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Is it normal for 13th gen to have big variance of up to 8c between each package in performance cores?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! Just variance in IHS / cooler contact then I guess. Do you happen to know if there's any way to get more even temps?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If reapplying thermal paste and verifying the heatsink pushes down on the IHS evenly doesn't help then I suppose what might help is a delid, clean the die, grind down the IHS sides (to reduce the gap between the die and the IHS), apply liquid metal and reseat the IHS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Have you delidded your CPU?

Having done multiple re-seatings and pastes I can confirm that it is currently as good as it will get. The paste spread is near perfect, which is why I am a bit confused here. It's the same cores regardless of cooler used.

Delidding is a bit outside my comfort zone, and I'm not sure if it's worth the risk for my use case. Not sure yet how heavy the CPU will be stressed during music / audio projects just yet, but I have a feeling it will get close to 100% by the end stage of big projects.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

not yet, maybe in 3 years :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just out of curiosity is it core 5 and 7 that are higher?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's a 13600K, core 4 and 6 are the ones that usually are higher.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Oh ok are 4 and 6 your favoured cores? I just say because I had a 13700k and core 5 and 7 were allways hotter. Then I got a 14900k and same again 5 and 7 hotter both by like 7c or so . But what I noticed is core 5 and 7 are the two favored cores on both my cpus. And even in multi core workloads those two allways get hotter. I think because they are the favourites they get work sent to them first and don't get as much of a break.

Not sure if there is a way you can disable favoured cores I haven't really looked into it yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

yup. up to 10c variance is pretty normal. however if its more than 15c variance its probably a mounting issue.