i7 4790k on Hero VII with stock cooler, temps high or normal?

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i just got my bundled 4790k and mobo today from microcenter. By the first it booted up, the bios temperatures were already at 50c. So i disabled turbo tech to hopefully reduce temp, but it still shows around 50-55c idle (constant 4.0 clock) with HWMonitor and sometimes temp fluctuates to atleast 60c when opening an application for a sec then goes back to 50c.. Also, i accidentally nudged and lift the heatsink a bit during installation. I have a used corsair h100 cooler but dont have any spare thermal paste. I have no idea if that temp is normal for intel cpu with stock cooler.
 
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That temp is definitely on the high side. What are the under load temp?

Have you tried setting the fan to run full speed to see if the temp decreases any?

Do you think you may have messed up the thermal paste application when you nudged the heatsink a bit? That is a possibility. Or even the thermal paste is faulty...who knows.

 
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You cannot damage the chip with just high temperatures; it'll throttle around 90C, and I believe will trigger a shutdown if you get up to 100 or 105, can't remember which. The only way you can cause actual damage to a modern Intel CPU is if you deliberately increase the stock voltage to a too-high value ( over ~1.4v) and THEN fail to keep it cool.
 
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What about the other two:

Have you tried setting the fan to run full speed to see if the temp decreases any?

Do you think you may have messed up the thermal paste application when you nudged the heatsink a bit? That is a possibility. Or even the thermal paste is faulty...who knows.

And did you remember to reconnect the CPU fan correctly?
 
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CPU cooler is running at full speed and plugged on the right cpu fan pin.. I think i kinda messed up the thermal paste a little. Ill try to get a new thermal paste tomorrow, any suggestions on what type should i get?
Is it normal that the cpu is running constantly at 4.0ghz even idle. Ive tried enabling and disabling speedstep but nothing changed.. My old fx 8350 underclocks itself when not being used generally
 
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I already figured out whats causing the temp problem. Its my power management that was set to high performance. It forces the cpu to run at max clockspeed at all times and produce more heat. The CPU is now idling at around 35-40c and 60-70c while playing
 
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Glad you got the issue resolved easy enough.
 
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Hi there friend, I've had same problem with my Hero 7 motherboard when I built the pc it showed me that the motherboards idle temps where 49/55c. So I changed my Corsair AX 760 power supply with an older one to test if the PSU was faulty and thus giving bad voltage, And you know what it was !. My new corsair AX 760 was screwing with my motherboard temps by 20-30c on just idle. Thankfully after changing my faulty AX 760 with a brand new one it fixed the temp problems. I dunno BUT MAYBE just MAYBE you could try testing your PSU when u have spare time just to check what happens to your motherboard temps. Sorry if this is irrelevant but its just my 2 cents.
 
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