Safe temps?

[Platinum]

I know i7's get warm but this seems a little much?



Dabbling with overclocking the chip, BLK set to 160, Memory to 1600MHz with 1.64V.
Cooled with a Ultra 120 extreme.

[t4ct1c47]

I have heard of people claiming that temperatures in the 90*C range are fine for i7 processors. However, I would try to avoid letting yours go that high if I were you. All I can say from my own experience is that I've been running my own i7 920 a 4.0Ghz for the past year now and temperatures never go above 82*C when all four cores are under load. However, I do have HyperThreading disabled as this lowers the voltage requirements of the CPU, and thermal output.

[GoNz0]

those temps are fine, if its stable run with it !

[Jay]

You'll be fine. It may shorten the life of the CPU by 0.00001%

Just watch out in summer when its loaded and the graphics card is also loaded

[Phage]

Not too bad actually.
I run mine at 3.8Ghz and see 44C idle and 79c at 100%. A touch lower now in winter. before I put the heating on it was 38-72.

[collettnj]

That looks a bit toasty to me (though probably not an issue for the CPU as others have said) - I run my i7 920 D0 at 4GHz (1.28V in bios, CPU-Z shows 1.272 under load in Prime95). 199 x 20

Cooler is a TRUE 120 Rev. C, lapped with MX-2 thermal paste.

My temps after a night of Prime95 get to ~67 on the hottest core and ~62 on the coolest. Hyperthreading disabled, though, I'd guess my temps would be into the 70s with it enabled.

[LuckyNV]

If it was a 4GHz OC Id' say it looks on the money, at only 3.3GHz I do agree its rather toasty given the heatsink used