CPU temps?

[Perfecti]

Hey, I was curious if I can get help with my cpu temps. When @ BIOS I see it starts at maybe 43C and stays at a solid 35. But when I go into desktop its at like 25C. Then when I load steam it spikes up to about 54 degrees. Its irritating. I tried copying a folder with a BUNCH of sound kits for music, and my temps hit 72C! But when I play Alien isolation, it stays at a cool 30C...

[Tinkiete]

Maybe the fan doesn't work when it's supposed to like when you're at 54 or 72 but starts when you hit 80 or something like that.
Sorry that's the first thing that popped in my little tired brain.

[WarmedxMints]

Unless your room is very cold it is unlikely the CPU is going to be 25ºC when idle at the desktop. Check with so different software, you may be getting false readings.

[Perfecti]

Originally posted by Tinkiete:

Maybe the fan doesn't work when it's supposed to like when you're at 54 or 72 but starts when you hit 80 or something like that.
Sorry that's the first thing that popped in my little tired brain.

hey, nah the fan is working, I opened my case and it wass operating.

[Perfecti]

Originally posted by WarmedxMints:

Unless your room is very cold it is unlikely the CPU is going to be 25ºC when idle at the desktop. Check with so different software, you may be getting false readings.

I checked three apps, realtemp, open hardware, and AIDA64. all around 23 idle... I really dont know what the problem is...

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by WarmedxMints:

Unless your room is very cold it is unlikely the CPU is going to be 25ºC when idle at the desktop. Check with so different software, you may be getting false readings.

My 6700K idles at 20c.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Lycans:

Hey, I was curious if I can get help with my cpu temps. When @ BIOS I see it starts at maybe 43C and stays at a solid 35. But when I go into desktop its at like 25C. Then when I load steam it spikes up to about 54 degrees. Its irritating. I tried copying a folder with a BUNCH of sound kits for music, and my temps hit 72C! But when I play Alien isolation, it stays at a cool 30C...

Your temps really shouldn't be behaving like that, basic tasks like copying files should have little impact on your CPU compared to games like Alien Isolation.

When your PC is idle, pull up task manager and see how much load is on the CPU, it shouldn't be more than 5%ish.

[Perfecti]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Originally posted by WarmedxMints:

Unless your room is very cold it is unlikely the CPU is going to be 25ºC when idle at the desktop. Check with so different software, you may be getting false readings.

My 6700K idles at 20c.

have you ever had this problem? I have a 6700k as well. I tried asking all over reddit, and Tomshardware but nobody really bothers to help

[Perfecti]

at the moment its at like literally 0%

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Lycans:

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

My 6700K idles at 20c.

haveyou ever had this problem? I have a 6700k as well. I tried asking all over reddit, and Tomshardware but nobody really bothers to help

My CPU spikes a little when Steam is downloading, but when steam is idle it uses 0 CPU and just a few MB of RAM.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Lycans:

at the moment its at like literally 0%

And what are your temps?

[Perfecti]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Originally posted by Lycans:

at the moment its at like literally 0%

And what are your temps?

24C

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Lycans:

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

And what are your temps?

24C

So now your PC is idle and cool, try copying some files about and see if the CPU temps spike. It could have just been because Steam was installing something, and you were trying to copy files at the same time.

[Perfecti]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Originally posted by Lycans:

24C

So now your PC is idle and cool, try copying some files about and see if the CPU temps spike. It could have just been because Steam was installing something, and you were trying to copy files at the same time.

i deleted the old folder and recopied it. spiked to about 60C. Tried going to the steam store, and spiked to 59C :/

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Lycans:

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

So now your PC is idle and cool, try copying some files about and see if the CPU temps spike. It could have just been because Steam was installing something, and you were trying to copy files at the same time.

i deleted the old folder and recopied it. spiked to about 60C. Tried going to the steam store, and spiked to 59C :/

I don't think you have anything to worry about. Skylake idles really cool, but heats up quite quickly, a 4th gen I7 would idle much hotter, so when you did something, the temp spike wasn't that massive. It's not that your CPU is getting too hot, it's just idling really cool.

50c is half the TJ Max and Skylake CPU's can run in the 80's no problem.

If this is still bothering you, all I can suggest is that you try applying the thermal paste to the CPU again, when you did it the first time, maybe you used a little bit too much.

[Perfecti]

possibly. By the way thank you, you're like the first person that actually tried to help me with this. Im unsure as to what it is, I just know that this had occurred after I had wiped the pc, and fixed the fan back into place. Maybe I did something wrong? I don't want to bring it to microcenter after they ripped me off anyways... >.>