PC too hot while gaming? CPU goes to 60-65C and GPU goes to 80C.

Xectaontwitch

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Before I say anything, here are my specs.

MSI Z87-G43 Motherboard
Intel Core i5 4670K 3.40GHz OC to 4GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB

So recently I've noticed in the more graphically intensive games such as the Battlefront Beta, that my PC starts to get a little hotter than it does with other games. As the title suggests, my CPU is averaging around the mid 60s or so, and my GPU stays at 80. I literally JUST cleaned my PC earlier today with compressed air, but it's still standing at about 80C. My room is always cooled with a fan, so I don't know why my GPU is getting so hot. But even with the GPU getting so hot, my CPU is really confusing me because I have it watercooled. The system is almost 2 years old, so maybe it's normal. But I really don't know. What do you guys think?
 
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Mid 60's c for an i5 isn't hot. Pretty good temps for gaming actually. It would help to know what your actual ambient room temps are, what case you have and what the fan setup is. 80c for the gpu is a bit warm but not ridiculously hot for a graphically intensive game either. The room being fan cooled could be 22c or 35c and will make a difference to overall system temps. Without knowing what gpu temps you were getting before to compare current temps to it's hard to say whether 80c is unreasonable or not for your system.
Mid 60's c for an i5 isn't hot. Pretty good temps for gaming actually. It would help to know what your actual ambient room temps are, what case you have and what the fan setup is. 80c for the gpu is a bit warm but not ridiculously hot for a graphically intensive game either. The room being fan cooled could be 22c or 35c and will make a difference to overall system temps. Without knowing what gpu temps you were getting before to compare current temps to it's hard to say whether 80c is unreasonable or not for your system.
 
Solution
neither of those temps would cause the graphics card or cpu to throttle, they are ok temps. Just make sure your case has adequate ventillation, a couple of 120mm intake (lower/front) and a couple 120mm exhaust fans (upper/rear) is a good start. You can also look at the fan profile, cpu fan speed is controlled in the motherboard bios, you can tweak the gpu fan speed with msi afterburner or similar. Obviously you need to consider if its worth increasing as noise will also increase.
 

bang9

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TMPIN3 from what I have read on net seems people are getting phantom temp readouts I do on fanspeed aux1/2/3 reading at 150-200c if that was the case id smell it burning I shouldn't worry to much about that mate