Do downloading a massive game increase cup temp?

[ptptp10086]

So I just upgraded my system to i7 6700k and when I first started the system idle its at 20ish and when I started downloading the temp went 40-50 is this normal? I haven't tried to play any games yet because I'm downloading. I fear my cup would blow up when I play games

 

[ak47jar3d]

50 c is very low for a cpu. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[dangus]

well considering the fact that the cpu is in use when downloading then yes i would say this is quite normal. nothing to worry about

 

[Tradesman1]

It shouldn't jump 20+ degrees to simply download a file, what else is going on?

 

[PreevBR]

It shouldn't jump 20+ degrees to simply download a file, what else is going on?

Probably OP is using Origin to download these games, it has a common problem that when downloading games its CPU usage goes very high on some cores.

 

[Tradesman1]

That's possible, just a simply down load even of a large file should have little to no affect on CPU temps, if using a download manger (or something like that can actually tax the CPU a little, that's why I was asking if anything else going on/running 😉