is my CPU over heating?

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Ok so I've just brought Warhammer TW (great game) and after a session on it I had a prompt in the desktop cpu temp was high 65c. so I turnned on the temperature monitor, played again for a while and the temp maxed out at 67c only for a few mins but useally was around 64c. I've have the game since release and not had the heating prompt before, although I noticed the AMD optimisation tool bumped up the settings to ultra from high, game ran great on both settings. Anyway what I'm asking is am OK to run the game at these temps or should I do something about it?

BTW were in a bit of a heatwave here but surely that can't make that much difference can it? and one final note I ran dota 2 on a mod game with loads mobs to test it and it ran a 55c. board temp was 31c on both tests.

my build if it helps:

fx8350
msi r9 390x
Cooler Master -Hyper 212 Evo
16g ram hyperx fury
Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0- AMD 970
case has x1 120 fan on side
x2 60 fans front and back

thanks for you thoughts and or help
 
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synphul
A heat wave will have an impact if it affects your ambient room temps, yes. If you have central air and the room closed up so it's staying 22-23c (or whatever your usual ambient room temps are) then the heatwave won't make much difference. Cpu cooling whether air cooler or closed loop liquid both rely on ambient air to dissipate heat. Warmer temps in the room will directly impact pc cooling, yes.

As mentioned 65c and the cpu is likely throttling (if temperature monitoring is correct, something amd has an issue with even using their own overdrive software since it uses a thermal algorithm rather than actually monitoring temps). In order to lower temps you may need a better cooler or a way to drop your room temps.
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65c is the point at which the FX 8XXX parts throttle. It won't damage the cpu, but it will drop the clocks, which will kill performance. I have an FX 8320 and once it hits 65, it drops from 3.5ghz to 1.4. So frustrating. The issue for me was the hot air was accumulating inside the case, so in the end I switched to a Cooler Master Seidon clc liquid cooler, where the fan ejects all the hot air out the back and it's been fine since.
 
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Well yeah, according to the user thread, the case is good for taking hot air from the inside, and pushing a cool air from the outside. So basically, hot temps can be caused of full-load and a bad heatsink btw.
 
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A heat wave will have an impact if it affects your ambient room temps, yes. If you have central air and the room closed up so it's staying 22-23c (or whatever your usual ambient room temps are) then the heatwave won't make much difference. Cpu cooling whether air cooler or closed loop liquid both rely on ambient air to dissipate heat. Warmer temps in the room will directly impact pc cooling, yes.

As mentioned 65c and the cpu is likely throttling (if temperature monitoring is correct, something amd has an issue with even using their own overdrive software since it uses a thermal algorithm rather than actually monitoring temps). In order to lower temps you may need a better cooler or a way to drop your room temps.
 
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