i7 4770K Running 49-52 deg Celsius on BIOS?

The OP's temps are close to ball park for the oem cooler/fan, there are dozens of aftermarket coolers that are far superior and very affordable.

The OP should be aware of some of the pitfalls of cooling with h2o. Removing the cpu fan causes a increase in temps on the vrm's/nb and may require adding fans to cool that part of the mobo.

ETA: +10 on the 212 EVO. Lot of used ones on evilbay.

Weegee64101 said:

I would get it if I had the money now, but I don't have the money now. I'll have to wait until prob Q3 of this year to get some significant cooling

Solarstarshines said:

BTW you don't have to get the H100 lol there are plenty of Closed loop and air coolers out there

I didn't say you needed to get an H100i, I suggested you get a better cooler than the Intel.

sygnus21 said:

Anyway check your CPU cooler. BTW what cooler do you have? Never mind. Yeah, that Intel isn't doing you any justice. Get a better cooler, especially with the system you have.

There are many aftermarket CPU coolers out there at all sorts of price ranges, and do a better job than the stock Intel cooler.

And guys, please read the posts coming in....

Weegee64101 said:

EDIT----
I've realized that my one of stock CPU fan's black pins is not completely all the way through. I've tried to push it in, but it's as far as it can go. I've pulled back on the fan to see if it could wiggle loose, but it's firmly in there.
Just wanted you to know

That could easily explain why the CPU is/was running hotter than normal.

paulpicks21 said:

Britton30 said:

Yeah, but no news about whether or not his temps dropped.

A very valid point sir!

Which may indicate the issue was solved.

paulpicks21 said:

sygnus21 said:

paulpicks21 said:

A very valid point sir!

Which may indicate the issue was solved.

Possibly.
I still don't think the temps (for BIOS) on the stock cooler are not anything out of the ordinary, of course if he actually had Windows installed then it would have shown up a temp issue for sure as the CPU was put under load.
Hopefully he will drop by again soon to let us know if the BIOS temps changed after securing the heatsink properly. They may have but not by much IMHO.

I can tell you my core temps in the BIOS temps are a bit high too, but not that high - they read around 38, whereas desktop temp reading programs like AIDA64 show them much lower....



Still, I think 49-52 in the BIOS is a bit high, even for a Haswell chip. And he did state the CPU cooler wasn't fully seated so....

But yeah, only he can clarify if the issue is resolved or not. We're just guessing.