I have high CPU temperatures FX 8350 at 70 Cº max?

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Hi I recently got my new motherboard and processor (stock speed), but I'm a little worried about these temps I'm getting, after an hour of playing Battlefield 3, I check the temps and it says that the maximum is 70 Cº and on Idle I get around 50 Cº.

When I got the CPU I replaced the thermal paste for Arctic silver 5, I have the stock cooler (I'll get an H100i later) maybe I didn't apply it properly?

The room temperature is around 23 Cº and I have the Thermaltake Urban S71 With the stock 200mm fans, one in the front for intake and another one on the top for exhaust and one 120mm on the back for exhaust. Also my pc is well ventilated, it's 20 cm left from my desk and around 40 cm from the wall.

I think the temps shouldn't exceed 65 Cº right?

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I'm in a very similar boat as you OP, got my processor recently and my temperatures climb pretty rapidly, reached 64 after a short prime95 then stopped it before it went further as I read that 62 C was about the max safe temp for the cores. There was a 10+ page thread on OC dot net about the safe temps for the 8350, with 95% of the people saying 62 is max for the cores.

I never installed it with the stock paste, only used prolimatech pk1. At first I thought maybe it was a bad application, but then today I reapplied paste using the dot method which I have used several times before.

I'm open to suggestions because i'm pretty lost and frustrated, even overclockers are claiming they try to never pass 62 Celsius, this was also what an AMD...
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I'm in a very similar boat as you OP, got my processor recently and my temperatures climb pretty rapidly, reached 64 after a short prime95 then stopped it before it went further as I read that 62 C was about the max safe temp for the cores. There was a 10+ page thread on OC dot net about the safe temps for the 8350, with 95% of the people saying 62 is max for the cores.

I never installed it with the stock paste, only used prolimatech pk1. At first I thought maybe it was a bad application, but then today I reapplied paste using the dot method which I have used several times before.

I'm open to suggestions because i'm pretty lost and frustrated, even overclockers are claiming they try to never pass 62 Celsius, this was also what an AMD rep officially claimed
 
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what's your motherboard?
also a side intake fan is important but it seems your case doesn't have mounting for a side fan, try changing the rear fan to intake, see if that helps in decreasing the temps
 
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Thanks, I'll try that, my motherboard is the Crosshair V Formula-Z 990fx
 
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To update, I ordered a new CPU cooler, and in the mean time I enabled Asus' EPU (power saving) in the bios which automatically reduced my CPU voltages which led to lower temp under load (7 or so less than the max core temp of 62).

Going to run it until I get my new cooler.
 
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Anybody who says 62 is the max temp is badly misinformed. OP you are fine, you don't need that power saving thing, your temperatures are perfectly safe. Seriously. They're fine. A new cooler couldn't hurt, but it's not 100% necessary because your temperatures are completely 100% absolutely safe.
 
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Thanks for the help guys :) I should've said this earlier, but last week I got the H100i and I get 30 on idle and 40 under load :D really great cooler so far! I always run it on performance mode, but I guess I'm the kind of user that prefers a loud but cool PC
 
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