Core i7 6700K Baseline Test
Testing The Cooler
Time to test. Today's tested cooler will work absolutely great with any processor from low to high-end (Core i3/Core i5/Core i7 quad-core and even six- and eight core) at default operating frequencies, of course there's plenty room left for overclocking as well.
Please read: This system is based on a Core i7 6700K, all other results listed in the charts are a Core i7 4790K (our normal test cooling platform). Though the two are fairly close to each other in heat levels they cannot be compared as such. So we inserted the results into a chart for positioning only.
Core i7 6700K Devils Canyon baseline IDLE Temperatures
Let's have a look at the results for the system in its default non-overclocked state. Below, the IDLE temperatures, thus your processor is doing barely anything to nothing. Just sitting and waiting in your system.
If you have a look at the chart above you can see the processor LOAD temperatures (in the non-overclocked state). We measure in a 21 Degrees C ambient room temperature. Ambient temperatures do affect the cooling performance, albeit a little bit. We note down the hottest measured CPU package temperature.
Guru3D's Rule Of Thumb On CPU Load VS Cooling Temps:
- Anything up-to to roughly 50 Degrees C or lower we consider enthusiast class cooling
- Anything in-between 51 to 60 Degrees C we consider performance cooling
- Anything in-between 61 to 70 Degrees C we consider mainstream cooling
- Anything above 71 Degrees C we consider average cooling
This is considered seriously good cooling versus this processor. For testing we gave the liquid cooling setup a warm-up period of half an hour, then we run three Prime runs, we note down the hottest peak temperature of the package sensor. The average temperature with liquid cooling is normally lower.
