I7 7700 hits 81°C while EVO 212 cooler is on—need assistance.
I7 7700 hits 81°C while EVO 212 cooler is on—need assistance.
i7 7700 hits 80 under full load, 4.00ghz delivers 56w, note the graphics card also climbs to 81 degrees and the room stays at 25°C. I tried a more powerful cooler with better heat pipes, but still got the same issues.
I examined the older cooler (Spartan 5) and noticed it closely resembles the Hyper212. It uses two heatpipes instead of four, yet the overall fin area remains comparable. With a less powerful chip such as the 7700, cooling capacity is probably constrained more by fin size than by the number of heatpipes, which helps explain why both units reach similar temperatures. The stock cooler typically pushes the 7700 to around 90-95°C—just enough before thermal throttling begins. (It’s also likely quite noisy.) You don’t need an upgrade right now, but if you plan to invest in a better cooler later, a dual-tower option like the Peerless Assassin could be worth considering.
You might fit in with those who don’t mind the buzz. For most folks using these older 65W components, the stock cooler works just fine. Why did you switch to a cooler on a CPU that wasn’t throttling? The processor won’t speed up any further. You’re stuck at a maximum of 4 GHz for all cores unless you have a lighter workload.
Perhaps it needs some separation. It seems the paste isn’t properly attached to the TIM. I’m not convinced 81 degrees is typical for a 65W CPU that’s only drawing 56W. In my past builds with an i7-7700, I don’t recall hitting those temperatures, even though the graphics card stayed around 82 degrees and the room stayed between 25-30 degrees.
It doesn't need anything, your CPU is already at its performance maximum. Any further work might lower the temperature, but will give you zero gain in anything. Delidding would probably lower temperatures, sure, and maybe you just got unlucky in the silicon lottery. Or maybe your case has poor airflow, or maybe the fan is spinning slow, etc. Plenty of possible reasons, but there's no good reason to go down the rabbit hole.