If I had to pick, I would trust HWMonitor more than I would Speedfan. HWMonitor does a much better job of identifying hardware than Speedfan, which makes me feel like the product is better.

Plus, it's a low-functionality version of a product you can pay money for.


If your board is ASUS, there's a few neat features in AI Suite I might suggest you try (and a number of features I recommend you annihilate, equal to the number of total features minus the aforementioned few). One of them is the Overclock Button, which will give you at least a reasonable start. The other is yet another source for CPU temperatures.

[QUOTE=kracker;365430]Meh, I'm confused. What do people use to check Haswell temps? Check difference.[/QUOTE]

Try CoreTemp at [url]http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/[/url].

I really like CoreTemp a lot. However, it freezes/BSOD's on both my haswell's and none else. :sad:

EDIT: Well SCREW that I rebooted this haswell and it works... not on the other one, though.

:razz:

[QUOTE=kracker;365543]:razz:[/QUOTE]

Very nice. 4.2 GHz, ~1.2V, ~80C. Not too shabby as far as Haswell goes. Hyper 212 Evo is as far as I ever look for a heatsink, short of something more liquid.

... very nice except for the two failures in your stress test. I was wondering why you were showing us your 50% load temps. The maximum temperatures are probably legit though. George, what were your specs again? Did you ever get a stable Haswell?

[QUOTE=TheMawn;365596]George, what were your specs again? Did you ever get a stable Haswell?[/QUOTE]

Why two Haswells are at 4.0GHz, DDR3-2400. Temps are upper 70s on one, low 80s on the other.

My 2-3 BSODs a week went away when I removed Windows 8 and replaced it with Ubuntu.

[QUOTE=Prime95;365617]Why two Haswells are at 4.0GHz, DDR3-2400. Temps are upper 70s on one, low 80s on the other.

My 2-3 BSODs a week went away when I removed Windows 8 and replaced it with Ubuntu.[/QUOTE]

That's nice :smile: What voltages for 4.0 GHz?

[QUOTE=kracker;365620]That's nice :smile: What voltages for 4.0 GHz?[/QUOTE]

IIRC, its around 1.22V. I wasted a lot of time raising voltages trying to get Windows 8 stable. I haven't gone back to see how low I can go and have Ubuntu remain stable.

Settling for 4 GHz at 1.18V... diminished returns from RAM bottleneck.

BTW have you run Memtest86+? Never discount the possibility of RAM being the culprit. Prime95 is essentially a RAM stress test if the RAM is the bottleneck.

Has anybody tried a system with Iris Pro/Crystal Well 128MB cache? Seems like it might have potential to keep everything in the cache - and even more so for smaller prime tests, probably.

Problem is systems with Iris Pro are hard to come by. Systems that are well cooled are harder still. But [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856164012]this Brix Pro[/url] looks interesting.