Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2, Question

[Newborn92]

I broke my CPU fan, it was just a stock fan, on the BIOS it showed 77... and if I left it on long enough hit would go much higher, anyway I since I broke the fan I decided to buy a new one (better one) my budget was small.. so I bought.... "Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2"... what was quite an update in terms of a stock cooler, installed the fan went to BIOS.. it was around 50 ish.. when I got on wins 7, I opened a temp checker.. and it appears to just be sitting at 60c... not sure if that's good or not? my processor is... "Intel(R) Core(TM) I7-2600k@ 3.40, GHz" quadcore, if I game or even overclock it by using Primer65 a pc stress tester, it still sits at 60, so I am not sure if the program is detecting correctly, any help would be good.


UPDATE: just opened a different temp checker called... "openhardwaremonitor" and its showing the temp of.. around 41... not sure what to believe

 

[Mellon Head]

Try Core Temp. It's usually pretty reliable. Here's the link.

Core Temp

Open Hardware Monitor isn't bad, and it has a nice gadget to go with it, but I couldn't get it to read the core on my FX-8350 properly, and not all of the data would appear some of the time. I gave it up as unreliable.

Speedfan is a pretty good temp meter, too. I use that everyday for monitoring.

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

By the way. That's not a bad cooler. When I had one on my Phenom II 955 the temps never went above 50 on Prime95. Pretty respectable considering its price.

 

[Newborn92]

Hi, and thanks, basically I did use speed fan.. but for some weird reason the value was showing at -60 for my cpu... and same with some other program, then I used hardware monitor.. was the only will to display a reading, I just updated my BIOS as I was 3 years behind and heard my motherboard had bug glitch giving false readings.. updated and now idle at around 32c.. abit confused


I used prime.. my idle temp said 32 c... so far with stress test it's reading 59.5

 

[Mellon Head]

I used prime.. my idle temp said 32 c... so far with stress test it's reading 59.5

Those numbers are a little high, maybe, but still not outrageous. I think you should be able to do a little better with that cooler depending on your ambient temperature. What thermal compound did you use? And also, what is your CPU fan speed?

 

[Newborn92]

well the fan came pre applied.. and my room isn't that warm if I'm honest...... I also feel that it can do better.. I was thinking of maybe just getting some new paste, and just re doing it.. but I am not sure.. when I run prime... my core temps reach to around 70 ish area.


and my cpu FAN speed is at... is maybe at arounf 1400 rpm

 

[Newborn92]

update: I took my fan off twice.. resat it.. twice, no change, I decided to take off the thermal as it looked like it wasn't on correctly, the fan came pre-applied.. with out the thermal my temps have went up even higher.. all my cores have maxes of 50 at idle..... here's my new plan, going to buy new thermal.. (suggest if possible) was thinking about "Arctic Silver AS5 3.5g, High-Density Polysynthetic Silver "... and get some cleaning stuff called.. "Arctic Silver Arcticlean"

 

[paulpicks21]

update: I took my fan off twice.. resat it.. twice, no change, I decided to take off the thermal as it looked like it wasn't on correctly, the fan came pre-applied.. with out the thermal my temps have went up even higher.. all my cores have maxes of 50 at idle..... here's my new plan, going to buy new thermal.. (suggest if possible) was thinking about "Arctic Silver AS5 3.5g, High-Density Polysynthetic Silver "... and get some cleaning stuff called.. "Arctic Silver Arcticlean"

Can you just clear something up bud, I don't know if it's just the way your worded it. You are not currently running the PC with no thermal paste on the cpu are you?

AS5 Is good paste, I have used it for quite a while now.

 

[Newborn92]

update: I took my fan off twice.. resat it.. twice, no change, I decided to take off the thermal as it looked like it wasn't on correctly, the fan came pre-applied.. with out the thermal my temps have went up even higher.. all my cores have maxes of 50 at idle..... here's my new plan, going to buy new thermal.. (suggest if possible) was thinking about "Arctic Silver AS5 3.5g, High-Density Polysynthetic Silver "... and get some cleaning stuff called.. "Arctic Silver Arcticlean"

Can you just clear something up bud, I don't know if it's just the way your worded it. You are not currently running the PC with no thermal paste on the cpu are you?

AS5 Is good paste, I have used it for quite a while now.

yes, the fan came pre-applied... and my temps was still 40 idle.. I took the fan off twice.. resat it.. didn't help, the thermal looked messed up.. so I decided to take it off completely.. and buy some more and just apply it my self.. don't know if it will solve my 40c idle issue.. but without thermal paste it's alot higher than my old issue, so I will need to sort it out.

