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makeandbakeasandwich,

Here's the recommended operating range for Core temperature:

80C Hot (100% Load)
75C Warm
70C Warm (Heavy Load)
60C Norm
50C Norm (Medium Load)
40C Norm
30C Cool (Idle)
25C Cool

Core temperatures in the mid 70's are safe, so just keep it under 80.

Please read this Sticky: Intel Temperature Guide - http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1800828/intel-temperature-guide.html

Pay close attention to Section 13; Thermal Testing @ 100% Workload.

drkatz42,

When you recommend Prime95, please be more specific. In case you didn't know, any versions of Prime95...
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Unless you do something real stupid, nothing will "fry" your CPU, if it starts overheating it will either throttle down or turn off. That's sure sign it's no good cooling wise. Any SW that loads CPU (and other components) to the max and keep it there for some amount of time would do.
Here's few you can use http://en.lo4d.com/s/wprime-vs-prime95 but nothing beats running your most "heavy" SW and follow temps. That's only thing that counts.
 
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makeandbakeasandwich,

Here's the recommended operating range for Core temperature:

80C Hot (100% Load)
75C Warm
70C Warm (Heavy Load)
60C Norm
50C Norm (Medium Load)
40C Norm
30C Cool (Idle)
25C Cool

Core temperatures in the mid 70's are safe, so just keep it under 80.

Please read this Sticky: Intel Temperature Guide - http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1800828/intel-temperature-guide.html

Pay close attention to Section 13; Thermal Testing @ 100% Workload.

drkatz42,

When you recommend Prime95, please be more specific. In case you didn't know, any versions of Prime95 later than 26.6 should NOT be used. Here's why:

Core i 2nd through 6th Generation CPU's have AVX (Advanced Vector Extension) instruction sets. Recent versions of Prime95, such as 28.9, run AVX code on the Floating Point Unit (FPU) math coprocessor, which produces unrealistically high temperatures. The FPU test in the utility AIDA64 shows similar results.

Prime95 v26.6 produces temperatures on 3rd through 6th Generation processors more consistent with 2nd Generation, which also have AVX instructions, but do not suffer from thermal extremes due to having a soldered Integrated Heat Spreader and a significantly larger Die.

Download Prime95 version 26.6 - http://windows-downloads-center.blogspot.com/2011/04/prime95-266.html

Run only Small FFT’s, because it's a steady workload with steady temperatures. 10 minutes is plenty of time.

Use Core Temp to measure your temperatures - http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp

Your Core temperatures will test 10 to 20C lower with v26.6 than with v28.9.

CT :sol:
 
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