i7 high temp

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I have an i7 930 and under full load (meaning 100% usage while rendering) it's at 75c. If I disable two cores and have it render at 75% usage it'll stay under 70c for the most part. The second I cancel the render , it dive bombs back down to 40c and idles there.

I've already redid the thermal paste , and no I didn't glob it on like an ape I did the typical center dab with nice rounded spread.

I've also hard wired the cpu fan to 100% and cleaned the heat sink. It's the tower style cooler with heat pipes. The case has tons of ventilation. taking the side panel off does nothing.

I'm thinking the heat pipes on the cooler might not work anymore. Or are very old and don't work well. The cooler is at least 6 years old.

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Heat pipes shouldn't really degrade as they're closed and semi passive.
i7 930 is a pretty power hungry chip regardless.

Care to post a picture of your cooler and such?
Also considering you're on x58, have you considered getting a x5650? Cool running very overclockable chip that supports your socket.

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I know they SHOULDN'T degrade. But honestly the internet isn't really sure when you google it. Nobody really tests heat pipes when they are new and then again 6 years later to see if they are still the same.

What bothers me is that the cpu idles and during basic internet usage and so on barely ever cracks 55c. but I wonder if the heat pipes on the heatsink can no longer move quickly enough when it really ramps up to 100%. Or perhaps the heat sink isn't designed well.

this isn't the case I'm using but it is the same board/cpu/heatsink it uses.

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Maybe you should get a higher capacity cooler. Xeons don´t produce as much heat as i7s do.

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considering its a old system its just more likely the thermal paste has turned to dust grab some arctic mx4 and replace the tim on the cpu.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186038

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You've got to be joking. Those temps are perfectly normal. My Haswell chip went to 100 when rendering or in prime95 with the stock cooler and some badly applied paste. No throttling, 5° away from tjmax.

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My FX-8320 runs 3860MHz at 1.3 Volts, full load with the Arcticcooling Freezer Xtreme Rev2 results in 58°C

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100c on haswell is the max operating temperature you are going to need to fix that bud.

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That does not sound normal for any chip... But I had a google, and that's kinda normal... far out... didn't know Haswell ran soooooo hot.

EDIT: Well, yours is still a little too high.

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100c is way too hot my haswell i5 whont even brake 60c

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Probs because your running windoes 95...

Na JK. I just saw this and took it as gospel. Maybe its crazy for him because of a stock cooler.

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lol looks like intel is putting shit on the stock cooling unit and calling it thermal paste then frankly toothpaste can do a better job then that xD

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Windows Server 2012 or 2008?

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Windows 7 Ult 64bit (its just classic mode)

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(Facepalms) Didn´t think of that...

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75C for that version of an i7 running at full load is fine. If you want it cooler you will need a larger heatsink or move to an AIO.

Coolers can only cool down to near room temps just keep that in mind

Since if you reduce the load it instantly drops down the cooler just can not dissipate that much heat being generated so either deal with the perfectly fine 75C or get a higher performance cooler.

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75°C is totaly fine, nothing to worry about.
40°C on idle is also very normal for a cpu like that.

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65 tops in summer with a properly installed hyper 212 evo.

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I think we're all aware that AMD CPU temp readings are kind of funky...

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Btw... My 4790k with a 4.8ghz overclock at 1.29v regularly hits 75c at full load. That's with an h100i in push/pull. Your temps are fine.