Games are the only thing that really stress the system these days, and even HWMonitor doesn't show the cores getting past the mid 70s in that use case, so this is truly the worst case that my chip should see for a sustained period. Based on the consensus, my guess is that the chip is actually in the low-mid 90s, but Gigabyte's own utility is sort of a wildcard. I'd also expect some instability that I've yet to experience so far, though I have not stress tested for more than an hour at this point.
Under load:
MSI Afterburner - 93
HWMonitor - 94 (package, highest core)
Gigabyte EasyTune - 78
AIDA64 - 94 (highest core)
Idle the temps are closer, maybe spread by about 10C. Mid 30s and 40s. As the system is (currently) stable while stress testing, I'm inclined to leave it alone. Games are the only thing that really stress the system these days, and even HWMonitor doesn't show the cores getting past the mid 70s in that use case, so this is truly the worst case that my chip should see for a sustained period. Based on the consensus, my guess is that the chip is actually in the low-mid 90s, but Gigabyte's own utility is sort of a wildcard. I'd also expect some instability that I've yet to experience so far, though I have not stress tested for more than an hour at this point.