Did I fail at thermal pasting?

[CbrosTheDude]

I just built my first tower PC by myself and I wonder how well I did at applying thermal paste.

I have an i7 7700k with Hyper 212x (for budget). Although I do not intend to overclock for now, the CPU package gets 38°C-50°C when doing basic tasks (intenet mostly as GPU isn't here yet) and reaches 65°C sometimes. AIDA64 stress test brings it to peaks of 78°C for only one core.

The case is well ventilated/open most of the time and ambient temp under 20°C, I use Arctic MX-2 compound.

 

Should I redo the whole cooler instalation?

[Bananasplit_00]

78C isnt bad, only worry when it starts getting above 85C, max safe temp is acording to Intel 100C

[SpaceGhostC2C]

Temps seem fine to me.

[Theguywhobea]

Those temps look fine for a Hyper 212

[Lennart van de Merwe]

3 minutes ago, CbrosTheDude said:

I just built my first tower PC by myself and I wonder how well I did at applying thermal paste.

I have an i7 7700k with Hyper 212x (for budget). Although I do not intend to overclock for now, the CPU package gets 38°C-50°C when doing basic tasks (intenet mostly as GPU isn't here yet) and reaches 65°C sometimes. AIDA64 stress test brings it to peaks of 78°C for only one core.

The case is well ventilated/open most of the time and ambient temp under 20°C, I use Arctic MX-2 compound.

 

Should I redo the whole cooler instalation?

Those temps are fine

 

[CbrosTheDude]

Thanks for quick answers, calming my overworried instincts. Great community here

[Legolessed]

9 minutes ago, CbrosTheDude said:

I just built my first tower PC by myself and I wonder how well I did at applying thermal paste.

I have an i7 7700k with Hyper 212x (for budget). Although I do not intend to overclock for now, the CPU package gets 38°C-50°C when doing basic tasks (intenet mostly as GPU isn't here yet) and reaches 65°C sometimes. AIDA64 stress test brings it to peaks of 78°C for only one core.

The case is well ventilated/open most of the time and ambient temp under 20°C, I use Arctic MX-2 compound.

 

Should I redo the whole cooler instalation?

You obviously just need to go liquid nitrogen cooling?? 7700ks run pretty hot so that isn’t bad. It never hurts to check your thermal paste application but I wouldn’t worry about it. 

[CrippledROBOT]

The i7 7700k as well as the overclockable Coffee Lake lineup run HOT. As stated by @Bananasplit_00, If you're crossing 85c, something else is going on (poor air flow, excessive voltages), etc. Even sitting in the 80s, though at max load, isn't awesome, but it isn't the end of the world and Intel rates their systems to handle up to 100c.