 

[paulpicks21]

update: I took my fan off twice.. resat it.. twice, no change, I decided to take off the thermal as it looked like it wasn't on correctly, the fan came pre-applied.. with out the thermal my temps have went up even higher.. all my cores have maxes of 50 at idle..... here's my new plan, going to buy new thermal.. (suggest if possible) was thinking about "Arctic Silver AS5 3.5g, High-Density Polysynthetic Silver "... and get some cleaning stuff called.. "Arctic Silver Arcticlean"

Can you just clear something up bud, I don't know if it's just the way your worded it. You are not currently running the PC with no thermal paste on the cpu are you?

AS5 Is good paste, I have used it for quite a while now.

yes, the fan came pre-applied... and my temps was still 40 idle.. I took the fan off twice.. resat it.. didn't help, the thermal looked messed up.. so I decided to take it off completely.. and buy some more and just apply it my self.. don't know if it will solve my 40c idle issue.. but without thermal paste it's alot higher than my old issue, so I will need to sort it out.

I am not surprised the temps are a lot higher if you are running it with no thermal paste. I would strongly advise you do not use the PC until you have put some paste on. I am surprised the PC is not getting thermal shutdowns. It is a very bad idea to run it with no paste.

 

[Newborn92]

Can you just clear something up bud, I don't know if it's just the way your worded it. You are not currently running the PC with no thermal paste on the cpu are you?

AS5 Is good paste, I have used it for quite a while now.

yes, the fan came pre-applied... and my temps was still 40 idle.. I took the fan off twice.. resat it.. didn't help, the thermal looked messed up.. so I decided to take it off completely.. and buy some more and just apply it my self.. don't know if it will solve my 40c idle issue.. but without thermal paste it's alot higher than my old issue, so I will need to sort it out.

I am not surprised the temps are a lot higher if you are running it with no thermal paste. I would strongly advise you do not use the PC until you have put some paste on. I am surprised the PC is not getting thermal shutdowns. It is a very bad idea to run it with no paste.

not worrying, my stock fan was on for years, the old paste was gone.. it was on so long, never had an issue.. my temps with out thermal paste, are few C higher sure.. but nothing that is going to harm my computer... people are saying with idle I should be getting around 28-35.. but with my new fan+ thermal was over 40... and yes ill be getting new thermal for sure.. as it does help a few C.. but still even with the old thermal I was still over what i should be.

 

[paulpicks21]

The new cooler you have is not amazing, reading through the thread you said at one point that it his 59.5C running Prime, then a little later you said it hit 70C, a lot of this could be to do with room temp, but Prime is very hard on a CPU, either of those temps are not bad. I expect if it was hitting 70C in Prime then general use and gaming it would only hit maybe 55C which is totally fine. Idle temps are not very important unless they are massively high, again room temp plays a big part but anything between 20 and 40 is OK really.

I don't think you had much cause for concern, but I think you do now without any paste on it. I would get some on ASAP and temps should be fine.

 

[Newborn92]

The new cooler you have is not amazing, reading through the thread you said at one point that it his 59.5C running Prime, then a little later you said it hit 70C, a lot of this could be to do with room temp, but Prime is very hard on a CPU, either of those temps are not bad. I expect if it was hitting 70C in Prime then general use and gaming it would only hit maybe 55C which is totally fine. Idle temps are not very important unless they are massively high, again room temp plays a big part but anything between 20 and 40 is OK really.

I don't think you had much cause for concern, but I think you do now without any paste on it. I would get some on ASAP and temps should be fine.

fan may no be great.. but it's better than a stock cooler.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Hi, and thanks, basically I did use speed fan.. but for some weird reason the value was showing at -60 for my cpu... and same with some other program, then I used hardware monitor.. was the only will to display a reading, I just updated my BIOS as I was 3 years behind and heard my motherboard had bug glitch giving false readings.. updated and now idle at around 32c.. abit confused


I used prime.. my idle temp said 32 c... so far with stress test it's reading 59.5

For a Sandy 2600 that is good temps Intel chips TJ max are low 100's

 

[Solarstarshines]

The new cooler you have is not amazing, reading through the thread you said at one point that it his 59.5C running Prime, then a little later you said it hit 70C, a lot of this could be to do with room temp, but Prime is very hard on a CPU, either of those temps are not bad. I expect if it was hitting 70C in Prime then general use and gaming it would only hit maybe 55C which is totally fine. Idle temps are not very important unless they are massively high, again room temp plays a big part but anything between 20 and 40 is OK really.

I don't think you had much cause for concern, but I think you do now without any paste on it. I would get some on ASAP and temps should be fine.

