Octane III CPU Temperatures

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David010203

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Hey everyone,

I'd like to ask a question about my CPU temperatures in my Octane III 6700k GTX1080.
I'm running The Elder Scrolls Online on max graphics, GPU temperature goes to about 60 Celsius which is really good, but my CPU goes as high as a 85 Celsius. Could anyone that also owns an Octane III tell me about their experience with CPU temperatures? I've read through the forums, but I haven't found that much regarding CPUs, mostly about GPUs.
Any other suggestions are more than welcome :) What do you think the normal(safe) temperatures would be?

Thanks!
 
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Scott

Behold The Ford Mondeo
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I would suggest that 85°C would be the safe maximum. Unfortunately I don't think you will be completely maxing the system at the moment. Do you have GTA V? Go into the video settings and manually put EVERYTHING to maximum. This is actually past the default ultra setting. I found that I could hit 90+ quite easily with only 10-20 minutes of play with those settings. From there I used that as my base and under-volted until I was happy.

If you're happy with 4Ghz then I would suggest a 200mv undervolt on the CPU and see how it fares. My CPU happily ran at 4.2Ghz with a 150mv undervolt and the temps haven't been an issue since.
 
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David010203

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Hi The_Scotster, thanks a lot for the reply. I don't have GTA V at the moment. I'm quite new to all this undervolting thing. What programs would you suggest I'd use in order to do it properly like you've done it. I've seen some CPU voltage settings in the CPU Memory Overclock tool that came preinstalled. Also what is your opinion on the Control Center that comes preinstalled?
 
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Scott

Behold The Ford Mondeo
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David010203 said:
Hi The_Scotster, thanks a lot for the reply. I don't have GTA V at the moment. I'm quite new to all this undervolting thing. What programs would you suggest I'd use in order to do it properly like you've done it. I've seen some CPU voltage settings in the CPU Memory Overclock tool that came preinstalled. Also what is your opinion on the Control Center that comes preinstalled?
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The standard control centre works just fine. You can make adjustments via the BIOS also but unfortunately undervolting isn't an option in there at the moment. I would set the voltage offset to -150mv and see how it runs, check the temps etc. If everything runs OK, try -160... then -170, etc until you find stability being compromised by the voltage. When you get to that point simply reduce the undervolt by 10 and that's it done.

I would be surprised if you didn't manage at least -200mv at the stock speeds.
 
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David010203

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The_Scotster said:
The standard control centre works just fine. You can make adjustments via the BIOS also but unfortunately undervolting isn't an option in there at the moment. I would set the voltage offset to -150mv and see how it runs, check the temps etc. If everything runs OK, try -160... then -170, etc until you find stability being compromised by the voltage. When you get to that point simply reduce the undervolt by 10 and that's it done.

I would be surprised if you didn't manage at least -200mv at the stock speeds.
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So I've been using the standard control centre on the *BALANCED* preset. CPU is set to default settings. I've tried the -150mv offset but ended up with blue,green and purple artifacts on my screen and the laptop shut down and restarted itself. I'm currently back at the balanced preset, playing The Witcher 3; The GPU temperature is 82 Celsius and the CPU is 87-90( Quite high I think :/ ). I'm also quite confused about fan speeds, I'm setting them on automatic, but I really feel they should run a bit faster. I don't really want to keep them on *maximum* the whole time i'm in game. I might get into the BIOS to check the fan curve and see if I can manually set the speeds.
Basically, I'm not sure if I'm overreacting about temperatures or it's normal to be like this haha. I think your review is also playing a big part ( I'm thinking about the poor paste job ).

I look forward to your reply,
Cheers!
 
Scott

Scott

Behold The Ford Mondeo
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I'm really surprised by that. You must have been really unlucky in the silicone lottery. I take it you haven't overclocked at all? It's completely stock?

This is how I run at stock....

Control Centre set to "Performance" (Balanced is pointless on this laptop IMO. It nets you about 10 minutes)
Click "System Program" then select "Overclock" next to "FAN SPEED". I haven't found any proper fan curve options but overclock is pretty good IMO.
Click the "GAMING" tab then click "CPU MEMORY OVERCLOCKING" to open up the overclocking utility
Click "CPU" tab then click "Default" and then "Save"
Change the "Adaptive" slider to -150mv then click "Save"

If that isn't stable then try dropping it to -140mv etc until it is stable.

I'm still really curious about this though as every forum I frequent regarding these laptops sees just about everyone hitting -200mv on the undervolt. Coloured artefacts on the screen is strange in itself as that's normally related to the GPU.

Report back on how you get on :)
 
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David010203

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The_Scotster said:
I'm really surprised by that. You must have been really unlucky in the silicone lottery. I take it you haven't overclocked at all? It's completely stock?

