I consulted the company who built it for me and who supposedly overlocked it to 4.4GHz constant, and they say its perfectly normal.

Yep, as Westman rightly said, no way are you seeing normal temps.

 

Knowing your Vcore would help.

 

I'm not that familiar with your cooler, so not sure where it stands in regard to cooling efficiency.

So, after a few days of testing with the temps, I reset my BIOS settings to the 'optimized defaults' or something similar (probably not the best thing to do), and after that set my fans to full power. Now the highest temperature I am getting on 'High Performance' power option is 71 C and at idle 37-42 C. It seems like the performance in FSX has suffered slightly; a few FPS spikes.

 

Cheers

Rather than not the best thing to do... optimised defaults is absolutely the right thing to do when we have issues.

 

71C when? During a stress test? Running FSX?

 

If you have the capability, I would reseat your cooler with high quality TIM.

 

If you have the capability, I would reseat your cooler with high quality TIM.

 

Most be some issiues there , yesterday a mounted the Intel stock cooler on the 4790K @4.6ghz 1.3V idle 40C.

Might be a dumb question but could the OP be puting " too much" Tim on when reseating?

Thermal paste is for filling in the imperfections that are in the fan and CPU heat sink areas. It should be very thin. I had high temps. Then I carefully scraped the excess paste using the edge of a plastic credit card. My temps on the i5-2500K, overclocked to 4.2 ghz, run at 65c with P3D and Orbx scenery. Ambient is around 50c. Keep applied paste to a minimum.

Might be a dumb question but could the OP be puting " too much" Tim on when reseating?

It was built for him by a company I believe Rick. He hasn't reseated it yet.

 

The Antec Kuhler H2O 650 isn't the greatest cooler in existence, but I recon he should be seeing better temps than he is.

 

 

Thermal paste is for filling in the imperfections that are in the fan and CPU heat sink areas. It should be very thin. I had high temps. Then I carefully scraped the excess paste using the edge of a plastic credit card. My temps on the i5-2500K, overclocked to 4.2 ghz, run at 65c with P3D and Orbx scenery. Ambient is around 50c. Keep applied paste to a minimum.

 

50C, are you kidding? That's like 122 Fahrenheit. That must be a typo. :smile:

It was built for him by a company I believe Rick. He hasn't reseated it yet.

Oh right, should have read more carefully, well there still could be a chance that the company that did the build didn't seat it properly to start with. It has an aftermarket cooler, so chances are they applied the Tim.

I'd like to thank everyone for their input and advice!

 

I managed to fix this issue however I have two more issues: 

 

First one (new thread): http://forum.avsim.net/topic/448474-variable-performancefps-in-games-fsx/

 

Second one: does the change in value (multiplier) in these two images in the top right have any meaning or effect? Before: http://billedeupload.dk/?v=rZnD2.png After: http://billedeupload.dk/?v=DQJar.png'

 

Cheers,

 

Dan

 

I managed to fix this issue however I have two more issues

 

Dan

So what was the cause and how did you fix it?

Yes i would like feedback too.

I should've said that I was unclear what resolved it. I have been doing many system restores, reverted them sometimes, edited some BIOS settings, Windows updates and changing Windows Power Option from 'High Performance' to 'Balanced'. 

 

In the two links in my previous, you will see in both images that in the top right, the multiplier value is different. The one with 4.4GHz was with the high temperatures I was talking about (idling at 50 C and FSX at 80 C). The second one was with the lower temperatures (idling at 30C and FSX at 50-60 C).

 

I am still trying to work out what it was..

 

Cheers

My old PC was based around an i5 2500k CPU @ 4.3Ghz with Thermaltake Frio CPU cooler. The idle temperatures of each core were around 35-38C, and Prime95 stress tests increased this to around 65C.

 

My new PC is based around an i5 4690k CPU @ up to 4.6Ghz (not sure what they have overclocked it to yet) with CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler and Arctic MX4 Thermal compound. I would prefer to see the temperatures no higher than those in my old system.

 

Both systems are installed inside a CoolerMaster Storm Enforcer gaming case, which (IMO) is an awesome piece of kit. Lots of space inside, and a huge 200mm diameter fan at the front.

I should've said that I was unclear what resolved it. I have been doing many system restores, reverted them sometimes, edited some BIOS settings, Windows updates and changing Windows Power Option from 'High Performance' to 'Balanced'. 

 

In the two links in my previous, you will see in both images that in the top right, the multiplier value is different. The one with 4.4GHz was with the high temperatures I was talking about (idling at 50 C and FSX at 80 C). The second one was with the lower temperatures (idling at 30C and FSX at 50-60 C).

 

I am still trying to work out what it was..

 

Cheers

The reason your multiplier is different is because you have changed the power options settings.

 

If you set high performance, the CPU will run at a fixed frequency. If you use balanced, the CPU will reduce it's frequency and voltage to save power, when the system is idle. When you fire up a demanding add-on, the frequency will increase.

 

UEFI BIOS power saving features are ignored in high performance mode.