Intel core i7 temp is reaching 85° C on load.

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darkstar845

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I am trying to overclock my Core i7 930 to 4.1 Ghz using 1.34 vcore and 1.325 qpi voltage.

I am using a Coolermaster Hyper 212+ heatsink and Antec 902 case, and I placed the case infront of an airconditioning unit with the intake fans sucking cold air from the airconditioning unit.

The cpu temp at idle was about 45° C but when I run prime95 (Blend test) the cpu temp reached about 83-85° C which is almost double the idle temperature.



Is that normal for the CPU to reach a temp that high?
 
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Yep, very normal for an i7 running at 4.1 Ghz with a 212+.

The only way you can run that high with decent temps is to get a high end (NH-D14 or Megahalems w/high CFM fans,etc.) cooler or go water.
 
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As far as I know, anything over 75C for more then short periods of time is not good for the well being of your CPU. With the cooling system you have at the moment then I would say that you could probably manage an overclock of 3.8GHz with a lower temp.

also remember that virtually ALL programs (except prime95 and ther benchmarks) and games are never gonna reach 100% CPU usage for long steady periods of time. i.e I play Battlefield: Bad Company 2, everything maxed out and only some of the cores are randomly used, the usage bars for each core jump up and down between 0 and no more then 78%. Temps for CPU are only about 67C under load. (but this is UK and currently having a cool patch)

I'm, using an i7 920 @ 2.99GHz, (i will be taking this upto 3.6GHz or maybe 3.8GHz when I get my coolmaster v6gt tomorrow!!!)

I can also certainly recommend water cooling. I used a Kandalf case, which has 3x120mm radiators, each with a fan, of which 2 i swapped out for Apache fans. on my old e6850, i over clocked from 3GHz to 3.6GHz and temps for CPU stayed at around 48C on full load. My main problem with over clocking more was that the RAM would overheat.
 
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It's an Intel X58SO Smackover motherboard. Do you think that I would get a better overclock if I switch to better motherboard like Asus P6X58D-E or MSI Big Bang-XPower? (I am not going to buy a new motherboard anytime soon, just curious)
 
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I would reduce the overclock if I were you, running the processor at those temperatures will dramatically reduce its life expectancy. I would aim for temperature of no more than 60 degrees on full load but to achieve this you would have to have water cooling or reduce the clock rate by a little bit.
 
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