Whoa no Paste :banghead:

 

[paulpicks21]

The new cooler you have is not amazing, reading through the thread you said at one point that it his 59.5C running Prime, then a little later you said it hit 70C, a lot of this could be to do with room temp, but Prime is very hard on a CPU, either of those temps are not bad. I expect if it was hitting 70C in Prime then general use and gaming it would only hit maybe 55C which is totally fine. Idle temps are not very important unless they are massively high, again room temp plays a big part but anything between 20 and 40 is OK really.

I don't think you had much cause for concern, but I think you do now without any paste on it. I would get some on ASAP and temps should be fine.

fan may no be great.. but it's better than a stock cooler.

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I was not trying to say you bought a bad cooler, I kind of meant compared to say some closed loop water cooling or something. I just meant that you can't expect really low temps and that the temps you were getting "before" you removed the thermal paste were just fine for that kind of cooling.

 

[Newborn92]

The new cooler you have is not amazing, reading through the thread you said at one point that it his 59.5C running Prime, then a little later you said it hit 70C, a lot of this could be to do with room temp, but Prime is very hard on a CPU, either of those temps are not bad. I expect if it was hitting 70C in Prime then general use and gaming it would only hit maybe 55C which is totally fine. Idle temps are not very important unless they are massively high, again room temp plays a big part but anything between 20 and 40 is OK really.

I don't think you had much cause for concern, but I think you do now without any paste on it. I would get some on ASAP and temps should be fine.

Whoa no Paste :banghead:

I think you guys are getting abit mixed up.. "the fan I got has pre-applied paste" yet my idle temps still 40 c, under full load maybe around 70.. so tried to reset the fan.. and noticed the paste under it was a mess... wasn't smooth, even.. all lumpy.. so I am going to buy a better paste... what will be 100% better than it was before.. so I am confused will comments I am getting "oh no pasteeeee end of warzzzzzzorldddd" I get it.. thermal helps alot in cooling the system, and it's my intention to buy a better brand.. I never even cleaned the old thermal paste of.. I was that anxious to test the new fan out.... but trust me when I say this.. ill hopefully have thermal paste on it etc... around monday.. and hopefully then there is improvements....

P.S I will buy cleaning stuff for it aswell... so no need to panic.... I have intel.. my TJ is 98 C.. they can take quite a lot of heat.. and if it comes to a point where my computer can be harmed it will shut off.

 

[Solarstarshines]

The new cooler you have is not amazing, reading through the thread you said at one point that it his 59.5C running Prime, then a little later you said it hit 70C, a lot of this could be to do with room temp, but Prime is very hard on a CPU, either of those temps are not bad. I expect if it was hitting 70C in Prime then general use and gaming it would only hit maybe 55C which is totally fine. Idle temps are not very important unless they are massively high, again room temp plays a big part but anything between 20 and 40 is OK really.

I don't think you had much cause for concern, but I think you do now without any paste on it. I would get some on ASAP and temps should be fine.

Whoa no Paste :banghead:

I think you guys are getting abit mixed up.. "the fan I got has pre-applied paste" yet my idle temps still 40 c, under full load maybe around 70.. so tried to reset the fan.. and noticed the paste under it was a mess... wasn't smooth, even.. all lumpy.. so I am going to buy a better paste... what will be 100% better than it was before.. so I am confused will comments I am getting "oh no pasteeeee end of warzzzzzzorldddd" I get it.. thermal helps alot in cooling the system, and it's my intention to buy a better brand.. I never even cleaned the old thermal paste of.. I was that anxious to test the new fan out.... but trust me when I say this.. ill hopefully have thermal paste on it etc... around monday.. and hopefully then there is improvements....

P.S I will buy cleaning stuff for it aswell... so no need to panic.... I have intel.. my TJ is 98 C.. they can take quite a lot of heat.. and if it comes to a point where my computer can be harmed it will shut off.

Didn't want you to take it the wrong way but reading through the Thread it's sparse comments I and all of us are sorry for the mix up

It's a good idea buying a better paste just a little future advice though when ever using a new cooler it's best to take the pre-applied paste off and apply your own

Anyhow seems you have it under control Core temp and HWmonitor should give you the best Temps to go by

 

[Newborn92]

I got told to go by the core temps? as it's the hottest part.. and will tell me the real temp.. right or wrong?..


without thermal paste.. just idle.. is has a max of 50.. so... I got a lot of different suggestions to thermal paste? can you suggest any good ones?

 

[Mellon Head]

Arctic Silver 5

 

[Newborn92]

Arctic Silver 5

some say it's hard to spread, do you put like a little blob in the middle of the CPU, and spead with? I heard like an old card or something. and doesn't AS5 have a burn in period?