How high is too high? [Temperature]

[SNDJ14]

Hello! I'm running an i7-2600 and a GTX 750ti in my HTPC system. Temps hover around 70C for the CPU and around 65C for the GPU after 30mins of gaming. May I ask if this is normal and acceptable? Thanks!

[Slottr]

Gpu is fine, anything above like 85C would be worrying.

 

Cpu seems a little toasty

[TVwazhere]

4 minutes ago, SNDJ14 said:

Hello! I'm running an i7-2600 and a GTX 750ti in my HTPC system. Temps hover around 70C for the CPU and around 65C for the GPU after 30mins of gaming. May I ask if this is normal and acceptable? Thanks!

Yes and yes. 

 

As long as your temperatures are below 80ºC for either the CPU or GPU, you'll be perfectly fine. Some CPU's are safe to go above 90, so I use "below 80ºC" as a blanket safe range for most CPU/GPU hardware. Most have a specific temperature maximum, which can be around 85-94ºC depending on the chip. 

[Eduard the weeb]

when you start thinking about whether mike wazowski is winking or blinking and your having a serious conversation/debate about it.

 

Yeah your temps fine lol

[ARikozuM]

I use 90C as my "stop overclocking" point for both CPU and GPU, otherwise too high is completely subjective until you start throttling. 

[Ashiella]

12 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Yes and yes. 

 

As long as your temperatures are below 80ºC for either the CPU or GPU, you'll be perfectly fine. Some CPU's are safe to go above 90, so I use "below 80ºC" as a blanket safe range for most CPU/GPU hardware. Most have a specific temperature maximum, which can be around 85-94ºC depending on the chip. 

The 3570k is special and starts throttling at 105c... due to the toothpaste the guy i bought the pc from used for the cooler at 4.8ghz its about 88c, hits 91 on aida 64.

[knightslugger]

17 minutes ago, SNDJ14 said:

May I ask if this is normal and acceptable?

yes.

[NinJake]

That's not bad. Due to it being a HTPC I'm curious if there is decent airflow to the case or is it tucked away in a shelving unit somewhere? What cpu cooler do you have as well?

[Ace McPlane]

If those are your stress test temps for your CPU, that's fine. As long as it's under 80 degrees,

but if you're talking just normal under load temps.. those are a bit on the high side.

Even with my extremely aggressive overclock, they only get to 60 degrees under normal load for me. 77 degrees max in an Aida64 stress test.

 

Your GPU temps are 100% normal though.

 

Run an aida64 stress test with something like realtemp running in the background. Set an alarm to go off at 78 degrees in the settings. Watch it. Don't walk away. If the temps get above 80 degrees, stop the test immediately. If they stay under 80 degrees for about 10 minutes preferably more, you're fine.

Otherwise, reduce your overclock if you have one or buy a better cooling solution like a beefy air cooler or a 240mm AIO.

[SNDJ14]

I have 3 80mm fans in there for cooling. I'll try to reapply thermal paste to see if anything improves. Thanks for the inputs

[LogicalDrm]

1 hour ago, SNDJ14 said:

I have 3 80mm fans in there for cooling. I'll try to reapply thermal paste to see if anything improves. Thanks for the inputs

What are exact specs and how those fans are blowing? CPU is higher than what I would call normal. But it is normal if only have stock cooler.

[SNDJ14]

The fans are just cheap case fans I bought from a local computer store. Anyway, I re-applied thermal paste and temps hover at the low 60s for the CPU while high 50s for the GPU.