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- Sep 6, 2013
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- Z87MX-D3H
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- Intel i7-4770K
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- EVGA GTX 760
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- Classic Mac
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Hey everyone. First post here on Tonymac!
I just finished my first Hackintosh last night (this site was extremely helpful of course) and everything is running great! I dual booted this system, so I have Win 8.1 running on an SSD partition, which is where I'm running my stress tests from.
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I got home today and started up Prime95 to do a base burn test using the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility to monitor system stats. I am running the base clock of 3.5GHz with turbo up to 3.9GHz. I did a 10 minute test using the Blended Tests option in Prime95, and my CPU shot up to 90-something degrees after only a few minutes.
Based on what I've read here and elsewhere, a comfortable temp is somewhere around 70C, and not much above. This is somewhat troublesome, as I haven't touched my base clock at all, and I plan to be doing quite a bit of Cinema 4D rendering with this rig, which will pin the CPU for many hours at a time.
I'm further befuddled because I installed a Corsair H60 liquid cooler specifically so that I could overclock.
My instinct tells me that my heatsink / fans aren't working properly, so here's how I have my cooling physically set up: (all fans are 120mm)
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Lead from pump connected to CPU_FAN header on motherboard
Radiator mounted in the front of the case with fan in-between (pulling air into case). Lead from this fan connected to SYS_FAN2 header.
One stock Coolermaster case fan pulling air into case from the back. Lead connected to SYS_FAN1 header.
One stock Coolermaster case fan pulling air in from left side of case. Lead connected to SYS_FAN3 header.
One Noctua NF-P12 Fan blowing air out from the top of the case. Lead connected to CPU_OPT header.
All of the headers are 4 pin, and I have my leads connected to the "right" 3 pins. Don't know if that makes a difference.
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One thing I've noticed is that the fans don't seem to vary RPM very much, and they don't get very loud at all, even during the stress test. I also never hear my pump (I don't know if I should expect to?) Am I missing a BIOS setting somewhere that allows the fans to vary speed depending on CPU load or something? Just a shot in the dark with that one.
Any suggestions are welcome. In the mean time, I'm going to try messing around with the pump power lead and see if I can get anything to change, and I'll comb through the BIOS again to see if I can tweak any settings. Thanks in advance!
I just finished my first Hackintosh last night (this site was extremely helpful of course) and everything is running great! I dual booted this system, so I have Win 8.1 running on an SSD partition, which is where I'm running my stress tests from.
..................................................
I got home today and started up Prime95 to do a base burn test using the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility to monitor system stats. I am running the base clock of 3.5GHz with turbo up to 3.9GHz. I did a 10 minute test using the Blended Tests option in Prime95, and my CPU shot up to 90-something degrees after only a few minutes.
Based on what I've read here and elsewhere, a comfortable temp is somewhere around 70C, and not much above. This is somewhat troublesome, as I haven't touched my base clock at all, and I plan to be doing quite a bit of Cinema 4D rendering with this rig, which will pin the CPU for many hours at a time.
I'm further befuddled because I installed a Corsair H60 liquid cooler specifically so that I could overclock.
My instinct tells me that my heatsink / fans aren't working properly, so here's how I have my cooling physically set up: (all fans are 120mm)
..................................................
Lead from pump connected to CPU_FAN header on motherboard
Radiator mounted in the front of the case with fan in-between (pulling air into case). Lead from this fan connected to SYS_FAN2 header.
One stock Coolermaster case fan pulling air into case from the back. Lead connected to SYS_FAN1 header.
One stock Coolermaster case fan pulling air in from left side of case. Lead connected to SYS_FAN3 header.
One Noctua NF-P12 Fan blowing air out from the top of the case. Lead connected to CPU_OPT header.
All of the headers are 4 pin, and I have my leads connected to the "right" 3 pins. Don't know if that makes a difference.
..................................................
One thing I've noticed is that the fans don't seem to vary RPM very much, and they don't get very loud at all, even during the stress test. I also never hear my pump (I don't know if I should expect to?) Am I missing a BIOS setting somewhere that allows the fans to vary speed depending on CPU load or something? Just a shot in the dark with that one.
Any suggestions are welcome. In the mean time, I'm going to try messing around with the pump power lead and see if I can get anything to change, and I'll comb through the BIOS again to see if I can tweak any settings. Thanks in advance!
