i7 7700k safe??

[✪Lukaasikus]

Hello! So I just bought a new CPU i7-7700K, but when at heavy load it's at 80-90 C. When i'm idle it's at 40-50 C. Is this safe? Thanks

[flibberdipper]

You're getting pretty damn close to thermal limit, so not really safe. What cooler are you using, exactly?

[mynameajeff]

What do you have for a cooler?

[manikyath]

that looks like you managed to do something wrong with your cooler, or are usig a sub-par cooler.

 

wether you're gonna fry it.. phighly unlikely, but not quite good practisce either

[✪Lukaasikus]

I have a arctic freezer 13

[McHox]

should be fine,if you're worried tho you should take a look at undervolting or get a better cooler

 

[flibberdipper]

10 minutes ago, ✪Lukaasikus said:

I have a arctic freezer 13

Yeah you DEFINITELY must have mounted it wrong.

[warlinty]

no man buy a rubber dont wanna have baby dies

[✪Lukaasikus]

3 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Yeah you DEFINITELY must have mounted it wrong.

Which way should I mount it?

[maartendc]

1 hour ago, ✪Lukaasikus said:

Which way should I mount it?

They mean the cooler is not making correct contact with the CPU likely. (likely due to not fastening the screws that attaches the cooler to the motherboard correctly).

 

Or you used not enough thermal paste.

 

Or you forgot to take the plastic protection foil off of the cooler before installing.

 

That being said, I don't think 80-90C is that much of a problem. The CPU will throttle itself to slow down before it would ever damage itself/. So the chance of damaging it is 0. Intel CPU's can function up to around 100C before they start to throttle.

 

Are you overclocking/overvolting it? In that case, 80-90C is not out of the ordinary, although ideally you want to stay around 75C or lower.

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, ✪Lukaasikus said:

Which way should I mount it?

Ideally you'd want it blowing right at the rear exhaust fan, but as it is it sounds like you didn't mount it properly or something.

[✪Lukaasikus]

22 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Ideally you'd want it blowing right at the rear exhaust fan, but as it is it sounds like you didn't mount it properly or something.

I did it now, hopefully it works better