high cpu temp.

[Johny2Fingers]

Hey. A question. Is it normal that my i5 4670 cpu goes up to 95-100C when Im livestreaming a game on twitch tv? The cores go around 95-100c while being under 70-90% load.

 

[DigitalHermit]

That's way too hot for an i5. Try checking the seating of the heatsink and don't forget to check for fan failure.

 

[Johny2Fingers]

Well, the game is quite cpu heavy and streaming has been known to take up a lot of cpu power. The thermopaste is totally new, like a week or so. You recon I should take the mobo out and check if the heatsink/fan pins are in all the way?
The cpu is right above the video card, which is quite large and also generates quite a lot of heat. No 90-100 a lot, but around 60C. I thought it might be because the hot air from my r9 270x goes up and the cpu just sucks it up and keeps cycling hot air without any fresh air coming in.

 

[Johny2Fingers]

The idle temps, when I have mostly chrome, skype and monitoring software open are around 33-38C.

 

[Outlander_04]

90 - 100 C is way too hot

Either you have way too much paste in there , or the cpu is not clamped down firmly , or the software you are using to report the temps is faulty .

Your BIOS should be throttling the cpu back so it never gets that hot . Why is that not happening?

 

[Johny2Fingers]

The first software I was using to check my cpu was sitting at a constant 120c. I got scared, turned the streaming off and waited for it to drop, it didnt, so I knew it was faulty. The second one is actually showing me proper temps.
I will lay off streaming till I find a solution for this problem. I know it should go this high.
I have no idea why bios isnt throttling it, but I might just take the mobo out and re-apply thermalpaste. I might of added too much I guess. I never know the proper amount.

 

[Johny2Fingers]

Wont let me edit the post. I mean should *not go that high!

 

[Johny2Fingers]

You got me wrong buddy. Im not watching a video. im streaming it. I use OBS - open broadcaster software to stream my screen to twitch servers, which then streams it further to the website itself, so others can view it. Thats why I mentioned that the game has been known to draw a bit of cpu. Why else would all 4 cores be at heavy load (70-95%). I am the one that streams, not the one that watches.
The fan is running properly. I just re-applied a new (thiner) layer of thermal paste (after cleaning off the old one ofcourse). I am going to test it under a heavy load of streaming 720p and the game running. Will post results.

 

[Johny2Fingers]

Cloth, ear cleaning cotton tip with some rubbing alchocol.
It actually was my fault. I think i had too much paste on it. Now, after re-applying the paste, cores hower around 60-70C at heavy load (70-95%).

 

[Outlander_04]

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90 - 100 C is way too hot
Your BIOS should be throttling the cpu back so it never gets that hot .

This is bull. We are not talking about an AMD chip here. Temperature limit for Haswell is 100°C, and that's where it does throttle, so everything is fine from that perspective. The question is why the chip gets that hot in the first place.

The temperature itself is not much of an issue for Haswell, the throttling is what you do nto want to happen for obvious reasons.

Note that 100°C can be reached under heavy load, but that should require running Prime95 torture test on all cores, not watching a simple twitch.tv video. Check your cooling. If all else fails, you can resort to de-lidding your CPU. That is a procedure that requires effort and is not entirely free of risk, but will definitely bring down your core temperatures big time.

I have never seen any AMD cpu hit anything like 100C , but that is only one of the things you know nothing about .

Intels cpu's should begin throttling when they hit TDP . You would expect that to be well before the OP's reported temps .

 

[Outlander_04]

Cloth, ear cleaning cotton tip with some rubbing alchocol.
It actually was my fault. I think i had too much paste on it. Now, after re-applying the paste, cores hower around 60-70C at heavy load (70-95%).

The thing about paste is that its designed to fill microscopic pores and unevenness . The trick is to use as little as possible because it never conducts heat as well as metal to metal contact would . Its just a case of being better than an air gap .

60 -70 C is about right . And using isopropyl alcohol was also the correct thing to use to clean up