I DID IT! - I tamed my i7-14700K


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  • Cooler Master MasterBox NR200P Max (using mesh panel, not glass)
  • ASRock Z790 PG-ITX/TB4 (BIOS v1.14)
  • Intel Core i7-14700K (with Microcode 129 update)
  • 32GB TeamForce Delta RGB DDR5 7600MT/s (our review)
  • Gigabyte 7800XT (our review)
  • 2x be quiet! Silent Wings Pro 4 140mm PWM (replaced stock AIO fans)
  • 2x Noctua NF-A12x15 PWM bottom fans
  • Kingston Fury Renegade SSD

Long story short. I switched from Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut to Kryosheet and I flipped the radiator fan to intake. I also set the bottom Noctua 120mm slimfans to exhaust and moved them up as far as they would go to the front of the case, and the result is the above image in Cinebench, not going over 91C and 1935 points after a 10+ min stress test.

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I also did a lot of cable management, such as threading the fan cables through to behind the front panel.

It now idles at around 28C.

Oh, before testing I ran the Intel diagnostic tool to check if my CPU got damaged before the Microcode 129 update

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I am quite happy with this!

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Hello,

So, just to make sure I understand, the case fans are now oriented so that air is brought in through the top and exhausted as the bottom, and that this is the opposite of the previous orientation, is that correct?  What were the thermals like with the prior configuration?

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky
 

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On 10/09/2024 at 00:06, goretsky said:

So, just to make sure I understand, the case fans are now oriented so that air is brought in through the top and exhausted as the bottom, and that this is the opposite of the previous orientation, is that correct?  What were the thermals like with the prior configuration?

Yep, these are the results with default stock fan config, but also before Microcode 125 and 129.

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This was typical in most benchmarks (thermal throttling). I think I was only able to avoid it with lowering ICCMAX values, with the help of @hellowalkmanwe tried a bunch of different things.

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