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    Question High temps with new watercooing setup (i7 7700K)

    Hi, I've just recently got a small upgrade, I was hitting 90°C on stock clocks on the i7 7700k with a Cryorig H7 (when i initially bought it, it wouldn't go above 80°C on stock clocks.) in the XTU stress test and IntelBurnTestV2, sometimes high 80s in games like EFT. Whilst this might be...
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    Question i7 870 too hot

    I have an old i7 870 with an altered 320 stock psu paired with a sapphire rx560 4gb on stock heatsink the temps gradually go on increasing and it turns off after around 2 hours at temps exceeding 90 degrees what could possibly be the reason is my psu too low ? or is it the stock cooler? what...
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    Question i7 5960x running hot

    Hi, this is my first post here ever, so I'm sorry if it's jumbled or in the correct order. I've got a i7 5960x that I recently OC'd to 3.7ghz using OC Genie 4 (Since I for some reason can't manually overclock it using bios.) paired with a H115i Cooler. Without the OC at stock 3.0ghz, this cpu...
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    Question A Professional Overclocked my i7 3770k @ 3.5GHZ to 4.2GHZ, It is hitting 100deg celsius in rainbow in under 30 seconds

    I am a noob with PC's and i took my PC to get a look at once i bought it. The other day i noticed that when i played Rainbow Six Siege, it crashed after a minute. I went into task manager's performance tab and saw that the Speed of the CPU was at 5.02 GHZ and that the utilisation went up to...