i5 3570k is 75c bad?

Storx

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I recently bought a 4k monitor and since then i have noticed that my computer runs way hotter overall due to the pure amount of heat coming out of the area of the PC. I have been running this i5 with the h50 water cooler for about 3 years now, im not sure what temps to expect while gaming, but just wanted to ask the community. Was thinking maybe the cooler has gone bad... just dont know how to tell when a all in one cooler goes bad.

I am not sure really if my pc case really would work well with watercooling, i feel that its more designed for air cooling since i have 4 x 200mm fans on the computer, i have one on the door, one on the front, and 2 on the top pulling air out of the case..i feel way more heat coming off the single h50 fan and the back of the gpu over the exhaust fans on the top of the case, they barely ever go over 700rpms it seems
 

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Well with a 4k monitor, if you are playing games in higher res now, your hardware will be taxed more. Which is leading to higher temps in your cpu and gpu. The heat from each of them can affect one another as well. 75 C isn't the best it could be, but you are still in safe margins. I'd replace the thermal paste on the CPU and see how much of a difference that makes. If that doesn't change anything then it may be in time for a new cooler.
 

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Im thinking my AiO is at the peak of its life possibly, someone mentioned to adjust fan curves in afterburner, so while playing with it, i found that during gaming the CPU fan on the AiO is pegged to its max rpms under automatic control, i didnt know this previously as the fan was not really audible to me really, i mean i heard fans ramp up, but assumed it was the GPU fans. After playing with the GPU fans, boy are they audible at higher fan speeds