i5 4690k too hot?

[timendevries]

My i5 4690k with stock cooler gets 60+ degrees when playing csgo, i was wondering if thats too hot?
Also my pc crashes or restarts itself when playing games.
Sometimes after 1 second of playing games and sometimes after 30 minutes
If anyone could help me with this that would be great!

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

As soon as you start seeing 90 C, that's when you should start investigating better cooling options, and clean your case and fans. That's when the CPU starts to throttle, which means it's lowering the frequency to combat the temperature from rising. If it keeps rising despite throttling, it'll shut down to prevent damage to it. This usually happens around 100 C.

The crashes could be either your GPU driver shutting it down because it's getting too hot (CPU story above), or your PSU malfunctioning.

What's the rest of your specs?


All the best!

 

[timendevries]

As soon as you start seeing 90 C, that's when you should start investigating better cooling options, and clean your case and fans. That's when the CPU starts to throttle, which means it's lowering the frequency to combat the temperature from rising. If it keeps rising despite throttling, it'll shut down to prevent damage to it. This usually happens around 100 C.

The crashes could be either your GPU driver shutting it down because it's getting too hot (CPU story above), or your PSU malfunctioning.

What's the rest of your specs?


All the best!

Thanks for the reply!

PSU: Corsair CX 430
CPU:i5 4690k
MOBO: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition
Graphics: MSI 750 Ti Gaming
RAM:2x4 GB Kingston Hyper X 1600 Mhz
Storage:55GB KINGSTON SV300S37A60G (SSD)
238GB Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series (SSD)
465GB Hitachi HTS727550A9E364 (SATA)
Case:Corsair Carbide 200R

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Is the CPU overclocked?

 

[timendevries]

Is the CPU overclocked?

Woops, did not mean to pick that as the solution, how can I undo that?
And no, it's not overclocked with stock cooler

 

[Compuser10165]

Is the CPU overclocked?

Woops, did not mean to pick that as the solution, how can I undo that?
And no, it's not overclocked with stock cooler

It is a very strong possibility that your issue is from your PSU, as that is a very low quality one. I suggest to change it to a higher quality one as soon as possible. I suggest the EVGA GS/G2 series.
As for the temps, 60 celsius is more than fine for that cpu with a stock cooler.

 

[mrfungi]

60c is fine with the 4690k.

As for the random restarts etc, what OS are you running? If you're running windows 7, click the windows key bottom left, type in 'event viewer', go to custom views>administrative events and check for warnings/errors next to a timestamp when the crash/restart occurred. Click on those, copy (ctrl+c after highlighting text) and paste into here. It will give us some indication as to what's causing the crashing/restarts.

 

[timendevries]

Is the CPU overclocked?

Woops, did not mean to pick that as the solution, how can I undo that?
And no, it's not overclocked with stock cooler

It is a very strong possibility that your issue is from your PSU, as that is a very low quality one. I suggest to change it to a higher quality one as soon as possible. I suggest the EVGA GS/G2 series.

I'm probably getting a rx 480 and overclocking the i5 4690k with cm evo 212.

What psu do you recommend?

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Answer mrfungi's question first pleaes.

´XFX 550W or the Seasonic 520W, they're the same unit but different names. The XFX is typically cheaper though. Some Antec, some FSP, there are a lot to choose from, really depends what the prices are and where you're buying from.

However, I think this isn't related to your PSU as in it's weak, but either defective, or a lose power cable. Have you made sure the power cable is plugged in and isn't moving? Have you tried connecting the power cable directly from the wall socket to the PC, instead of an extender or surge protector if you use any?

 

[Wayfall]

Hi

Nope it is totally fine.
If the CPU goes to 90C it will throttle, ideally with that CPU under load you want 40-60C.

I have a i7 4790K (4 cores, 8 threads) with a Cooler Master EVO TX3 (with Noctua 92mm fan) and it gets 30C idle and 45-63C load.

 

[Compuser10165]

Is the CPU overclocked?

