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Hey,
My new i7 4770 reached temperatures of about 80 C (176 F) while playing Battlefield 4 today, should I be worried? What can I do to lower it?
Thanks!
I agree 100% with Eduello, those are all great tips.
Also, things you can do to lower it aside from those mentioned, are you overclocking?
-If you are, you should lower your overclock.
-You can try adding case fans if you don't already have them.
-You can try moving around your current case fans to a more "optimal" situation (More intakes, less exhausts for example)
-Get a CPU air cooler (Like a Hyper 212, air coolers are just ones that use metal & fans to cool your CPU)
-Get a water cooler, closed loop (Like the Corsair H80i, 100i, etc, or The NZXT Krakens, etc)
There are many ways of cooling, you should also worry about other components too, GPU's, HDD's, MoBo's, they all can get hot, and function better when cool, so keep an eye out.
If you need programs to monitor your temps try some of these (Google search them, but BE CAREFUL when downloading things from the internet, and be weary of add-ons that some apps install without your knowlegde):
-Crystal Disk Info (for HDD monitoring, this one installs a crappy search tool with it, I would suggest doing a custom install with this one)
-GPU-ID (for GPU monitoring, made by TechPowerup)
-MSI Afterburner (great program, used for GPU monitoring, as well as overclocking, can be used to actively test your GPU fans)
-CPU-Z (made by CPUID, used for CPU, RAM, Mobo, etc, speed monitoring)
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