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this photo is from the rig in my sig

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the cpus at around 33c or so. while running wprime (one of the few apps i could find that could load 8 cores) the highest i saw on a core is 60C. however during the intel burn test i saw cores in the 70s after two loops and stopped it, which is quite high, and is actually above intel's spec. anything i could do to lower the temps a bit?

the fan over the memory is an intake (i was trying to get positive pressure). i have two exhausts at the top but they're hard to see in the photo. the spring with the manila folder in the middle is an attempt to route the air through the main part of the heatsinks. i used to have another 120 fan on the opposite end of the heatsink, but i had to remove it to make room for the pvc elbow.
 
cores in the 70s after two loops and stopped it, which is quite high, and is actually above Intel's spec.
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I think the database rollback killed your new sig as it references a Phenom.

You are confusing Tc (Tcase) given on the abbreviated Intel CPU product spec page with core temps reported by the embedded Digital Temp Sensor in the die. Two completely different things. Not going to rehash 5000 previous posts. For core temps as provided by the Coretemp or Realtemp programs there is nothing to worry about until your core temps get in the mid to upper 80's and you still are not near the point where the CPU thinks it is hot -erroneously called Tjmax (typically 95C or greater depending on the CPU). http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=478 Then several deg C (undocumented but assumed to be 10-15C greater) above this Tjmax point is the catastrophic thermal trip point, where catastrophic means a catastrophic failure of the CPU cooling system not the CPU itself, the CPU will just shutdown and protect itself (but not something many of us wish to test).

So, it never hurts and is even fun to experiment trying to run lower temps, I have no specific recommendations but you are not even near any point where the life or reliability of your CPU is compromised.
 
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