Hi guy's (and gal's),
I've had my rig stable for around the past 8 months and thought it time to push it a little to see what is possible. I don't intend to seriously overclock, just experimenting out of curiosity. Normally I try and take good care of my PC's and they tend to last me well. My last system has lasted 9 years and is still going.
But my question is this, using Intel XTU to stress test the system I have noticed that I get higher CPU temps when stress testing the memory than when I test the actual CPU. I know from reading various sources that the memory controller is on the CPU, but is this normal? Could it be a sign that my thermal paste is not applied correctly? I've never had a problem applying paste before and have done this many times in the past.
At 4.5GHz and 3000MHz RAM my temps are looking pretty good. They generally peaked at 63 degrees C although the Benchmark suggests that it must have momentarily topped out at 67 degrees C.
I appreciate your thoughts on the graphs below.
Top graph is CPU stress test and graph below is Memory stress test followed my benchmark result.