Thermal Throttle Temp.??

[infiniteCurse]

Hey just recently settled in on my overclock and what not. stable at 4.8 with 1.250 volts. Also I have a H100i v2 with the arctic silver 5 thermal paste. Curious at what temp does the 8700k thermal throttle itself? Sure im nowhere near it but im just wondering. Isnt around like 80-85c or something?

[Enderman]

90-100C

You can safely go up to 85C no problem.

[Foul]

Spikes of just over 90c and a max "common" temp of around 80c would be ok. Most overclockers are happy if they hit mid 80's running aida64, so those values I mentioned are conservative.

You can improve the temps some by having a higher airflow in to the case. This pushes the air out the path of least resistance, which in your case would be the radiator.

Consider if you got the thermal paste right. Your temps are not a problem, so you probably got it right. But too much thermal paste is such a common mistake. I recently swapped from Arctic Silver to Kryonaut and that dropped it around 2 degrees.

[Toysrme]

Thermal throttle for Skylake, Kabylake and Coffeelake is 100c.

[infiniteCurse]

Awsome, im not even in the ballpark haha. I tried 4.9 with 1.300 volts awhile back and only saw highest 80c. It would seem i kind of won the Silicon Lottery.....well i hope anyway