W/ 10K Problem size your temps will be lower too. Try 25K PS and you will get a few degrees higher! (not good)
I'm guessing you have only 4GB or less? If not, something is wrong with your avail mem; let us know and we will help that.

Maybe your H50 isnt seated properly? What TIM are you using?



High 80ies are ridiculous on water.

Here Is all the info i can round up from windows atm.

So layer on more TIM? Or just redo the layer like i have currently?

Remove all of your TIM first. Do it very carefully, and remove the heatsink carefully as a bit of it could fall into your CPU socket. It really depends on what TIM you use as to how to remove. With AS5 you can use 70% rubbing alcohol like this:

Wipe off the excess first using cotton balls or Q-tips. Wipe toward the center of the CPU to avoid wiping it into your socket. Wipe the edges very carefully if there is excess hanging over. Then clean the excess off of the heatsink. Then pour a little alcohol into the cap, and dab the cotton ball into it, you only want several drops in the ball, you don't want the ball soaked. Wipe the ball over the CPU with the same action directed for removing the excess, be careful not to squeeze alcohol into your socket (it won't hurt it if you let it evaporate, providing you don't get TIM in there). When it looks clean you are done. Let it evaporate before applying TIM.

There are commercial TIM cleaners out there, you may need it for the thicker stuff like Ceramique. Good luck.

Thank you I will use this thread as an example for ppls to show what a difference proper TIM spread can make, and how the credit-card method is a no-no!

What is that TJ Max?

ibuyufo

What is that TJ Max?

That TJ max should be 100. Lowering it to 99 will make your core temps look 1 degree lower. Default is always 100 with core temp but some CPU's require you to lower it to 85 or 90. This is so you get a correct reading on core temps according to your specific CPU.

HalloweenWeed

TJmax is just core temp minus whatever setpoint you put in. I ignore it.

Do not ignore the TJMax. Intel's core sensors give you the distance to TJMax, so if your TJmax is set to 100c, but your sensors are calibrated to have a TJMax of 95c, your temps are going to be 5c cooler than they actually are.

RealTemp and CoreTemp do a good job of accurately finding the TJMax, so its not something we typically have to worry about, but neither are perfect. For example RealTemp will drop my TJMax to 95c when I go back to stock speeds compared to my 24/7 overclock, so even with the same CPU temp (not core), my core temps appeared to be 5c cooler than they actually were.

Thanks for the explanation!  I used to overclock a long time ago when Pentiums II were still around.  I'm really baffled by all this overclocking stuff these days that I don't do it any more and just use it as it is.

I think the real culprit here is the h50 with those clocks.  Look at my gear and I won't even do that to my stuff.

I received my b-stock EVGA E578 motherboard.  It's a Rev. 1.1 and it seems to be working fine.  Detects all 12 gb ram.  Need to get a program to check how fast ram is running.