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Isuru Kanishka Weerawarna

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Hi,
I'm having high temps with my 4670K.
- without oc, temps tend to be around 38 Idle and 68-70 with prime 95.
- with oc, temps tend to be around 38 Idle and 73-75 with prime 95 @ 4GHz.
- ambient temp is 32 - 34
- using Hardware Monitor

* CPU: I5 4670k
* Cooler: Cooler Master D92 (one of the few air coolers the casing permits)
* Motherboard: MSI Z87 G43
* RAM: HyperX Fury 8G(2x4G) DDR3 1866Mhz (CL10)
* VGA: Sapphire R9 280
* Case: Corsair Carbide 100R Windowed
* Boot Disk: Intel SSD 530 120GB
* Seagate SATA3 1TB 7200RPM 64mb Cache
* Power Supply: Rexcool 600W
* Windows 10 Pro 64bit
* 5 x Cooler Master 120mm Casing fans

1. Are the temperatures normal ?
2.If not what should be done to get a higher overclock ?

Please help.
 
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I can assure you, 75C is fine for air running Prime95. Prime95 takes full 100% utilization of your CPU - games, or any other application will not necessarily do that, so you will expect lower temperatures doing other applications. Prime95 is a stress-testing program - it's designed to test stability, if you are not crashing and staying steady at 75C, don't even bother checking thermal paste or anything. I just gave you my temperatures on a 140mm closed-loop liquid cooling system on a 3570k overclocked higher than yours playing BF4 primarily. It's nothing to sweat about. 105C I believe is the thermal limit for Intel CPU's in which case they will shut off to prevent further damage to itself. You are well within thermal limits. If you were...
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75C with Prime95 on a air cooler is not abnormal. Temperatures where you should start to be concerned is 90C+ because that is reaching thermal limits of the processor itself before it shuts itself off for safety precautions. I personally wouldn't want to run my system much past 80C but that's just my personal preference. In terms of getting higher overclocks, better cooling systems are typically required, such as closed-loop liquid coolers. I'm running my 3570k @ 4.6GHz and getting around 75C when playing BF4, and the thermal material in the 3570k is garbage. I get 40C on idles with a H90 140mm liquid cooler.
 
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I can assure you, 75C is fine for air running Prime95. Prime95 takes full 100% utilization of your CPU - games, or any other application will not necessarily do that, so you will expect lower temperatures doing other applications. Prime95 is a stress-testing program - it's designed to test stability, if you are not crashing and staying steady at 75C, don't even bother checking thermal paste or anything. I just gave you my temperatures on a 140mm closed-loop liquid cooling system on a 3570k overclocked higher than yours playing BF4 primarily. It's nothing to sweat about. 105C I believe is the thermal limit for Intel CPU's in which case they will shut off to prevent further damage to itself. You are well within thermal limits. If you were hitting mid 80's-90's, I would say turn your overclock down if you had one, reapply thermal paste, check cooling fixation, etc. But you are fine where you are at now.
 
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Those aren't high temps, those are actually good air temps.

Above 80 is warm,
above 85 is warmer,
above, 90 is hot,
above 95 is very hot,
above 100 is burning,
above 105 is sahara without water

jk rowling
 
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