fighteeer :
Hi guys, so i have my i7 for a few weeks now, and i don't know if my temperatures are dangerous or not.
CPU IDLE : 42-53 °C
CPU PLAYING GAMES : 59-72 °C
CPU PLAYING CS:GO : 65-75 °C
I use Zalman CNPS7X LED. Should i buy better ? and which ? about 40€ ?
I have the same cpu with CM Hyper Evo. I don't know Zalman's cooler compared to mine but your cpu looks a bit hot. Nothing to worry about though. It's still around the Intel's recommended range (TCase 72.72C)
Ambient temps and the airflow in the case are important here. I've never seen a thermal compound effects the temperatures more than 2-3C if you don't apply it wrong in the first place. But you'd like to squeeze what you can get, so you can try some high quality thermal compounds too.
I'm currently idling around 26-28C and max of 52-53C while playing BF4. Under some stress tests it's hitting 60C and avaragin around 58-59C (ambient temp in my room is usually around 25C btw)
The thing is I was having +5-7C higher temperatures under load before adding two 120mm exhaust fans to the top of the case. They are running at 800rpm until cpu reaches 50C then I set them to speed up to 1200-1300rpm. It really helped a lot, even gpu is running 3-5C cooler now. And the power phases... They run more than 10C cooler now.
Also having Turbo Boost on is adding a bit more vcore then you'd actually need under load. I have it on too for all cores at the moment. But when I manually overclock to 4.2 GHz it runs almost at the same temp. So turbo boost is not really efficient way to keep a cpu cool. Maybe you can try disabling the setting that boost all cores to 3.9GHz (then they will boost to 3.7GHz) and see if that helps (probably it will since it will use less vcore under load this time).
But at the end of the day; consider increasing the airflow of your case first before changing the cpu cooler. If you are not satisfied with it you can buy a better cpu cooler.