normal cpu temp on intel fan

[guavaball]

I'm building a PC for a friend and he wanted to save money by going with the standard intel heatsink.

Just fired it up for the first time and the mobo is saying is 70C with the door off! Is this normal or should I say safe?

 

[defaultluser]

I'm building a PC for a friend and he wanted to save money by going with the standard intel heatsink.

Just fired it up for the first time and the mobo is saying is 70C with the door off! Is this normal or should I say safe?

Two or four cores?

Ambient temperature?

Load, or idle?

If it's two cores, I would be worried, but Haswell quad cores are notorious for their high power consumption and terrible TIM in between the core and heat spreader.

Intel coolers are enough for the dual-core models, and just adequate (i.e will keep you below TJmax) for the quads.

With a customized fan profile mine is silent at full load on my i3 3225, but that's in a 70F house. Wouldn't be possible if it was 110F in my house instead : )

 

[horrorshow]

70c is pretttty high....

I never even hit 60c at full load using Prime95.

 

[guavaball]

its a 4 core i5. I'm going to pick up a Cooler Master Hyper T2 Compact heatsink. Just doing updates it hit 95+ on the cores looking at coretemp

Thanks for the help guys.

 

[defaultluser]

You might not have seated the cooler properly then. Normally people only report temps that high when running prime 95.

I've seen more normal loaf temps in the 60 to 70 range

 

[cyclone3d]

The stock Intel coolers are super crappy.

They have used the same exact design since the days of the P-IV and it was a piece of crap back then.

I have seen similar temps on older i7 CPUs when just doing updates. I shudder to think how much they temp throttle when actually doing something processor intensive.