Hello guys, Recently I've noticed that my PC has become way louder and creates a lot of heat around it (like a small heater). This is my system: Intel 4770K + Corsair H100 AIO MSI mPower MAX Z87 XFX R9 290 Corsair Vengeance Pro Ram (No CPU or GPU overclocks, not even XMP)
CPU temps are normal, idling at about 43 degrees for all 4 cores. System temp in bios is about 40 degrees. GPU temp is idling at about 60-65 degrees. This seems to be a bit much even for this heater of a GPU. The noise definitely comes from the GPU as I noticed that in CCC the fan was spinning at 80% from time to time. In MSI afterburner and CCC, the GPU activity sometimes spikes to 100% even when I'm just browsing the forum. Not sure if that's normal. According to Sysinternals, it is Chrome that is taxing the GPU. However I still don't think that the GPU is causing the problems. When I touched the RAM heat sink it was really hot. And according to Open Hardware Monitor:
As you can see there is this one temp at 107 C, but I don't know what it is. It could be a false sensor. Now it's summer here so it gets about 35 C during the day, but I don't think this is the reason. I checked the fans and all of them seem to be working properly at first glance. The PC really heats up and that is without playing games and stuff. I wonder what's going on. Any ideas?
Before we had heat sensors we would look for strange behavior. A 4770K is not cheap and should work perfectly, if you can still return it for a new one I would. If not and it runs fine maybe some canned air to clean the coolers.
That is NOT his processor, that's a wonky sensor on the motherboard, and is not to be blamed on his 4770k. He does not need to return it over this.
The sensor on your board is likely broken, as it is not uncommon. I have an updated version of the Nuvoton and it returns my Sensor #6 as 107c nonstop. Ignore it, nothing is wrong, don't return the processor, all is well.
It's not the CPU for sure. CoreTemp shows all 4 cores at 40 C and the Bios shows them at 40 C as well. It could be a wonky sensor because another sensor from OHW shows one temp at -27. I still think that the GPU runs a little too hot though at 55-65 Idle. What do you think? Also is it normal for the GPU to be run at 100% activity during browsing and stuff? It's not constantly it just spikes from 0% to 100% from time to time.
Maybe have a run through the Chrome plugins, as I dont generally find Chrome taxing the GPU enough to heat things up. You could compare running the same pages through Internet Explorer, which makes more use of the GPU in general.
