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hi everyone, I'm running a i7 6700k water cooled with a arctic cooling water cooler. im idling at around 23-25c and under a heavy load I'm running at around 44-55c is this good? I'm guessing it is. the arctic cooler I'm using is the one with the bigger radiator and 4 120mm fans.
 
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The heat generated by an overclock is directly related to the vcore that is necessary to support that level of overclock.
Better binned chips can sustain a higher multiplier at a given vcore.

With a good cooler, either liquid or air in a well ventilated case, you should run out of a safe 1.4v vcore before you run into thermal limits.
A cpu will shut down or downclock when it reaches about 100c.
For the most part, if you stress test with an app oriented tester like OCCT(not prime95 or IBT) up to 85c. os ok.
Under normal use, you will not get to 85c.

One other thing you should do is implement speedstep and adaptive voltage.
That will reduce your multiplier and vcore when the cpu has little to do.
Again, cpu-Z will show this.
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weird I just ran unigen heaven benchmark and it was fine, then near the end, the temps started to fluctuate, erratic. it was going up to 65c, then afer I shut down the benchmark it took a while, a couple of minutes for the cpu to cool all the way down back to 24c. is this normal?
 
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People will post good benchmark scores, and not bad ones.
They will be from overclocked processors and graphics cards.

If you overclock, you can do better.
As of 12/04/2016
What percent can get an overclock at a somewhat sane 1.40v Vcore.

I7-6700K
4.9 5%
4.8 21%
4.7 64%
4.6 96%
 
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Sometimes automatic overclocks are too aggressive.
If yours is working, ok, then keep it.

If you use the simple bios settings you may do better.

CPU-Z will tell you what your multiplier is under load.
The key metric to watch is vcore which should not go much past 1.4v.
 
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The heat generated by an overclock is directly related to the vcore that is necessary to support that level of overclock.
Better binned chips can sustain a higher multiplier at a given vcore.

With a good cooler, either liquid or air in a well ventilated case, you should run out of a safe 1.4v vcore before you run into thermal limits.
A cpu will shut down or downclock when it reaches about 100c.
For the most part, if you stress test with an app oriented tester like OCCT(not prime95 or IBT) up to 85c. os ok.
Under normal use, you will not get to 85c.

One other thing you should do is implement speedstep and adaptive voltage.
That will reduce your multiplier and vcore when the cpu has little to do.
Again, cpu-Z will show this.
 
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