7700k high temps?

[13mattw]

Hey guys, so I've had this built together for about a year and a half by now. However, I recently bought a 1440p 165hz ips acer predator monitor a month ago and obviously the gpu is bottlenecked. Anyhow, I've began to notice that my 7700k @ 4.8 ghz temps are running between 70 and 80C while running games like COD: BO3 and am a bit worried. Btw, the full specs are here: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/MattW18/saved/#view=Yg7M8d

 

[mdd1963]

70-80C at 4.8 GHz would be quite normal....for that processor at that clock speed, IMO....; in fact, given an AIO, frankly I'm surprised it's not 5c warmer...

However, as a GTX1060 is typically maxed out at 1080P by any processor at the i5-7500 and above, you could shave off a few degrees by simply keeping all core-MCE-enabled, but at semi-stock 4.5 GHz, and suffer little to no fame-rate loss. (I can't imagine what games a GTX1060 is capable of minimum 165 fps other than perhaps Quake3 at 1440P....)

 

[13mattw]

70-80C at 4.8 GHz would be quite normal....for that processor at that clock speed, IMO....; in fact, given an AIO, frankly I'm surprised it's not 5c warmer...

However, as a GTX1060 is typically maxed out at 1080P by any processor at the i5-7500 and above, you could shave off a few degrees by simply keeping all core-MCE-enabled, but at semi-stock 4.5 GHz, and suffer little to no fame-rate loss. (I can't imagine what games a GTX1060 is capable of minimum 165 fps other than perhaps Quake3 at 1440P....)

Oh, ok thanks, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't frying my cpu. And you'd be surprised by what this 1060 6gb can pump out. I currently run overwatch at 1440p (low graphics) at around 120 fps with g-sync so its not too bad. However, I do plan to upgrade to a 1080 ti this cyber monday. I just can't see giving an arm and a leg for "ray tracing" when its so undersupported at this point and has less cuda cores than the 1080ti.