CPU reaching 90C in Crysis 3 and BF4

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I recently built a system with a Xeon E3 1245 v3 (4770 equivalent) processor. My motherboard is a Gigabyte H87M-D3H. I was running on stock Intel cooler but temperatures were reaching 95-97C while playing Crysis 3. I read a lot about what might be the cause and concluded that maybe I didn't seat it well enough. Since I didn't have ready access to good thermal paste, I bought a Cooler Master DP6-EDSA cooler which has a slightly larger heat sink than the stock cooler and thermal paste pre-applied. This time I'm confident that the cooler installation is perfect. Yet, I'm seeing temperatures of 82 to 85 or 87 while stress testing on prime95 in blend mode, Intel Burn Test on standard and Intel Diagnostic Test and the CPU usage is 100%. But while gaming, in Crysis 3 and BF4 the temperatures are reaching or just crossing 90C with only about 50% CPU usage.
I was actually under the impression that stock cooler would be sufficient for Intel without overclock. I feel the temperatures are way too high.
My case is a Cooler Master K350 and the Hyper 212 evo is 1 cm taller than the recommended maximum height for my cabinet. I looked into TX3 but am not able to get hold of one right now from what I have access to. The airflow in my case should be pretty good as I used up all the fan slots (4 fans in all) and set them up with 120mm CM Silent fans according to the airflow diagram of the case. Can someone please solve my problem. This is getting too frustrating. Thanks in advance. :)
 
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I understand that it is a standard cooler, but it is at least as good as the stock cooler i believe(?) It is rated for up to 95W TDP processors(not that that has any weight here). Thanks.
Problem is the stock cooler should have been sufficient for non overclock usage. And why am I getting lower temperatures in stress tests with 100% usage than in games with 50% usage?. I really hope I can get to the end of this -_- One of the chief reasons I chose Intel over a 8350 was that i wouldn't need a separate cooler. Anyway that doesn't matter now

 
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Any chance that the CPU fan controler on the motherboard is not working like it should? Is the CPU fan spinning like crazy? R you 100% the cooler is seating right on the CPU (Ive used the twist procedure for my CPU coolers. That is to push down on the cooler when they are seated and firmly screwed in and twist it ever so slightly left and right so the thermal paste should spred more and the cooler would be more likely to be touching the CPU)....
 
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The stock cooler responded properly to load. The cooler master cooler I'm using now is a 3 pin one and hence is at full speed at all times. Because of that I actually had my idle temps drop to 37-38 from 41-45 before. Also I'm sure that this time everything is properly seated and the contact is good.

 
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Even if it is reaching 95-97C? :-O I mean is it safe for longer use? Anyway what options do I have to achieve safer/more normal temperatures? As i said Hyper 212 evo is 1cm taller and may touch the side panel and TX3 is not available where I'm right now. I wont have access to Thermalright True Spirit 120M. The maximum I want to spend would be the price of a 212 evo. (rant: I was under the impression from opinions around the web that the stock cooler is sufficient to have comfortable temps on non overclocking CPUs).

 
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well how is your case ventilation?
 
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I have a Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC. It has 3 fans and vents from the top i suppose, so into the case rather than out. The GPU temps never cross 72-75C even at extreme gaming. I hope those temps are fine. And the fans- I have inlet fans on the front, side and bottom and an outlet fan at the back and a heat vent on the top(without a fan)
 
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It should be well enough I suppose. I have inlet fans on the front, side and bottom and an outlet fan at the back and a heat vent on the top(without a fan). All are 120mm CM Silent fans.

 
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Ooooof! r9 290's run warm. Running that gpu in your case is probably running up the ambient temps massively. No wonder the cpu is reaching such high temps. You're trying to cool a hot cpu with air that's probably in the 60-70*C range. It doesn't have a chance. That heat from the gpu needs to go and 1 120mm rear fan and a semi-useless vent isn't helping. You need to see if you can slap a fan on that vent. Take your bottom inlet and retask it as exhaust up top, even if you have to tap 4 new holes to mount the fan. Then see what your cpu temps run at.

I've personally removed the expansion slot covers on a friends case and used that hole as a fan exhaust for his over-sized gpu. Its a little more of an extreme case mod but what the hey.. I'm currently using a circular saw slide ruler as a gpu support hah.
 
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Hello, The biggest question here is, are you expieriencing system instability? laggy system? random shutdowns? , when your temps reach over 80C ?
 
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Nothing that I have noticed. Except maybe Crysis 3 drops some frames in peak gameplay sometimes with explosions and all but i think it is because of the game itself rather than the temperature. No shutdowns.

 
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probably bad temp sensors,, touch your heatsink while system is underload to feel if its actually that hot, if its 80C then heatsink would be very hot, if its cold that could mean the heatsink doesnt have enough force on te CPU to conduct the heat, if its just warm then I doubt its 80C, your system would have done a thermal shutdown (if you have it set in your BIOS to shutdown at a certain temp) so if your not experiencing shutdows I also belive thermal sensors are bad with that reading
 
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Removing the side panel doesn't seem to do much regarding the temps either :-/ Anyway, the fans I'm using are these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103052
 
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Removing the side panel doesn't seem to do much regarding the temps either :-/ Anyway, the fans I'm using are these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103052
 
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Ok, couple things. There was thermal paste on the cooler? And the cooler was secured correctly? And if pre-applied paste, the plastic was removed? If you-applied, was it done correctly? Is the cooler seated and tightened correctly?

While I agree there could be the possibility of a bad sensor, I'm struggling with the idea that realtemp/coretemp would have all bad sensor readings. It's a good idea suggested to physically verify the tower temp.

When you removed the side panel, did you run a game and recheck the temps? Did you try using a fan blowing directly into the case (small box fan ora small desk fan)?
 
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