This is how I run at stock....

Control Centre set to "Performance" (Balanced is pointless on this laptop IMO. It nets you about 10 minutes)
Click "System Program" then select "Overclock" next to "FAN SPEED". I haven't found any proper fan curve options but overclock is pretty good IMO.
Click the "GAMING" tab then click "CPU MEMORY OVERCLOCKING" to open up the overclocking utility
Click "CPU" tab then click "Default" and then "Save"
Change the "Adaptive" slider to -150mv then click "Save"

If that isn't stable then try dropping it to -140mv etc until it is stable.

I'm still really curious about this though as every forum I frequent regarding these laptops sees just about everyone hitting -200mv on the undervolt. Coloured artefacts on the screen is strange in itself as that's normally related to the GPU.

Report back on how you get on :)
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Okay so this is what I've done yesterday evening.
Control Centre set to Performance, CPU Memory Overclocking set to default. Dropped the slider to -150mv. Set the fan profile to Overclocking.
Fans currently running at around 3200RPM (is it a good speed to run constantly?) It also adapts nicely to the load it's put against.
Idle temperature of about 40C-42C.
Tested in The Elder Scrolls Online for 3 hours, the game is quite CPU intensive...probably bad optimisation on the developers side. CPU temperature was around 64C and GPU was 54C. No system instability whatsoever.
Tested in DOOM, CPU temperature was 60C and GPU 60C. Only tested for 15 minutes of shooting up demons.
Tested in The Witcher 3, CPU temperature was 65C and GPU was 70C. Only tested for about 15 minutes and it ran with no problem, will play some more tonight as well and see how it performs. Hopefully no weird stuff is going to happen haha.
I'm running all these games on ultra quality as well.

What do you think of the performance? Thanks again for all the help so far :D
 
Scott

Scott

Behold The Ford Mondeo
Moderator
David010203 said:
Okay so this is what I've done yesterday evening.
Control Centre set to Performance, CPU Memory Overclocking set to default. Dropped the slider to -150mv. Set the fan profile to Overclocking.
Fans currently running at around 3200RPM (is it a good speed to run constantly?) It also adapts nicely to the load it's put against.
Idle temperature of about 40C-42C.
Tested in The Elder Scrolls Online for 3 hours, the game is quite CPU intensive...probably bad optimisation on the developers side. CPU temperature was around 64C and GPU was 54C. No system instability whatsoever.
Tested in DOOM, CPU temperature was 60C and GPU 60C. Only tested for 15 minutes of shooting up demons.
Tested in The Witcher 3, CPU temperature was 65C and GPU was 70C. Only tested for about 15 minutes and it ran with no problem, will play some more tonight as well and see how it performs. Hopefully no weird stuff is going to happen haha.
I'm running all these games on ultra quality as well.

What do you think of the performance? Thanks again for all the help so far :D
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All of that is absolutely ideal. I would suggest that 85°C on both the CPU and GPU would be the upper limit of daily running. It's probably ok to spike around 90°C on either for a brief period but I wouldn't want to run at that. I saw 95°C playing GTA V with some crazy settings selected (Maximum everything, way past the default "Ultra") but I tuned that out with some good paste and an undervolt. Maximising in or around 70°C is absolutely ideal for this laptop, I would go as far as to say that anything under 80 is great when pushing it.

I wouldn't worry about the fans by the way. They're heavy duty fans designed to run for a LONG time. Even if they give up on you a few years down the line they are straight forward enough to replace.
 
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David010203

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The_Scotster said:
All of that is absolutely ideal. I would suggest that 85°C on both the CPU and GPU would be the upper limit of daily running. It's probably ok to spike around 90°C on either for a brief period but I wouldn't want to run at that. I saw 95°C playing GTA V with some crazy settings selected (Maximum everything, way past the default "Ultra") but I tuned that out with some good paste and an undervolt. Maximising in or around 70°C is absolutely ideal for this laptop, I would go as far as to say that anything under 80 is great when pushing it.

I wouldn't worry about the fans by the way. They're heavy duty fans designed to run for a LONG time. Even if they give up on you a few years down the line they are straight forward enough to replace.
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Phew...Hearing this really made my day better hahah! It seems that I don't really have any paste job problems then, does it? (Never opened up a laptop, but I will eventually give in to my curiosity :D) I'm looking forward to test it some more. Hopefully, you won't see anymore posts from me regarding cooling and temps with this laptop! :D You know how it is, we both really like these laptop beasts, spent quite a bit so we want them to last as long as possible and take best care of them. Glad to hear that about the fans, a few years of lifespan is actually really good, I won't be so paranoid about keeping them on the *overclocking* fan speed profile.

Thanks a bunch man!
 
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