are these temps ok for Far Cry 3?

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ive only been playing far cry 3 for around 10 minutes, no vsync on so about 80-100 frames, and CPU temp on HWINFO is already sitting at 65C when playing, it occasionally drops to 58C or so. when i touch the parts of the tower that have the pc air coming out of it, it feels pretty hot
 
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Go into bios, find the fan speed settings and turn them to performance or turbo. Go to windows-control panel-power and set it for performance, go to the advanced settings and browse through them for anything eco oriented and turn it off or disable, maxim cores = 4, performance = 100% etc.
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no, august 2015 my motherboard fried (lol) and then i had to get repairs, new thermalpaste and stuff and they gave me the new cooler for it too
 
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huh, so would you say my temps are well...safe? for far cry 3, so paranoid when im playing :C
 
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That top vent will be a mixture of cpu and gpu heat. As long as it's coming out of the case, you are good.

As to actual temps, that can be fixed slightly. 1, make sure the cooler is nice and tight to the cpu, sometimes a little too much paste is used and the cooler doesn't get close enough take for good transference. 2, even though it's relatively newly installed, make sure the fins are dusy/debris free. It's not uncommon for microfiber dust to go right through some intake dust filters. 3, adjust the fan curves. Many times the fan curve is set too high for the environment. Default max duty cycle is 70°C, so many curves are set (especially on silent mode) to take a very slow curve to almost 70 then shooting up from about 50% to max in the space of a few °C. Most consider anything under @70° to be acceptable temps, that includes Intel in general, as running a cpu at 65°or 45° is still inside safe temps then curves are set to keep a pc quiet, not cool as possible at all times. So set the fan curve for performance, or use the motherboard software or SpeedFan to tailor cpu and/or case fan curves to reflect your environment temps and needs.
 
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If it is not hotter than 65 it is definitely safe
 
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i already have the MSIAfterburner fan set to 65%
 
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aight, ill report back later on when i try it
 
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Msi Afterburner is just the gpu, so your card will have good airflow. That's got nothing to do with the cpu cooler. Everybody will agree that the cooler the air you supply to a heatsink, the more affective it is, so imagine your gpu is putting out some very warm air when gaming. That air is rising up past your cpu heatsink. The D92 is sacking in warm air, not cooler air like when you aren't pushing the gpu. So your D92 is running the fans slow, because the fan curve is low. But, that heated air is making the cooler less affective at cooling the cpu, so temps go up. When you push the gpu hard, you'll need a more aggressive fan curve on the cpu, making the fans spin faster at lower temps, which even though it's warm air, it only has to absorb a little heat before going out the exhaust, being constantly replaced by fresh air. With slower spinning fans, it takes longer to replace that one small section of air, so that air is forced to absorb more heat than it wants to, at a slower rate of absorption, so cpu temps go up.

Instead of 30% fan at 30° ~ 50% fan at 60° and max at 70°, run your CPU fan at 30%-30°~75%-50° and max at 60°. Your temps will drop. Furthermore, set system fans to 50% at 30°~max at 40° which will provide more cooler air into and out of the case, since case temps are really different to cpu or gpu temps. Honestly, case temps shouldn't be much higher than your ambient temp, just a few degrees at most.
 
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Go into bios, find the fan speed settings and turn them to performance or turbo. Go to windows-control panel-power and set it for performance, go to the advanced settings and browse through them for anything eco oriented and turn it off or disable, maxim cores = 4, performance = 100% etc.
 
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