Temp on old OC cpu?

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Miseryguts

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I'm running an i7 920 (DO) @ 3.8Ghz with a Noctua NH-D14 air cooler.. and have recently run MSI's afterburner monitoring/OSD whilst gaming in some of the more recent games.. Witcher 3, No Man's Sky etc my GTX 970 is running fine but according to a friend the 920 is running too hot hovering at around 70 degrees & I need to reduce the OC. I haven't had any performance issues & apart from the fans cranking up their volume everything seems fine otherwise.

Is he right?
 
Is that core temp or package temp?

I think the specs on the Intel site indicate TCASE 67.9°C on the heatspreader. If it's stable then I probably wouldn't worry about it.
 
I've never seen my i7 920 d0 @ 4.0ghz go over 70 degrees C under gaming load. I've seen it go over that in synthetic benchmarks, but I only have a Zalman ZNPS9900 on it. The D14 should be cooler than that... perhaps you can try reapplying your TIM to see if it'll go lower.
 
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Though of course its better to run your cpu as cool as possible, you will be surprised how much heat they can take. 70C is not so high and I doubt will much effect the lifespan of the chip, even if you ran it hot it would probably take years to die, you will most likely upgrade a long time before it dies.
 
Intel_man said:
I've never seen my i7 920 d0 @ 4.0ghz go over 70 degrees C under gaming load. I've seen it go over that in synthetic benchmarks, but I only have a Zalman ZNPS9900 on it. The D14 should be cooler than that... perhaps you can try reapplying your TIM to see if it'll go lower.
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Fealix Fuchs Greger said:
You could try and improve the case cooling or the thermal paste might be too dry, try giving it a nice new shiny coating of that sweet paste.
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^^

I replaced the thermal paste on my little brother's FX-6300 and the temps dropped about 5C with the stock cooler.
 
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