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MrChavelo
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70 degrees is fine for a stock cooler. Probably could have redone the thermal paste but 70 is just fine.

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Hello

Quick question,

 

When playing Battlefield 3, my i3 4170 runs at 70 degrees using the stock cooler. Is this too high?

 

I built the pc yesterday, and I reseated the stock cooler because I thought I forgot to remove the plastic sheet under the copper (I know, dumb, there is no plastic sheet on the stock cooler).

However, I did not apply new thermal paste (the old paste was still wet, though)

 

Thanks,

 

Chav

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70 degrees is fine. I would however to look at maybe putting/getting some new thermal compound, as I do think the thermal conductivity between the cooler and the CPU have decreased, because of for example some air left in between. :)

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nope, 70C isn't too high. If your worried, get something cheap like a Cryorig C7/M9i and that'll do the job nicely.

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