I've just put together a new build based on an i7-6700K, Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 5 m/b, 16 GB of g.skill DDR4-3200 RAM, and a Hyper 212 EVO cooler with Arctic Silver 5. Running Prime95 at stock speeds with small FTTs, I'm getting about 65C. With XMP on, at 4.4GHz, it jumps up to about 74C. At 4.5GHz, it was around 79C for the first 8 minutes and then BSOD. There was little variation across the 4 cores. My feeling is that I probably didn't install the cooler and thermal paste well, which lead to the temps that I saw, and the resulting instability. I tried looking up online what temps people are getting with the same CPU, but I got varied answers.
Am I running hotter than expected?
I just read somewhere that running with XMP so that I can get the full 3200 MHz speeds on my RAM might also lead to instability. I'll have to wait to get home tonight to test that.
Am I running hotter than expected?
I just read somewhere that running with XMP so that I can get the full 3200 MHz speeds on my RAM might also lead to instability. I'll have to wait to get home tonight to test that.