Core i7 temperatures HELP PLZ!

Nightmare365WJ

Nightmare365WJ

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I recently built my own system (and it didn't blow up!!! :) ) yay!! yet.. that's where this forum comes in. I applied my own thermal paste to the stock cooler. (I'm not overclocked) I was reading 71 degrees celsius at 25% load playing Black & White 2. I freaked out and wiped half the paste of as I figured it was insulating it. I played it again and it was about 58 celsius, is this okay? what are acceptable temperatures for it to operate and not die? Btw as a bonus i'm gonna buy a Thermalright 120 true copper cooler and a "liquid metal plate" instead of thermal paste. It says its 4lbs. 3 oz. is this too heavy to use on a vertical Asus P6t deluxe MOBO? If someone could answer these questions i would be very very happy, thank you.
 
Did you clean off the crappy thermal paste that came on the cooler before you applied your own?

If not you needed to do that first...then apply your own.

A small dot about a pea size is the right amount,I usualy spread it myself evenly.

I would reccomend getting that aftermarket cooler though,since i see you do plan on overclocking in the future with the 920@ TBA comment in your siggy :)
 
yes i did clean of the other paste and thank you for your help i just would like to know acceptable temps. to run it at and if this cooler is going to break my board cause its so heavy. I heard they run hot and i hope i didn't already almost fry my system.
 
Those temps are way too high for such small load.

I think you may have not seated the cooler properly.
Those stock Intel coolers are kind of a joke with the
plastic push pins.

Your cpu should not get much above 40c during normal
use, and you should NEVER let it get above 85c

The True Copper is a very heavy cooler, and it works well
(I've read) but will not give you significant perfomance gains
over the True 120, or the Noctua U12P.

If you get the Copper, you'd be best to make some sort of bracket that screws to the top of your case to take the weight off the board.
 
The datasheet says that on max power usage(130W) the temperature is 67.9 C.Normal CPU tem is around 43C.
 
don't get a true copper, it will warp your motherboard, unless you happen to be able to mount it horizontally, just get a true, or true black, and mx-2
 
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