Is 74c a dangerous temperature for an i7?

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daynwsowulf

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Hello Toms's Hardware experts. Thanks for visiting my post.

I just recently bought an Intel Core i7, the 4790 one.

It's not overclocked or anything, everything is on factory defaults, one thing that Is bothering right now is the temps. When gaming it goes around 69c to 71c max I've seen so far. But when rendering I saw it reach 74c/73/72

It stays on 95% CPU usage and clock speed goes from 4009MHz to 3799MHz and doesn't go up.

Here's the screenshot from HWinfo when I'm about to finish rendering a video:
http://i.imgur.com/0s404nz.png

It's the stock cooler.

I worry because when I saw at ark.intel.com it show's that the tCASE max is 72c temp, does that mean that my CPU is overheating?
 
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Tºcore is usually 5ºC higher than Tºcase, so anything lower than 77ºC core is within Intel guidelines.

By the way, the CPU doesn't go to 4000MHz because of the TDP limit, not the thermal limit. If you want to tinker with the BIOS settings, perhaps you can lower the core voltage, so the lower power consumption allows a higher turbo speed.

1,08-1,15volts should be enough to mantain a stable 4GHz, some motherboards put an unnecessarily high stock voltage.
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Tºcore is usually 5ºC higher than Tºcase, so anything lower than 77ºC core is within Intel guidelines.

By the way, the CPU doesn't go to 4000MHz because of the TDP limit, not the thermal limit. If you want to tinker with the BIOS settings, perhaps you can lower the core voltage, so the lower power consumption allows a higher turbo speed.

1,08-1,15volts should be enough to mantain a stable 4GHz, some motherboards put an unnecessarily high stock voltage.
 
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daynwsowulf

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Thanks everyone for the answer. And thanks Bencenum, lowering the voltage has decreased the average temperature by a lot.
 
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Bencenum

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You are welcome.

Actually I think I made a mistake, the 4790 won't go to 4GHz with all cores active unless overclocked. But I'm glad to hear you have solved the main problem.
 
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