Woops, did not mean to pick that as the solution, how can I undo that?
And no, it's not overclocked with stock cooler

It is a very strong possibility that your issue is from your PSU, as that is a very low quality one. I suggest to change it to a higher quality one as soon as possible. I suggest the EVGA GS/G2 series.

I'm probably getting a rx 480 and overclocking the i5 4690k with cm evo 212.

What psu do you recommend?

I suggest waiting for RX 480 non-reference designs.
Some examples:
Anithing from the EVGA G2/GS line (I have an EVGA Sepernova G2 850):
550W: http://pcpartpicker.com/product/qYTrxr/evga-power-supply-220g20550y1
650W: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9q4NnQ/evga-power-supply-220g20650y1

Seasonic are good quality. This one is bronze certified but you get good quality:
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/nB3RsY/seasonic-power-supply-s12ii620bronze

 

[timendevries]

Answer mrfungi's question first pleaes.

´XFX 550W or the Seasonic 520W, they're the same unit but different names. The XFX is typically cheaper though. Some Antec, some FSP, there are a lot to choose from, really depends what the prices are and where you're buying from.

However, I think this isn't related to your PSU as in it's weak, but either defective, or a lose power cable. Have you made sure the power cable is plugged in and isn't moving? Have you tried connecting the power cable directly from the wall socket to the PC, instead of an extender or surge protector if you use any?

Hmm, haven't tried that yet, although i've been playing bf4 for over an hour now and no crashes yet, i switched my 2 rams position (maybe that helped?) xD

 

[timendevries]

60c is fine with the 4690k.

As for the random restarts etc, what OS are you running? If you're running windows 7, click the windows key bottom left, type in 'event viewer', go to custom views>administrative events and check for warnings/errors next to a timestamp when the crash/restart occurred. Click on those, copy (ctrl+c after highlighting text) and paste into here. It will give us some indication as to what's causing the crashing/restarts.

Im runnig windows 10 Pro

 

[timendevries]

Is the CPU overclocked?

Woops, did not mean to pick that as the solution, how can I undo that?
And no, it's not overclocked with stock cooler

It is a very strong possibility that your issue is from your PSU, as that is a very low quality one. I suggest to change it to a higher quality one as soon as possible. I suggest the EVGA GS/G2 series.

Im trying to go for a white/black build, the nzxt 550 watt psu, is that a good one, dont know the full name

I'm probably getting a rx 480 and overclocking the i5 4690k with cm evo 212.

What psu do you recommend?

I suggest waiting for RX 480 non-reference designs.
Some examples:
Anithing from the EVGA G2/GS line (I have an EVGA Sepernova G2 850):
550W: http://pcpartpicker.com/product/qYTrxr/evga-power-supply-220g20550y1
650W: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9q4NnQ/evga-power-supply-220g20650y1

Seasonic are good quality. This one is bronze certified but you get good quality:
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/nB3RsY/seasonic-power-supply-s12ii620bronze

 

[timendevries]

Hi

Nope it is totally fine.
If the CPU goes to 90C it will throttle, ideally with that CPU under load you want 40-60C.

I have a i7 4790K (4 cores, 8 threads) with a Cooler Master EVO TX3 (with Noctua 92mm fan) and it get 30C idle and 45-63C load.

Thanks!

 

[mrfungi]

If you type Event into the search box in Win10, it should come up with View Event Logs. Click on that, do as I mentioned before and it'll give you a run of events that have occurred in particular what happened to cause a crash with a timestamp. This will give some indication as to what has been going on.

 

[Msiebenaler]

Sorry I know this post is a little old, but I have the same CPU and mine gets even hotter.

I have my i5 4690k at stock settings (no overclocking) and it gets well over 70 Celsius when playing CSGO and whenever I play newer games (such as watch dogs 2) its over 80 Celsius.When I boot it up in the morning (from a cold start) it's around 40 to 50 Celsius already. That's way too hot for a cold start.

I have a stock cooler and just reapplied thermal paste in hopes of getting lower temps. Still didn't help.