- Dec 4, 2013
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Hello, I have an Intel i7 4770 Haswell CPU and I use the stock heatsink/fan (I know it's rubbish but it "should" be "good enough" since I don't overclock or anything like that...but I do like gaming). Now, on idle, my BIOS reports that my temperatures are in the 50s Degrees Celsius. Core Temp, however, reports that my temperatures are in the mid 20s to 30s. When gaming, though, Core Temp reports that my temperatures are in the mid 60s to early 70s (sometimes peaking into the mid-late 70s with 80 Degrees Celsius being the highest I've seen to date...but it only peaks at those high temperatures during, say, explosions and fighting scenes of graphical intensive games on high-max settings for example Assassin's Creed Black Flag). Usually the temperatures are between 65 Degrees Celsius and 75 Degrees Celsius when gaming according to Core Temp. Now, my TCase Max Temperature is 72.72 Degrees Celsius whereas my TJunction Max temperature is 100 Degrees Celsius. Now my understanding is that Core Temp reports temperatures based on TJunction so, technically speaking, 70-80 Degrees is 20-30 Degrees below maximum. I've also read that TCase temperatures are anywhere between 5 and 15 Degrees Celsius COOLER than the TJunction temperatures but I can find no official information to back this. Would anyone be able to help me understand how TCase is calculated? I posted another topic on Toms Hardware yesterday where I was told 75 Degrees was perfectly acceptable for Haswell gaming and that was by someone who had the CPU badge. So if 75 Degrees TJunction is acceptable when TCase Max is 72.72 Degrees then I'm guessing TJunction and TCase are not one and the same. As a n00b in such fields I'm naturally a little confused. 
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