Quote Originally Posted by code_glitch View Post
Intel run hot. Very hot. This was blamed on north/south,xyz bridges and chipsets and then intel put them on die and it was the magic pixies' fault as to why a die shrunk, locked down Xeon runs hotter than anything seen before on a custom cooler is beyond me.
Well, at least in AMD FX 8150 that I've mentioned, the temperature increase is slow as you would expect, where the CPU case is heated first, then the room and so on. However, our Core i7 rigs have temperature spikes under load from 30-35C to 60C and then slowly increasing to 70C. I thought temperature transfer was a problem, but after touching headsink tubes - they are burning hot and can actually melt your fingers! The only OC I have is for RAM speed, but the difference between my rig and my partner's is only a couple of degrees. There is a funny thing out of this: when it's cold, I'm using CPU stress test to turn workstation into room heater.