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Overclocked i7 3770k. Are these temps ok?

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  • Intel i7
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December 30, 2013 11:41:25 AM

I just overclocked my i7 to 4.0ghz (I know not a huge amount but I only have air cooling and I wanted to see the temps I would get).
On idle the average temperature was about 32-35c and when I ran prime95 for a few minutes one of the cores reached 67c max while the others were around 59-65. Are these ok?

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a b K Overclocking
December 30, 2013 1:31:07 PM

These are fine!

Anything under 70-75 is considered good. Once you hit 80 it might be a bit of a concern.
Run prime95 for an hour or so and then see the temperatures.
a b K Overclocking
December 30, 2013 2:26:32 PM

sounds about normal. just keep overclocking until you hit 80c and back down a notch. and use intel burn test at maximum stress level for voltage and temp testing. then use prime95 as a final stability test.
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December 30, 2013 4:03:38 PM

nikoli707 said:
sounds about normal. just keep overclocking until you hit 80c and back down a notch. and use intel burn test at maximum stress level for voltage and temp testing. then use prime95 as a final stability test.


Alright, thanks! I just wanted to make sure. I only reached about 45-50c in Battlefield 4 so that's good. The only thing is my GPU (EVGA GTX 670 FTW) is getting pretty hot. All the way up to 73 degrees.
a b K Overclocking
December 30, 2013 6:22:38 PM

Yea just to back them up, thats pretty good. I might have a bad application of thermal paste, but mine without a power increase hits around 80C at 4.2Ghz. I wouldn't worry about your temps at what they are.
a b K Overclocking
December 31, 2013 9:49:38 AM

73c isn't bad at all for the 670, even 80c on cpu/gpu isn't bad, but you'd like to be under that. real conservative temps would be 75c or 70c and under, especially if its increasing case temps and affecting the temps of other things and causing stability/overclocking issues.
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