CPU at 80 Celsius while playing games?

Ryan_331

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Jun 3, 2017
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So I posted this yesterday:

"Hi!
So I just purchased a new computer, which is an iBuyPower. I previously built my computer, but had so many issues that I just wanted to try a manufacture built computer. This computer is water cooled (which I will soon get into later), and has an i7 7700k, GTX 1080, 16GB DDR4 RAM, and a bunch more but what really just worried me was I checked my CPU temp because my case felt pretty hot while playing Battlegrounds, and the temp was 158 degrees... My previous computer would never hit this high, I'm new to water cooling so I have no clue about it. When I first turned the computer on for the first boot I heard the water in it, but now I don't at all. Honestly don't know if this matters or not, but when I first booted it the water was moving around, and I turned the PC off because I just wanted to make sure my LED's I installed were working. Not sure if this made the water cooling defective or not, (like I said I'm quite new to water cooling). But for a game and a few things running in the background, I really don't think it should be running at 158 degrees... So my question is, is my water cooling defective? Is this normal? Are you supposed to hear water cooling? Thanks so much!"

Yesterday when I was playing, my CPU was at 155F, and now it is at 180F, playing the same game. Honestly quite worried because these are pretty high temps, is this normal still, or not?
 
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80C is quite warm/starting to get hot because you are on base clock. Kaby Lake is around 8C hotter than Skylake running at same voltage, so I think your mobo is overvolting it. What's it's running at? VCore should be at least under 1.3V at stock clock.

BigBoomBoom

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80C is quite warm/starting to get hot because you are on base clock. Kaby Lake is around 8C hotter than Skylake running at same voltage, so I think your mobo is overvolting it. What's it's running at? VCore should be at least under 1.3V at stock clock.
 
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