i5 3550 Too high idle and load temperature?

[melandern]

I've recently discovored that my CPU might get too hot in load and middle-high in idle, so I'm just wondering what's normal for this CPU.

http://prntscr.com/1f9jo6 <--- Idle temp

http://prntscr.com/1f9jw9 <--- Load temp


Many thanks

 

[Novuake]

That is a little hot but not dangerous. I see you are overclocking it a bit? Multiplier x39?

 

[melandern]

Yup, forgot to say that, standard clock is 3,3 Ghz so maybe thats why its a bit too hot? Im also using the stock fan which I think is useless, time to get a new one

 

[Novuake]

Hahah well there you go. Your fine where you are, but a new cooler for a little longer CPU life is a very good idea.

Out of curiosity, what are your full specs and what did you do to get to a stable 3.9GHz OC?

Or was it just a multiplier increase?

 

[melandern]

Hehe ye, I assumed that

Specs:

Gigayte Z77-DS3H
8GB 1600 mhz RAM
Asus Geforce GTX 550 Ti DirectCU
Standard hard drive and cd-rom

Yes, it was just and multiplier increase, so far it's stable x)

 

[melandern]

And a Corsair 430 W PSU

 

[Novuake]

Hehe ye, I assumed that

Specs:

Gigayte Z77-DS3H
8GB 1600 mhz RAM
Asus Geforce GTX 550 Ti DirectCU
Standard hard drive and cd-rom

Yes, it was just and multiplier increase, so far it's stable x)

That is kind of cool, was hoping you have a B75 chipset. LOL.
Anyway, how long did you run prime95 or similar?

Have you tried playing with the bus speed? Although its not really suggested.

 

[melandern]

Haha, I'm not so into the motherboard and CPU market, just bought the motherboard because it was on sale together with the i5

Ran prime95 for about 25-30 mins, max temp 75-77. And playing with the bus speed aint funny, thought I blew up my computer last time I mixed with it, hehe xd

 

[Novuake]

Yeah, bus speed is no joke, with my GPU out I could do it decently, but as soon as you add something in the PCI-e slot, it just start becoming impossible on Ivy.

Unfortunately you can not go above x39 on a non-K CPU, but its still pretty cool.

 

[melandern]

Hehe ye, it fkn scares you when your computer starts, then dies, starts, then dies until you manually restart it and getting it too work

Yup, I know, doesnt mind me so much, I'm not an overclocking expert anyway Btw, thanks for the answers, I appreciate it much

 

[Novuake]

No problem. Was an interesting one at least, they are not always.

 

[melandern]

Haha, I see