Folding Temps

[Noob Builder]

So I downloaded Folding@home and I set the power to Full, my CPU is a i7-9700k with a beefy cooler but it is running between 77-79C and my GPU is running at 62C. Are these temps safe for say 30min at a time?

[Donut Dan]

General wisdom for modern CPUs seems to be that anything under 80 degrees Celsius is safe for long term operation. I recently added a fan to my case to make sure of this on my own setup.

[Noob Builder]

Just now, Donut Dan said:

General wisdom for modern CPUs seems to be that anything under 80 degrees Celsius is safe for long term operation.

Got it, thank you

[Keith S]

I have an MSI build with a z390 godlike mobo, CPU is a 9900k i9, 64gb of 3200mhz trident and 2 aorus extreme gtx 1080ti’s in sli. So I just downloaded folding and ran it wide open and it was crunching like a beast, with a predicted time to process the downloaded block 24min. I was running at 4.8gHz on the cpu. I have a deep cool castle aio and under usual operation the cpu barely ever gets above 65C Under load, but when I ran folding it ramped up to 90 c and held there between 90 and 94C. I only allowed it to run for a few minutes and stopped folding. My question is, if I run folding full blast, with an AIO should I be experiencing a temp as high as 94C? I have a 3 fan radiator and added an additional 3 fans for some push pull through the radiator..any input is welcome! Thank you in advance for your time.

[Esper22]

1 what thermal compound are you using?

2 are you sure the fan curve of the cpu fan is set to ramp to 100% and at what temp dose it hit 100%

3 any overclock and/or extra voltage applied for any reason? 

[Keith S]

Original thermal past that came with the aio pre pasted in place...and some over-clocking on the cpu through the bios....I wonder if I should have taken that oem thermal paste that came preinstalled on the aio block off and run my own beads of it..and turn off the overclocking on the cpu. No over volting. Base clock is 3.6 max is around 5.1gHz I was run at 4.72gHz on my last run. Something is def amiss I fell if I’m reaching temps like that.

[j1philli]

Temps look good! Thanks for joining!

[emain_ius]

Not sure if this is the right forum thread. But I am now folding with my Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 Super Windforce OC and my old beast 4790k at 4,4 Ghz OC on all cores! Going to run it non-stop as long as i can!

[Teriyaki.Handsome]

If you have PWM fans, be sure your fan controller is agreeing with core temps.  I have an Asus mobo, and MW monitor/ MSI say my cores are at 70C while the asus fan controller sees 50-60C.  I just adjusted the controller so that I am at 100% fan speed by the time I hit about 65C core (45-47asus monitoring).

[gmouz]

My ryzen 5 3600 is running on 8 threads at 4.2GHz, folding at 75-78 C with an LM240L Liquid cooler and Pulse RX 5700 at max 65 C.