Quote Originally Posted by speckled10 View Post
Hey guys ..

My first time on this great forum .. thanks to help of guys like dejanh & Lukee I've managed to get my Core i7 build stable enough for 5+ mins of prime @ 4Ghz .. but with 1.4V & HT On my temps are through the roof ..





But strangely - Core #4 is consistently 10-15C lower under load (at a level I'm comfortable with) .. Core #1-3 are off the chart ..

Idle all good low 30's on all 4 cores (#3 is actually warmest @ idle)

Can anyone suggest if its likely a CPU problem vs. Cooler TIM application problem ?
Did you disable TM (Thermal Monitoring)? If you did, you might want to enable it. 93 will degrade that processor permenantly. It should be shutting down at 90, and personally I wouldn't even let one get over 75, but maybe for a couple minutes during a Chess Bench run or something that was a full load HT enabled with 8 loaded 100%.

That's not just dangerously hot, it's deathly hot.