Put the stock cooler to absolute shame, and will be much quieter. They are great, especially for the price. I must have 10+ of them between my rigs, parents PC's friends etc.
If you do end up going to new CPU cooler route, which for the money isn't a bad idea even if you do get temps under control on stock cooling, +1 to hyper 212 Evo.
I have seen OS based reporting software report false data, but that was also under Windows and Mac environments. I would look at idle temps, and then compare them to BIOS idle temps. Literally, I don't think at stock speed and volts that CPU could even produce that much heat even if it was the worst piece of silicon Intel has ever shipped. If all the pins on the CPU cooler are pushed in and mounted correctly as I believe you stated it is, something has to be wrong. I have had many desktop class CPU's and overclock all of them, even pushed to hell and back I have never seen 100C, not even in my old school i7 920 WHACKLOAD of volts and 4.4 ghz. But since I am also a noob to freenas, I'll let them help get the software sorted.Īs far as hardware, and temps, yea that is totally crazy. I did read most of this, and this is very strange. 65 to 70C should be attainable but if you are in a hot room already, well you get my point. But use a CPU stress test which will max out the CPU and you should be able to keep it from hitting thermal shutdown. No matter what Plex is doing there must be an issue with either your mounting of the CPU, CPU Heatsink, thermal paste (remember, you cannot reuse it, you will have voids which will not allow heat to transfer and even though some folks think it's not a big deal, well actually it is a big deal), maybe the CPU is faulty internally and isn't transferring the heat properly. Are we sure that your implementation of Plex isn't messed up?Ĥ) Now back to the CPU issue, I would recommend running The UBCD or some other CPU stress test, not running on your FreeNAS installation and to see how it holds up. Please describe how you have it installed and the settings and movie formats, etc. I am requesting a little more information so I am clear on a few things.ġ) What is the CPU temperature reported when idle and explain what jails are running?Ģ) What is the ambient temperature in the room where the computer is located and ensure you leave the side panel off while testing, this give everyone a good idea that the CPU isn't being starved for cool air.ģ) Lets discuss Plex a little.