CalebK

OH dear guys! That is some serious temperatures, you should consider cooking things on your motherboard... fresh waffles are always nice XP. Anyway turns out their is nothing to worry about! Stress test says a maximum of 61 Celsius which is within suggested range. Although the test did only run only 4/6 cores, so I guess in the unlikely event that I am using all of them the temperature might be a bit higher.

I am running a 5280k intel cpu, with a case with built in fans (Phanteks Enthoo Luxe), and a 2k rpm cooler master CPU fan (attached to the cpu with ameturely applied thermal paste) Anyway I noticed that today is quite hot in my house, I dont have a thermometer to measure it but it is almost intolerable. I began to wonder how my computer was doing under this heat and I went into my bios to find that my CPU was running at 45 celcius, which I understand to be a bit high for a cpu that hadnt had to do anything extreme that entire day. I began to worry "What if I tried to do something crazy on it like compressing a huge file, or playing a game with fancy graphics" would the resulting temperature form the increased workload be enough to damage my cpu? Is this a valid concern? How could I tell when this is happening in time to minimize damage?