Sean O’Hare,
On behalf of Tom's Moderator Team, welcome aboard!
What is your ambient (room) temperature?
The international standard for "normal" room temperature is 22°C or 72°F. All computer temperatures increase and decrease with ambient temperature.
Here's the nominal operating range for Core temperature:
Core temperatures above 85°C are not recommended.
Core temperatures below 80°C are ideal.
“Stress” tests vary widely and can be characterized into two categories;
stability tests which are
fluctuating workloads, and
thermal tests which are
steady workloads.
Utilities that don't
overload or
underload your processor will give you a valid thermal baseline. Here’s a comparison of utilities grouped as
thermal and
stability tests according to % of TDP, averaged across six processor Generations at stock settings rounded to the nearest 5%:
Although these tests range from
70% to 130% TDP workload, Windows Task Manager interprets every test as
100% CPU Utilization, which is processor resource activity,
not actual workload.
Core temperatures respond directly to Power consumption (Watts), which is driven by workload.
As you can see from the scale ...
CineBench R20 is about 100% workload.
FurMark CPU Burner is about 85% workload.
AIDA64 individual CPU test is about 70% workload.
These differences in workloads account for the differences in Core temperatures you monitored, where FurMark CPU Burner max'd out at about 81°C and 117 Watts.
Keep in mind that AIDA64 has 4 CPU related stress test selections (CPU, FPU, Cache, Memory) which have
15 possible combinations that yield
15 different workload conditions and Core temperatures.
At the top of our Forums are "Stickies" which are information resources that are permanently "stuck" in place so they're always available for everyone's benefit. At the top of our CPUs Forum is a Sticky you might want to read:
Intel Temperature Guide.
Once again, welcome aboard!
CT