Temperture Issues

[Godlik3]

Hey, I have some questions about my build and the temps I get while playing some higher end games at high graphics.

I have been playing Far Cry 3 and I noticed at the top of my case I could feel some warmth, so I used HWMonitor to check my tempertures. With my GPU fan running at about 40 or 50 percent, it was mid 60's the whole time. I checked my CPU temps and it was around mid 60's on each core. Are these tempertures okay? I use a stock cooler on my CPU and one fan in the case itself. Also, I have another fan but my motherboard only had a single slot for fans, any suggestions for how to fix this? If you guys need anymore data just say so.

Build-

i7 3770 at 3.4GHz
Sapphire Dual-X 7970
Seagate 2 TB
Kingston 8GB RAM
Carbide Series 300r Case

If this helps, I am running dual-monitor but I normally just have Skype or some other random program on the other monitor while I play on my main one.

Thanks!

 

[Charlie98]

Mid 60's is fine for a CPU under load.

If your mobo only has one plug (for the CPU fan, ostensibly...) you can just use a Molex jumper to power the case fan(s.)

 

[z1ggy]

Sounds fine. Under heavy load I game at around 60-70C on my GPU and slightly lower on my CPU.

 

[Godlik3]

Oh, alright. I am fine with those GPU temps cause if they get higher I can easily turn up the GPU fan itself. But when I was playing, I touched the top of my case (above the CPU, it has a metal grate so heat comes out easily) I could feel some warmth, so I got a little worried. But yeah, the temp was around 64-67 degrees celsius.

What would be a dangerous hear for my CPU anyways?

 

[Charlie98]

You can do some testing to see where your CPU tops out at... I use LinX, others use Prime and such. I get nervous when my CPU temps get above 85C or so.

 

[darlasxm54]

What would be a dangerous hear for my CPU anyways?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

What would be a dangerous hear for my CPU anyways?

Those processors will throttle back at 100C (the so-called "TJunction" temperature or thermal limit) to keep from destroying themselves.

You mention nothing about over-clocking, and this spec and temperature monitoring are usually a greater focus of OC'ers. There is also an Intel spec for a temperature known as TCase, which is as much to say the temperature at the center of the processor IHS. The spec I saw for my SB-K chip and generation preceding your IB 3770 was 74C. This spec is only a guideline for case cooling, and is usually in some range between 5 and 10+C degrees lower than an average of the individual core temperatures which you say are around 60C. That is to say, the equivalent TCASE is probably 50C give or take, so you're operating at about 20C below the TCASE SPEC, and ~40C below the throttling limit.

You can still improve cooling for your system with an aftermarket top-end heat-pipe cooler (or AiO water-cooling or custom water cooling).

I always say the trick for a great computer is to use a minimum number of fans to get the best internal cooling. If you need or want more fans, and IF your single motherboard fan-header is a PWM plug, you can get a PWM splitter or a Swiftech 8W-PWM-SPL $10 device which connects to that header, controls all PWM fans connected to it through the thermal-control features of the BIOS and mobo software, but powers the fans directly from the PSU.